Biographies of Women, by Women
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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
by:
Cynthia Chin-Lee
4.23 avg rating — 405 ratings 99. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating — 21,528 ratings 99. 
Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Gayle F. Wald
4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings 105. 
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Rosa Parks (Volume 9) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 7)
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Lisbeth Kaiser
4.39 avg rating — 1,123 ratings 109. 
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 109. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,208 ratings 
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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Anne Sebba
3.44 avg rating — 4,656 ratings 115. 
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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Michelle Dean
3.42 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 120. 
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Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic
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Mara Rockliff
4.17 avg rating — 732 ratings 120. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
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Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings 120. 
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Who Says Women Can't Be Computer Programmers?: The Story of Ada Lovelace
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Tanya Lee Stone
3.79 avg rating — 215 ratings 
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Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
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Joyce Scott
4.39 avg rating — 142 ratings 
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
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Nathalia Holt
4.18 avg rating — 3,183 ratings 131. 
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children
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Clare Mulley
3.66 avg rating — 130 ratings 
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,451 ratings 134. 
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A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
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Linda Ambrose
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 134. 
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
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Paula Byrne
4.03 avg rating — 1,761 ratings 
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
by:
Laura Shapiro
3.27 avg rating — 4,779 ratings 147. 
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess
by:
Susan Morgan
3.42 avg rating — 104 ratings 147. 
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
by:
Jeanette Winter
4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 147. 
An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher
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Anne Zimmerman
3.55 avg rating — 219 ratings 147. 
After the War: Women in Physics in the United States
by:
Ruth H. Howes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Boswell Legacy: The Story of the Boswell Sisters of New Orleans and the New Music They Gave to the World
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Kyla Titus
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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Claire L. Evans
3.93 avg rating — 2,439 ratings 158. 
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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Leslie P. Peirce
3.77 avg rating — 744 ratings 158. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
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Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings 158. 
Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr.
by:
Leslie Zemeckis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 85 ratings 
162. 
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
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Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,061 ratings 
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Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers
by:
Leslie Bennetts
3.59 avg rating — 755 ratings 162. 
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
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Ashley Dartnell
4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings 162. 
Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
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Gerri Hirshey
3.69 avg rating — 353 ratings 
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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans 3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
by:
Barbara Leaming
4.04 avg rating — 1,103 ratings 
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
by:
Brooke Hauser
3.65 avg rating — 254 ratings 
189. 
Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
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Stacy A. Cordery
3.80 avg rating — 428 ratings 
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A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
by:
Loretta Smith
4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings 193. 
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Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher
by:
Joan Reardon
3.89 avg rating — 106 ratings 
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However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
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Aimee Molloy
4.21 avg rating — 1,216 ratings 195. 
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
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Jean Nathan
4.03 avg rating — 1,587 ratings 195. 
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
by:
Elizabeth Beller
3.73 avg rating — 5,535 ratings 