Book Awards100 Must-Read Titles About Women’s History

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Works (98)

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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven — not in English Common Knowledge
Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies) by Vina A. Lanzona — not in English Common Knowledge
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor — not in English Common Knowledge
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins — not in English Common Knowledge
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America by Dana Frank — not in English Common Knowledge
The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove by William Moran — not in English Common Knowledge
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan — not in English Common Knowledge
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India by Ritu Menon — not in English Common Knowledge
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie — not in English Common Knowledge
The Chalice and The Blade by Riane Eisler — not in English Common Knowledge
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli — not in English Common Knowledge
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner — not in English Common Knowledge
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) by Joyce A. Tyldesley — not in English Common Knowledge
Daughters of the Earth by Carolyn Niethammer — not in English Common Knowledge
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura — not in English Common Knowledge
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911 (African American Life) by Melba Joyce Boyd — not in English Common Knowledge
Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (Race and Culture in the American West Series, Vol. 4) by Shirley Boteler Mock — not in English Common Knowledge
Eva Peron by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz — not in English Common Knowledge
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery by Patrick Minges — not in English Common Knowledge
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown — not in English Common Knowledge
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe by Nwando Achebe — not in English Common Knowledge
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan — not in English Common Knowledge
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks — not in English Common Knowledge
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask — not in English Common Knowledge
Golda by Elinor Burkett — not in English Common Knowledge
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan — not in English Common Knowledge
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America by Kali Nicole Gross
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby — not in English Common Knowledge
A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom — not in English Common Knowledge
Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia (Decolonizing Feminisms) by Azza Basarudin — not in English Common Knowledge
Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska — not in English Common Knowledge
I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen by Phoolan Devi — not in English Common Knowledge
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman In Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú — not in English Common Knowledge
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses by National Museum of the American Indian — not in English Common Knowledge
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm — not in English Common Knowledge
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens by Simone Schwarz-Bart — not in English Common Knowledge
In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women?s History in Canada by Mary-Ellen Kelm — not in English Common Knowledge
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali — not in English Common Knowledge
Isabel Orleans-Bragança: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves by James Mcmurtry Longo — not in English Common Knowledge
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey — not in English Common Knowledge
It's Always Possible: One Woman's Transformation of India's Prison System by Kiran Bedi — not in English Common Knowledge
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter — not in English Common Knowledge
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso — not in English Common Knowledge
Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast Who Forever Changed America's Views About Women, Academics and Sports by Marie Krohn — not in English Common Knowledge
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady by Laura Tyson Li — not in English Common Knowledge
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) by Phyllis Birnbaum — not in English Common Knowledge
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker — not in English Common Knowledge
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee — not in English Common Knowledge
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende — not in English Common Knowledge
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (Gender and American Culture) by Lisa Tetrault
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados by Hilary McD. Beckles — not in English Common Knowledge
Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II by Bruce Myles — not in English Common Knowledge
Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports by Lissa Smith — not in English Common Knowledge
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman — not in English Common Knowledge
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman — not in English Common Knowledge
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height — not in English Common Knowledge
Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris — not in English Common Knowledge
Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank by Suha Sabbagh — not in English Common Knowledge
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi — not in English Common Knowledge
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere by Caroline P. Murphy — not in English Common Knowledge
Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman — not in English Common Knowledge
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson — not in English Common Knowledge
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber — not in English Common Knowledge
The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers — not in English Common Knowledge
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History... and Our Future! by Kate Schatz — not in English Common Knowledge
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin — not in English Common Knowledge
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jocelyn Olcott — not in English Common Knowledge
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson — not in English Common Knowledge
Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina by Rita Arditti — not in English Common Knowledge
The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley] by Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford — not in English Common Knowledge
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor — not in English Common Knowledge
Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam — not in English Common Knowledge
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach — not in English Common Knowledge
Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II by Maria Savchyn Pyskir — not in English Common Knowledge
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss — not in English Common Knowledge
Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma by Zoya Phan
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria — not in English Common Knowledge
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft — not in English Common Knowledge
The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival by Adhe Tapontsang — not in English Common Knowledge
Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains by Mark St. Pierre — not in English Common Knowledge
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser — not in English Common Knowledge
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich — not in English Common Knowledge
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India by Sarah Lamb — not in English Common Knowledge
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang — not in English Common Knowledge
The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia by Carola Oman — not in English Common Knowledge
Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers by K. Langloh Parker — not in English Common Knowledge
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia by Eric Jones — not in English Common Knowledge
Women & guerrilla movements : Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba by Karen Kampwirth — not in English Common Knowledge
Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller — not in English Common Knowledge
Women in Caribbean History: The British-colonised Territories by Verene Shepherd — not in English Common Knowledge
Women in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies — not in English Common Knowledge
Women of Korea : a history from ancient times to 1945 by Yung-Chung Kim — not in English Common Knowledge
Women on Ice: The Early Years of Women's Hockey in Western Canada by Wayne Norton — not in English Common Knowledge
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber — not in English Common Knowledge
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis — not in English Common Knowledge