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Women's History Month - Nonfiction

We've gathered a sampling of nonfiction titles, including memoir and biography, to highlight the experiences and perspectives of women throughout history and across the globe. March is Women's History Month, but these books are worth reading all year.

Princeton Public Library

58 items

  • Harriet Tubman

    Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary : From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore

    Wiesen, Jean Marie,
    Book, 2025New York : Pegasus Books, 2025. — Biography B Tub
  • When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

    Satow, Julie,
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, 2024. — Business & Career 381.141 Sat
  • Inventing the Modern

    Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art

    Book, 2024New York NY : Museum of Modern Art, 2024. — Arts 708.147 Inv
  • Black Women Taught Us

    An Intimate History of Black Feminism

    Jackson, Jenn M.,
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, 2024. — Literature 305.488 Jac
  • American Woman

    the Transformation of the Modern First Lady, From Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

    Rogers, Katie (Journalist),
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, 2024. — Biography B Bid
  • The Bluestockings

    a History of the First Women's Movement

    Gibson, Susannah,
    Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — History 305.42 Gib
  • The Sinners All Bow

    Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

    Dawson, Kate Winkler,
    Book, 2025New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025. — History 364.152 Daw
  • Immaculate Forms

    a History of the Female Body in Four Parts

    King, Helen, 1957-
    Book, 2025New York : Basic Books, 2025. — History 305.409 Kin
  • How to Be a Renaissance Woman

    the Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

    Burke, Jill, 1971-
    More like this: The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
    Book, 2024New York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — History 391.63 Bur
  • Shine Bright

    a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

    Smith, Danyel,
    Book, 2021New York : Roc Lit 101, 2021. — Performing Arts 782.421 Smi
  • Wild Girls

    How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

    Miles, Tiya, 1970-
    Book, 2023New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] — History 305.409 Mil
  • A Woman's Place

    the Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms Who Changed the World With Food

    Ahluwalia, Deepi,
    More like this: Women in the Kitchen by Anne Willan
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — Cooking 641.092 Ahl
  • More like this: The Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss and Votes for Women! by Winifred Conkling
    Book, 2019Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019] — History 324.623 Lem
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

    Hall, Rebecca, 1963-
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — Arts 741.5 Hal
  • No Stopping Us Now

    the Adventures of Older Women in America History

    Collins, Gail,
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, of Hachette Book Group, 2019. — History 305.42 Col
  • The Women's House of Detention

    a Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

    Ryan, Hugh, 1978-
    Book, 2022New York : Bold Type Books, [2022] — History 365.43 Rya
  • The Barbizon

    the Hotel That Set Women Free

    Bren, Paulina,
    Book, 2021New York : Simon and Schuster, 2021. — History 305.409 Bre
  • The Women's History of the Modern World

    How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

    Miles, Rosalind,
    eBook, 2021New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]