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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