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Women's History - 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. Because March is Women's History Month, these books may be of special interest in that month, but they are also worth reading at any time of the year.

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Faux Feminism

    Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

    Khader, Serene J.,
    Book, 2024Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, 2024. — History 305.42 Kha
  • 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
  • How to Be a Renaissance Woman

    the Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

    Burke, Jill, 1971-
    Book, 2024New York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — History 391.63 Bur
  • Book, 2023New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023] — Biography B Fri
  • 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
  • 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 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]
  • The Daughters of Kobani

    a Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

    Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach,
    Book, 2021New York : Penguin Press, [2021] — History 956.91 Lem
  • Confident Women

    Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

    Telfer, Tori,
    Book, 2021New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — History 305.42 Tel