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Women's History Month: Nonfiction Books

Recommended resources for reading and viewing in celebration of National Women's History Month.

Nonfiction

Founding Mothers: The Women who Raised our Nation

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

I am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

My Own Words

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign

Eleanor Roosevelt

A Fighting Chance

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

Wall Tappings: An Anthology of Writings by Women Prisoners

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space

Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Harriet Tubman : The Life and the Life Stories

Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Oprah: A Biography

Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports

Frida Kahlo

Bad Feminist: Essays

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

Charlotte Brontèˆ: A Fiery Heart

Marie Curie: A Life

Zelda: A Biography

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cleopatra: A Life

The Story of My Life

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

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