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200.
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by:
Nancy Milford
3.91 avg rating β 9,507 ratings
200.
The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in the Highlands
by:
Caroline Young
4.36 avg rating β 25 ratings
203.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
by:
Blanche Wiesen Cook
4.20 avg rating β 552 ratings
203.
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
by:
Marion Meade
3.98 avg rating β 4,160 ratings
203.
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by:
Loren Grush
4.33 avg rating β 6,186 ratings
206.
A Girl Called Dusty
by:
Sharon Davis
3.30 avg rating β 33 ratings
206.
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
by:
Janet Halfmann
4.26 avg rating β 288 ratings
208.
Mary, Queen of Scots: Escape from the Castle
by:
Theresa Breslin
3.78 avg rating β 18 ratings
208.
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating β 13,809 ratings
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The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan
by:
Anne Renaud
3.99 avg rating β 134 ratings
210.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
by:
Judith Thurman
3.88 avg rating β 1,723 ratings
212.
The Peabody Sisters
by:
Megan Marshall
4.12 avg rating β 1,424 ratings
213.
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles
by:
Patricia Valdez
4.34 avg rating β 1,769 ratings
213.
Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
by:
Marian Veevers
3.64 avg rating β 163 ratings
215.
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by:
Nancy Marie Brown
3.71 avg rating β 1,292 ratings
215.
The Power of Glamour: The Women Who Defined the Magic of Stardom
by:
Annette Tapert
4.03 avg rating β 105 ratings
217.
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russiaβs Most Seductive Spy
by:
Deborah McDonald
3.62 avg rating β 145 ratings
217.
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by:
Andrea Barnet
4.28 avg rating β 564 ratings
217.
The Power of Style
by:
Annette Tapert
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 224 ratings
220.
She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It
by:
Hannah Jewell
3.65 avg rating β 2,619 ratings
221.
Lela Rhoades, Pit River Woman: As Told to Molly Curtis
by:
Molly Curtis
4.22 avg rating β 18 ratings
221.
Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
by:
Susan Goldman Rubin
3.69 avg rating β 248 ratings
221.
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
by:
PΓ©nΓ©lope Bagieu
4.51 avg rating β 9,171 ratings
224.
Her Majesty: A Guide to the Women Who Ruled the World
by:
Lisa Graves
3.77 avg rating β 43 ratings
225.
Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
by:
Robin Gerber
3.70 avg rating β 1,925 ratings
226.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by:
Linda Colley
3.46 avg rating β 550 ratings
227.
Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories)
by:
Rebecca Rissman
4.36 avg rating β 59 ratings
228.
Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
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Trina Robbins
4.42 avg rating β 12 ratings
228.
Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action)
by:
Susan M. Latta
3.94 avg rating β 68 ratings
230.
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
by:
Marjorie Shostak
3.89 avg rating β 2,671 ratings
230.
A Girl Named Hillary: The True Story of Hillary Clinton (American Girl True Stories): The True Story of Hillary Clinton
by:
Rebecca Paley
3.87 avg rating β 70 ratings
232.
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
by:
Patricia Bosworth
3.77 avg rating β 375 ratings
232.
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by:
Brenda Wineapple
3.98 avg rating β 548 ratings
232.
Anybody's Game: Kathryn Johnston, the First Girl to Play Little League Baseball
by:
Heather Lang
3.99 avg rating β 160 ratings
235.
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
by:
Kathleen Krull
4.31 avg rating β 2,227 ratings
235.
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
by:
Kyo Maclear
4.22 avg rating β 602 ratings
237.
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
by:
Sharon Rudahl
3.78 avg rating β 550 ratings
237.
Florence Nightingale: A Life Inspired
by:
Lynn M. Hamilton
3.90 avg rating β 740 ratings
237.
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (Washington Mews Books)
by:
Johanna Neuman
3.65 avg rating β 173 ratings
240.
Emmeline Pankhurst (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #8)
by:
Lisbeth Kaiser
4.19 avg rating β 640 ratings
241.
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
by:
Isabel Quintero
3.93 avg rating β 1,498 ratings
241.
Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
by:
Amy Hill Hearth
3.94 avg rating β 122 ratings
243.
Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
by:
Sarah B. Pomeroy
4.41 avg rating β 96 ratings
244.
Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp (Graphic Biographies series)
by:
Trina Robbins
3.74 avg rating β 27 ratings
244.
La Casati: The Selfish Muse
by:
Vanna Vinci
3.75 avg rating β 155 ratings
246.
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
by:
Amy Guglielmo
4.39 avg rating β 1,313 ratings
246.
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World
by:
Chelsea Clinton
4.38 avg rating β 6,790 ratings
248.
Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist (New York State Series)
by:
Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating
249.
Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs
by:
Susan Hughes
3.49 avg rating β 166 ratings
250.
This Shining Woman
by:
Marjorie Bowen
3.50 avg rating β 20 ratings
251.
