biography, Fiction, historical fiction, history, Nonfiction

Noteworthy Women

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March is Women’s History Month. Celebrate and learn about the remarkable trailblazing heroines who have shaped the world with these reads. Curated by Ashley Lee.

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Nonfiction

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
by Debra Lee
The Six: The Untold Story of the First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush
On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time by Jo Bell
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics by Anastasia Curwood
Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels by Holly J. Carey
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
by Leah Broad
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cured Tuberculosis
by Maria Smilios
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by Kate Zernike
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence
by David Waldstreicher
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages,
through the Women wWitten Out of It
by Janina Ramirez
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
by Rebecca Roberts
When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World by Alexandra Allred
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
by Kristen Green
In On The Joke: The Original Queens
of Stand-Up Comedy
by Shawn Levy
The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
by Mari Eder

Historical Fiction

A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
by Gill Paul
La Espía
by Paulo Coelho
The Brightest Star
by Gail Tsukiyama
After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life
by Logan Steiner
The Women
by Kristin Hannah
The All-American
by Susie Finkbeiner
Canary Girls
by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Wharton Plot
by Mariah Fredericks

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