Books to Read during Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month by jumping into one of these books – all of these materials (and many, many more) can be found in our collections. If you can’t find something you’re looking for in our catalog, let us know and we will be happy to get it for you through InterLibrary Loan.

Non-Fiction

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World by Rachel Swaby

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

The Hello Girls: American’s First Woman Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box by Angela P. Dodson

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda R. Hirsman

Biographies

Ho Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Upwards: The Story of the First Woman to Solo Thru-Paddle the Northern Forest Canoe Trail by Laurie Apgar

Brave by Rose McGowan

A Woman on Paper: Georgia O’Keeffe by Anita Pollitzer

Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

A Short History of Women: A Novel by Kate Walbert

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Children’s

The Brave Harriet: The First Woman to Fly the English Channel by Marissa Moss

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton

Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison

Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh

 

 

 

 

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