Check out one of these fascinating nonfiction books about remarkable women for Women’s History Month! Try one these or find more available through our collection.
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
– Post by Susie Rivera, Reference Specialist
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