Women's biographies 2018
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,758 ratings
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
by:
Cecile Richards
4.29 avg rating — 3,753 ratings 
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by:
Andrea Barnet
4.28 avg rating — 564 ratings 
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Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
by:
Sarah B. Pomeroy
4.41 avg rating — 96 ratings 
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Dirty Jewess: A Woman's Courageous Journey to Religious and Political Freedom
by:
Silvia Fishbaum
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings 16. 
Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
by:
Kate Germano
3.80 avg rating — 206 ratings 17. 
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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
by:
Chessy Prout
4.41 avg rating — 1,975 ratings 21. 
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery 3.89 avg rating — 7,372 ratings
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Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
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Peter Rader
3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings 
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by:
Kate Bowler
3.80 avg rating — 51,870 ratings 25. 
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
by:
Joyce Sidman
4.33 avg rating — 2,023 ratings 26. 
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
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Beate Klarsfeld
4.09 avg rating — 219 ratings 27. 
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
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Nikki Meredith
3.23 avg rating — 1,749 ratings 28. 
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
by:
Rania Abouzeid
4.36 avg rating — 1,090 ratings 
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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
by:
Cait Flanders
3.46 avg rating — 65,652 ratings 
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
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Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters 3.92 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
by:
Kelly Sundberg
3.83 avg rating — 2,263 ratings 38. 
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by:
Claire L. Evans
3.93 avg rating — 2,438 ratings 39. 
The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by:
Tessa Fontaine
3.91 avg rating — 1,491 ratings 39. 
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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Fiona Sampson
3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings 41. 
Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out
by:
Katie Heaney
3.78 avg rating — 1,766 ratings 41. 
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Simon Baatz
3.46 avg rating — 2,104 ratings 
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In The Presence Of Greatness: An Actress' Sixty Year Journey
by:
Patty Duke
3.88 avg rating — 390 ratings 47. 
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
by:
Planaria Price
4.22 avg rating — 249 ratings 51. 
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
by:
Jennifer O'Toole
3.88 avg rating — 3,357 ratings 52. 
A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
by:
Susan Ronald
3.32 avg rating — 215 ratings 
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
by:
Abby Norman
3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings 56. 
A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women
by:
Phyllis Chesler
3.69 avg rating — 163 ratings 57. 
Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
by:
Breanne Fahs
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram 4.23 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
by:
Michelle LeClair
3.82 avg rating — 594 ratings 72. 
Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
by:
Elizabeth Smart
4.03 avg rating — 2,300 ratings 
74. 
I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
by:
Khalida Brohi
4.08 avg rating — 1,116 ratings 75. 
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters the Crown of Bohemia and the Enduring Legacy of Mary Queen of Scots
by:
Nancy Goldstone
4.08 avg rating — 2,446 ratings 75. 
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age
by:
Christine Lahti
3.86 avg rating — 249 ratings 78. 
Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free from Shame
by:
Vicky Beeching
4.49 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
80. 
Edith's War: Writings of a Red Cross Worker and Lifelong Champion of Social Justice
by:
Peter A. Witt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 80. 
Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
by:
Jens Andersen
4.25 avg rating — 1,839 ratings 
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Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal
by:
Dorje Dolma
4.15 avg rating — 194 ratings 
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Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
by:
D.J. Herda
3.33 avg rating — 33 ratings 
88. 
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by:
Sarah Smarsh
3.76 avg rating — 16,288 ratings 
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You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
by:
Daniela Lamas
3.99 avg rating — 1,431 ratings 
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Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
by:
Lita Judge
4.34 avg rating — 3,892 ratings 98. 
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
by:
Masih Alinejad
4.25 avg rating — 1,457 ratings 98. 
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
by:
Catherine Hewitt
3.91 avg rating — 457 ratings