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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,
    BookNew York : Pegasus Books, 2025. — Biography B Tub
  • When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

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

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

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

    An Intimate History of Black Feminism

    Jackson, Jenn M.,
    BookNew 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),
    BookNew York : Crown, 2024. — Biography B Bid
  • The Bluestockings

    a History of the First Women's Movement

    Gibson, Susannah,
    BookNew 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,
    BookNew 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-
    BookNew 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
    BookNew York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — History 391.63 Bur
  • Shine Bright

    a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

    Smith, Danyel,
    BookNew 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-
    BookNew 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
    BookNew 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
    BookPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019] — History 324.623 Lem
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

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

    the Adventures of Older Women in America History

    Collins, Gail,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, of Hachette Book Group, 2019. — History 305.42 Col
  • The Barbizon

    the Hotel That Set Women Free

    Bren, Paulina,
    BookNew 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,
    eBookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]