Women’s History Books

Here it is, the annual updated list of women’s history books. One for each day of the month. Maybe even the year. Enjoy!

Nonfiction for Teens and Adults

Rejected Princesses and Tough Mothers by Jason Porath

100 Bad Girls Throughout History and Revolutionary Women by Ann Shen

Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee

Dead Feminists by Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson

She Represents by Caitlin Donohue

Forgotten Women: The Leaders, The Artists, The Writers and The Scientists by Zing Tsjeng

League of Extraordinarily Funny Women by Sheila Moeschen

Renegade Women in Film and TV by Elizabeth Weitzman

Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Dynamic Dames by Sloan DeForest

Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams

In Praise for Difficult Women by Karen Karbo

The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant and Dangerous Women from History by Erika Own

Thrill Seekers, Idea Makers, Quake Chasers, Animal Allies, High Flyers, Film Makers, Problem Solvers, Food Stars, Music Mavens and Climate Champions by Ann McCallum Staats

She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics by Betsy Gomez, presented by The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson

We are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai

Extraordinary Mothers and Daughters: Stories of Ambition, Resilience and Unstoppable Love by Emily Friedenrich

Girls Who Green the World and Girls Who Run the World by Diane Knapp

Unsung Heroines of the Holocaust by Sarah Silberstein Swartz

Jane Against The World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Laura Marino

Women Heroes of WW2 and Women Heroes of WW2: The Pacific Theater by Kathryn Atwood

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Mari K. Eder

The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Beyond the Call by Eileen Rivers

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow

First Things First: Women Who Changed Hip-Hop by Nadirah Simmons

Girls to the Front by Nina Mata

Behind Every Great Man by Marlene Geller-Wagerman

A Women’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms Who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia and Stef Ferrari

Women vs History by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams

Nonfiction for Kids

Grandes Dreamers by Argelia Atilano and Anna Alvarado

Native Women Changing Their Worlds by Patricia Cutright

In the Line of Fire: Eight Women War Spies by George Sullivan

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli

100 Real Life Tales of Black Girl Magic edited by Lily Workneh

100 Inspiring Young Changemakers edited by Jess Harriton

Women in Science, Women in Sports, and Women in Arts by Rachel Ignotofsky

Anathology of Amazing Women by Sandra Lawrence

Bad Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple

Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Women A-Z, and Rad Girls Can by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klien Stahl

Girl Squad, and Wonder Women by Sam Maggs

The Girl Who Rode a Shark: And Other Stories of Daring Women by Aisla Ross

The Book of Awesome Women by Becca Anderson

America’s First Ladies by Kathleen Krull

Women of the Pine Tree State by Andrea Murphy

Vanished!: Seven Female Magicians Who Disappeared by Anna Hays

Nice Jewish Girls by Julie Merberg

Women Who Changed the World by Laurie Calkhoven

Leyendas by Monica Mancillas

Anathologies

Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices by Masuma Ahuja
Because I was a Girl edited by Melissa de la Cruz

Black Girls Rock edited by Beverly Bond

Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America edited by Amy Reed

Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope and Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama Adminstration

#NotYourPrincess edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

Imagining Ourselves edited by Paula Goldman

You Too edited by Janet Gurtler

Academics

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained by Maya Rodale

Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation by Amy Davis

Reproductive Justice by Dr. Loretta Ross

Comics

Femme Magnifique by various

Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu 

Amazons, Abolitionists and Activists by Mikki Kendall and A. D’Amico

Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised their Voices and Changed the World from Kazoo Magazine

YA Fiction

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Shut In by Kody Keplinger

Does My Body Offend You by Cuevas Mayra and Marie Marquardt

Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Tyranny of Petticoats and The Radical Element by various

Smash the Patriarchy by Marta Breen

If I Go Missing by Brianna Joannie

Memoirs

Rita by Rita Moreno

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Doctor is In by Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Finding My Way by Malala Yousafazi

I want to be where the normal are by Rachel Bloom

Americanized by Sara Saedi

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

Dear Girls by Ali Wong

Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad

My Diary by Lesley Arfin

The Woman I Wanted to Be by Diane von Fergstenburg

A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern

A Time for Hope by Sanna Marin

We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

Dolly trilogy by Dolly Parton

Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker

Yours, Cruelly by Cassandra Peterson

The World of Nancy Kwan by Nancy Kwan

Defying China by Tsultrim Dolma

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