The Overlooked Women of History
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,449 ratings 
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 105. 
The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
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Chris Enss
3.59 avg rating — 395 ratings 106. 
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two 3.85 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 109. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings 112. 
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
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Joshua Zeitz
3.84 avg rating — 3,433 ratings 115. 
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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Lisa Kröger
4.06 avg rating — 4,280 ratings 116. 
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women (More than Petticoats Series)
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Deborah Bouziden
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 116. 
Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
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Sinclair McKay
3.80 avg rating — 4,194 ratings 
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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Georgina Howell
3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings 
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Karen Abbott
3.63 avg rating — 13,091 ratings 127. 
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
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Alison Weir
3.69 avg rating — 2,642 ratings 
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Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
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Pendred Noyce
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
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Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
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Michelle Markel
4.21 avg rating — 3,701 ratings 137. 
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
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Barbara Hodgson
3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings 
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From Meidelach to Matriarchs ~ A Journal: Jewish Women of Yesteryear to Inspire your Today
by:
Mirta Ines Trupp
4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 140. 
100 Extraordinary Stories for Courageous Girls: Unforgettable Tales of Women of Faith
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Jean Fischer
4.42 avg rating — 154 ratings 140. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy
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Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,206 ratings 142. 
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
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Marissa Moss
4.13 avg rating — 525 ratings 143. 
The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
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Susan Quinn
3.81 avg rating — 4,727 ratings 
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I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote (Melanie Kroupa Books)
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Linda Arms White
4.25 avg rating — 311 ratings 148. 
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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Kate Williams
3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings 
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson 4.04 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
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Renée Watson
4.28 avg rating — 1,052 ratings 
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The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
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Sheila Jeffreys
4.09 avg rating — 148 ratings 158. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
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David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 
161. 
The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story
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Emily Gibson
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings 161. 
We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 161. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 
166. 
Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics 4.01 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth
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Barb Rosenstock
4.17 avg rating — 491 ratings 
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride 4.25 avg rating — 35,220 ratings
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Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
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Julia Cooke
3.65 avg rating — 13,841 ratings 174. 
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
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Ritu Menon
4.20 avg rating — 142 ratings 174. 
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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Keith O'Brien
4.40 avg rating — 1,848 ratings 
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels 4.09 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
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Amy Hill Hearth
3.94 avg rating — 122 ratings 179. 
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live 3.87 avg rating — 2,189 ratings
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In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
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Julia P. Gelardi
3.92 avg rating — 619 ratings 182. 
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
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John Man
3.51 avg rating — 505 ratings 186. 
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 4.34 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
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The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700
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Elizabeth Howe
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America 3.60 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
by:
Sarah Gristwood
4.02 avg rating — 1,593 ratings 194. 
Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II
by:
Bruce Myles
4.19 avg rating — 471 ratings 
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Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
by:
Sheila Rowbotham
3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings 198. 
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 200. 
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.84 avg rating — 395 ratings