Mister and Lady Day: Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her
by:
Amy Novesky
3.97 avg rating β 258 ratings
252.
Becoming Billie Holiday
by:
Carole Boston Weatherford
4.08 avg rating β 457 ratings
252.
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
by:
Marlene Trestman
4.52 avg rating β 27 ratings
254.
With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
by:
Julia Blackburn
3.88 avg rating β 380 ratings
254.
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
by:
Nell Irvin Painter
4.19 avg rating β 1,249 ratings
254.
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
by:
Michelle Bisson
4.20 avg rating β 182 ratings
257.
If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
by:
Farah Jasmine Griffin
3.96 avg rating β 207 ratings
258.
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
by:
Monica Brown
4.12 avg rating β 1,283 ratings
259.
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
by:
Myra Friedman
3.90 avg rating β 1,762 ratings
260.
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
by:
Kay Mills
4.21 avg rating β 310 ratings
261.
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists, 2)
by:
Julia Finley Mosca
4.20 avg rating β 490 ratings
262.
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
by:
Chana Kai Lee
4.17 avg rating β 249 ratings
262.
Enchantress of Numbers
by:
Jennifer Chiaverini
3.59 avg rating β 5,638 ratings
262.
Dangerous Jane: ?The Life and Times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace
by:
Suzanne Slade
4.21 avg rating β 278 ratings
265.
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Bess Lomax Hawes
4.27 avg rating β 22 ratings
266.
Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
by:
Jane Yolen
3.77 avg rating β 340 ratings
266.
Dorothea Dix: Advocate for Mental Health Care
by:
Margaret Muckenhoupt
3.56 avg rating β 9 ratings
268.
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
by:
Brooke Hauser
3.65 avg rating β 254 ratings
269.
Tina Turner
by:
Laura Fissinger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
269.
Into the Darkness Laughing: The Story of Jeanne Hebuterne, Modigliani's Last Mistress
by:
Patrice Chaplin
3.55 avg rating β 62 ratings
271.
Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens
by:
John Holyfield
3.91 avg rating β 170 ratings
272.
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels (Biography Books for Kids, Feminist Books for Girls)
by:
Linda Skeers
4.14 avg rating β 595 ratings
273.
Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
by:
Rachel Ignotofsky
4.31 avg rating β 914 ratings
273.
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
by:
Carole Boston Weatherford
3.67 avg rating β 363 ratings
275.
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
by:
Joan Schenkar
3.70 avg rating β 759 ratings
276.
Diane Arbus: A Biography
by:
Patricia Bosworth
4.01 avg rating β 3,774 ratings
277.
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
by:
Nadine Cohodas
3.85 avg rating β 73 ratings
277.
The Bravest Woman in America
by:
Marissa Moss
4.06 avg rating β 219 ratings
279.
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by:
Georgina Howell
3.97 avg rating β 3,475 ratings
280.
Daring Amelia (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
by:
Barbara Lowell
3.74 avg rating β 42 ratings
281.
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.84 avg rating β 1,380 ratings
281.
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
by:
Audrey Vernick
4.27 avg rating β 370 ratings
283.
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways
by:
Evelyn McDonnell
3.74 avg rating β 341 ratings
283.
Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
by:
Heather Lang
4.26 avg rating β 448 ratings
285.
Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant
by:
Mary V. Dearborn
4.07 avg rating β 68 ratings
285.
Gold Rush Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman
by:
Thora Kerr Illing
3.71 avg rating β 35 ratings
285.
Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective
by:
Marissa Moss
3.83 avg rating β 223 ratings
288.
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
by:
Susan Ronald
3.54 avg rating β 495 ratings
288.
Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter
by:
Barbara Herkert
3.64 avg rating β 171 ratings
290.
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.94 avg rating β 3,219 ratings
290.
The Daring Miss Quimby
by:
Suzanne George Whitaker
3.57 avg rating β 35 ratings
292.
Queen Amang the Heather: The Life of Belle Stewart
by:
Sheila Stewart
3.90 avg rating β 10 ratings
293.
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
by:
Carole Boston Weatherford
4.14 avg rating β 287 ratings
294.
Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
by:
Harriet O'Brien
3.81 avg rating β 806 ratings
294.
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story
by:
Suzanne Slade
4.27 avg rating β 402 ratings
294.
Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender: The True Story of a Civil War Spy (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
by:
Carrie Jones
3.82 avg rating β 188 ratings
297.
Flying Solo: How Ruth Elder Soared into America's Heart
by:
Julie Cummins
3.79 avg rating β 130 ratings
298.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by:
Terry Ryan
3.92 avg rating β 15,516 ratings
299.
Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
by:
Linda Dahl
4.11 avg rating β 55 ratings
299.
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by:
Carole Boston Weatherford
4.36 avg rating β 6,000 ratings
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