Nonfiction by Female Authors
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,731 ratings 
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,209 ratings 94. 
A Daily Dose of Now: 365 Mindfulness Meditation Practices for Living in the Moment
by:
Nita Sweeney
4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
by:
Susan Griffin
3.51 avg rating — 1,262 ratings 106. 
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf
by:
Virginia Woolf
4.16 avg rating — 6,460 ratings 
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The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
by:
Kalpana Sharma
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
by:
Judith N. Lasker
4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings 113. 
Време секънд хенд: краят на червения човек (Гласовете на утопията, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 20,854 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 113. 
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
by:
Katrine Marçal
3.67 avg rating — 3,788 ratings 113. 
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by:
Katharina Pistor
4.03 avg rating — 915 ratings 113. 
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments 4.05 avg rating — 23,282 ratings
120. 
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
by:
Cordelia Fine
4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings 
120. 
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by:
Toni Morrison
4.32 avg rating — 7,356 ratings 120. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,156 ratings 
126. 
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet
by:
Anna Birch
4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings 
126. 
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
by:
Gioconda Belli
4.22 avg rating — 3,299 ratings 126. 
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
by:
Anabel Hernández
3.98 avg rating — 730 ratings 
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by:
Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings 140. 
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 3.97 avg rating — 7,631 ratings
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The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
by:
Moderata Fonte
4.02 avg rating — 188 ratings 140. 
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock 4.04 avg rating — 341 ratings
154. 
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700
by:
Elizabeth Howe
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 154. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 154. 
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale Nota Bene S)
by:
Margaret Lowman
3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings 
161. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating — 114,821 ratings 
161. 
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
by:
Heidi Ardizzone
3.86 avg rating — 539 ratings 
168. 
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
by:
Elizabeth Norton
3.86 avg rating — 1,976 ratings 
168. 
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction 4.27 avg rating — 1,958 ratings
173. 
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,434 ratings
173. 
Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
180. 
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
by:
Amy Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 10,453 ratings 180. 
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by:
Joy Adamson
4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings 180. 
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings 180. 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating — 29,312 ratings 180. 
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 
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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
by:
Barbara Mertz
4.04 avg rating — 1,859 ratings 185. 
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
by:
Janet Gleeson
3.89 avg rating — 655 ratings 190. 
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America 4.31 avg rating — 4,665 ratings
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The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in the Highlands
by:
Caroline Young
4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings 
195. 
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online
by:
Mary Aiken
3.74 avg rating — 1,495 ratings 195. 
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
by:
Laura Swan
3.71 avg rating — 217 ratings 195. 
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
by:
Alexandra Lange
3.60 avg rating — 1,578 ratings 199. 
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