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Women in History

November 14, 2023

Browse below to find both fiction and nonfiction tales based on the real stories of many amazing women who have existed throughout time. Throughout history, many women’s stories were treated as less important than their male counterparts’. Books like these remind us of the fundamental awesomeness of humanity in all its shapes and sizes!

Fiction

The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegal

The Collector’s Daughter by Gill Paul

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Great Mrs. Elias by Barbara Chase-Riboud

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The Prophet’s Wife by Libbie Grant

The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley

The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal by Bryn Turnball

Nonfiction

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

The Book of Gutsy Women by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire Lisa Evans

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance edited by Alexis Greene

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Rameriz

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin

Girls Rule: A Collection of Women Who Defied Social Standards by Chiara Pasqualetti Johnson

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak 

Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation by Mindy Johnson

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Massachusetts Women by Lura Rogers Seavey

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Pandora’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown

The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists by Jean H. Baker

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil Warby DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier by Lael Morgan

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler

Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker

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