2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
4. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,369 ratings 
7. 
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
by:
Scaachi Koul
3.73 avg rating — 13,463 ratings 8. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,155 ratings 9. 
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (Washington Mews Books)
by:
Johanna Neuman
3.65 avg rating — 173 ratings 9. 
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by:
Reni Eddo-Lodge
4.38 avg rating — 99,859 ratings 
12. 
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
by:
Lauren Elkin
3.58 avg rating — 4,031 ratings 
15. 
The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism
by:
Anna Fields
3.46 avg rating — 100 ratings 
17. 
All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
by:
Alana Massey
3.65 avg rating — 2,099 ratings 17. 
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by:
Sujatha Gidla
3.80 avg rating — 2,557 ratings 19. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,412 ratings 20. 
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by:
Annie Spence
3.76 avg rating — 11,057 ratings 21. 
Queens of the Conquest (England's Medieval Queens, #1)
by:
Alison Weir
3.83 avg rating — 2,922 ratings 
23. 
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 3.99 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
24. 
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by:
Cordelia Fine
3.79 avg rating — 3,504 ratings 25. 
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own 3.85 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
25. 
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,484 ratings
27. 
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
by:
Carina Chocano
3.89 avg rating — 1,613 ratings 28. 
#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens
by:
Lori Perkins
3.76 avg rating — 250 ratings 29. 
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At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women
by:
Jennifer Reeder
4.55 avg rating — 381 ratings 32. 
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
by:
Manjula Martin
3.79 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 32. 
The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth
by:
Julie Bindel
4.08 avg rating — 209 ratings 32. 
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America 4.11 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas 3.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
38. 
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
by:
Laura Shapiro
3.27 avg rating — 4,777 ratings 
40. 
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
42. 
Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond
by:
Erika Schelby
3.87 avg rating — 322 ratings 
44. 
Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory
by:
Lydia Reeder
3.75 avg rating — 1,975 ratings 
48. 
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by:
Katy Tur
3.96 avg rating — 17,464 ratings 
50. 
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
by:
Leanda de Lisle
4.09 avg rating — 727 ratings 51. 
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
by:
Ayelet Waldman
3.96 avg rating — 5,106 ratings 
54. 
Chasing Light: Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer
by:
Amanda Lucidon
4.47 avg rating — 895 ratings 
59. 
A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy
by:
Sarah Lacy
3.96 avg rating — 461 ratings 60. 
61. 
Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women That Love Them
by:
Rhian E. Jones
3.59 avg rating — 291 ratings 
63. 
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure
by:
Lynn Comella
4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings 64. 
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
by:
Sarah Perry
4.15 avg rating — 5,237 ratings 65. 
A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
66. 
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by:
Amy Gary
3.61 avg rating — 2,329 ratings 67. 
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
by:
Kyo Maclear
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,436 ratings 67. 
Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
by:
Lisa E. Davis
3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings 
67. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
by:
Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 67. 
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
by:
Holly Tucker
3.60 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 
74. 
Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi
by:
Chloe Buckley
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
74. 
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
by:
Sabrina Mahfouz
3.71 avg rating — 1,374 ratings 74. 
Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength 4.29 avg rating — 306 ratings
74. 
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
by:
Pauline Dakin
3.49 avg rating — 2,289 ratings 
81. 
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by:
Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating — 10,392 ratings 
81. 
The Charming Predator: The True Story of How I Fell in Love with and Married a Sociopathic Fraud
by:
Lee Mackenzie
3.43 avg rating — 277 ratings 
88. 
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House 3.92 avg rating — 21,301 ratings
88. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,447 ratings 88. 
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
by:
Janina Hescheles
4.21 avg rating — 244 ratings 92. 
Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today
by:
Diane Wachtell
3.45 avg rating — 58 ratings 92. 
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,180 ratings
92. 
Inner Voices: My Journey with Psychosis and Schizophrenia
by:
May-May Meijer
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 95. 
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body
by:
Jessamyn Stanley
4.34 avg rating — 3,405 ratings 
95. 
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
by:
Leokadia Schmidt
4.37 avg rating — 1,462 ratings 
