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Women's History Month (March)

Reading Lists

25 Women Writers to Read Before You Die
From Powell's Bookstore
The Women Who Shaped the Past 100 Years of American Literature
From Smithsonian Magazine
Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books by Award-Winning Female Authors
24 Popular Books By Women Writers from Around the World

Non-Fiction (print)

Women & power : a manifesto

Stand up and shout out : women's fight for equal pay, equal rights, and equal opportunities in sports

Sex matters : how male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it

Beauty sick : how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and women Engeln, Renee, author.

Violence against women

The war on women in the United States : beliefs, tactics, and the best defenses

The feminist revolution : the struggle for women's liberation

American women's history : a very short introduction

Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story

Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Women who rock : Bessie to Beyoncé, girl groups to riot grrrl

Women heroes of the American Revolution : 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue

Faking it : the lies women tell about sex--and the truths they reveal

The #MeToo movement

Abetting batterers : what police, prosecutors, and courts aren't doing to protect America's women

Asking for it : the alarming rise of rape culture--and what we can do about it

To have and to hold : motherhood, marriage, and the modern dilemma