Women's biographies 2017
1. 
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
by:
Nadia Murad
4.48 avg rating — 27,355 ratings 
3. 
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
by:
Amy Gary
3.61 avg rating — 2,329 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
by:
Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating — 23,146 ratings 
10. 
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
by:
Maggie O'Farrell
3.99 avg rating — 49,906 ratings 10. 
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
by:
Michelle Kuo
4.16 avg rating — 5,943 ratings 12. 
Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
by:
Alice Waters
3.43 avg rating — 4,586 ratings 13. 
Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
by:
George Robb
3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings 14. 
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,237 ratings 
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
by:
Sarah Perry
4.15 avg rating — 5,237 ratings 
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
by:
Deborah Kops
3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings 
25. 
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
by:
Laura Shapiro
3.27 avg rating — 4,777 ratings 
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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 
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The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall
by:
Jeff Biggers
3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings 
39. 
My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves
by:
Agnes Nixon
3.99 avg rating — 332 ratings 
44. 
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front 4.15 avg rating — 3,059 ratings
47. 
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
by:
Gail Lukasik
3.70 avg rating — 2,377 ratings 
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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
by:
Hannah Kimberley
3.74 avg rating — 206 ratings 50. 
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It: Stories from an Online Life 3.29 avg rating — 273 ratings
50. 
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
by:
Ashley Graham
3.75 avg rating — 3,171 ratings 
54. 
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
by:
Souad Mekhennet
4.42 avg rating — 4,817 ratings 55. 
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
by:
Elspeth Beard
4.50 avg rating — 2,642 ratings 
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
by:
Helene Cooper
4.24 avg rating — 1,230 ratings 59. 
Caged Eyes: An Air Force Cadet's Story of Rape and Resilience
by:
Lynn K. Hall
4.71 avg rating — 107 ratings 
61. 
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
by:
Melissa Fleming
4.33 avg rating — 6,233 ratings 62. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,447 ratings 
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Ann Hannah, My (Un)remarkable Grandmother
by:
Betty McLellan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 65. 
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
by:
Scott W. Stern
3.79 avg rating — 377 ratings 66. 
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
by:
Leslie P. Peirce
3.77 avg rating — 744 ratings 66. 
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
by:
Susan Burton
4.60 avg rating — 1,723 ratings 68. 
How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
by:
Jo Piazza
3.81 avg rating — 2,432 ratings 70. 
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
by:
Angela Jackson
3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings 71. 
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical 3.77 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
by:
Donna Seaman
3.66 avg rating — 89 ratings 76. 
Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL
by:
Jen Welter
3.86 avg rating — 96 ratings 76. 
Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules 4.50 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
78. 
Rosa Parks (Volume 9) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 7)
by:
Lisbeth Kaiser
4.39 avg rating — 1,123 ratings 
81. 
Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home
by:
Amy Dickinson
3.78 avg rating — 2,184 ratings 82. 
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Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace
by:
Bana Alabed
4.39 avg rating — 1,400 ratings 
88. 
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists, 2) 4.20 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
by:
Lisa E. Davis
3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings 90. 
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
by:
Amy Guglielmo
4.39 avg rating — 1,313 ratings 91. 
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves
by:
Jessica Yu
3.86 avg rating — 192 ratings 
96. 
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House 3.92 avg rating — 21,301 ratings
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
by:
Gary L. Ford
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 98. 
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There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters From a Badass Bitch
by:
Kelly Osbourne
3.79 avg rating — 1,140 ratings 100. 
Light in the Queen’s Garden: Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai‘i’s Daughters, 1862–1914
by:
Sandra E. Bonura
3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings