The Overlooked Women of History
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,354 ratings 3. 
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
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Jason Porath
4.39 avg rating — 3,444 ratings 4. 
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
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Elena Favilli
4.32 avg rating — 42,924 ratings 
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
by:
Mackenzi Lee
4.17 avg rating — 4,027 ratings 7. 
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 8. 
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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Sam Maggs
3.98 avg rating — 2,136 ratings 
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
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Ann Shen
4.04 avg rating — 5,244 ratings 12. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating — 31,440 ratings 13. 
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by:
Jack Weatherford
3.93 avg rating — 4,562 ratings 14. 
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
by:
Kate Schatz
4.38 avg rating — 1,689 ratings 15. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,840 ratings 
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 4.51 avg rating — 37,423 ratings
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Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
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Jane Yolen
3.89 avg rating — 756 ratings 
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
by:
Rosalind Miles
3.80 avg rating — 4,174 ratings 25. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings 26. 
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs
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Jason Porath
4.30 avg rating — 617 ratings 
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Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue 4.06 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating — 23,146 ratings 
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
by:
Adrienne Mayor
4.13 avg rating — 1,245 ratings 32. 
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
by:
Kate Schatz
4.41 avg rating — 3,147 ratings 
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
by:
Elizabeth Norton
3.86 avg rating — 1,976 ratings 36. 
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by:
Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,262 ratings 
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
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DeAnne Blanton
3.71 avg rating — 632 ratings 42. 
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 — 594 ratings 43. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,215 ratings 44. 
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,513 ratings 45. 
4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
by:
Vicki León
3.49 avg rating — 635 ratings 46. 
Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
by:
Sarah B. Pomeroy
3.99 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 47. 
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
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Lillian Faderman
4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings 
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,324 ratings 51. 
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of Brave Bessie Coleman
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Reeve Lindbergh
4.17 avg rating — 150 ratings 52. 
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 53. 
The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor
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Michael Rank
3.43 avg rating — 215 ratings 
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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Hunter S. Jones
4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings 55. 
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
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Marsha Gordon
4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings 57. 
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 58. 
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
by:
Alison Weir
3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings 59. 
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
by:
Anne Sebba
3.83 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 60. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by:
Cynthia Levinson
4.44 avg rating — 1,712 ratings 
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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
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Cynthia Chin-Lee
4.23 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy
by:
Gerda Lerner
4.31 avg rating — 296 ratings 
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
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Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 4,056 ratings 
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Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
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Lisa E. Davis
3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings 71. 
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings 72. 
Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
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Chandler O'Leary
4.22 avg rating — 530 ratings 72. 
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Decoded (The Ex-Files - Unsolved Mysteries Investigations Book 1)
by:
Amalia Rose
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings 75. 
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
by:
Duncan Tonatiuh
4.41 avg rating — 6,283 ratings 76. 
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
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Ericka Kim Verba
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 77. 
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 
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings 80. 
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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Melanie Rehak
3.76 avg rating — 3,232 ratings 81. 
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
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Gail Collins
4.16 avg rating — 4,836 ratings 82. 
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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Hollis Robbins
4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
by:
Saidiya Hartman
4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings 
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas 3.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
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Betsy Israel
3.71 avg rating — 1,032 ratings 92. 
Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
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Virginia Cornell
4.06 avg rating — 604 ratings 93. 
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 791 ratings
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What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
by:
Barbara Kerley
4.08 avg rating — 2,465 ratings 
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No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure
by:
Susan Hughes
3.40 avg rating — 273 ratings 
