Women's biographies 2019
1. 
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
by:
Keena Roberts
4.26 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 2. 
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,530 ratings 3. 
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
by:
Carolyn Forché
4.42 avg rating — 3,266 ratings 4. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,217 ratings 5. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating — 6,506 ratings 6. 
A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
by:
Kerri Rawson
3.46 avg rating — 13,722 ratings 7. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,334 ratings 8. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 9. 
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 — 58,202 ratings 10. 
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
by:
Larry Loftis
3.99 avg rating — 11,604 ratings 11. 
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
by:
Lili Anolik
3.59 avg rating — 2,485 ratings 
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by:
Lori Gottlieb
4.37 avg rating — 385,671 ratings 
15. 
This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines 4.42 avg rating — 116 ratings
17. 
Taking Cover: One Girl's Story of Growing Up During the Iranian Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 124 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by:
Sarah Rose
3.77 avg rating — 6,236 ratings 19. 
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
by:
Susan Page
4.12 avg rating — 4,291 ratings 
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After 4.10 avg rating — 10,960 ratings
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
by:
Meredith May
4.32 avg rating — 11,712 ratings 24. 
The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance
by:
Don Mitchell
3.40 avg rating — 293 ratings 26. 
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work
by:
Victoria Ortiz
3.90 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 27. 
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
by:
Katharine Smyth
3.81 avg rating — 861 ratings 28. 
The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House
by:
Nada Bakos
3.70 avg rating — 685 ratings 29. 
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by:
Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating — 8,385 ratings 
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
by:
Haben Girma
4.19 avg rating — 5,208 ratings 32. 
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years
by:
Cathy Guisewite
3.55 avg rating — 2,104 ratings 
34. 
Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
by:
Samantha Seiple
3.90 avg rating — 421 ratings 35. 
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Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
by:
Erin Carlson
3.54 avg rating — 733 ratings 
38. 
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
by:
Jill Grunenwald
3.59 avg rating — 1,948 ratings 
41. 
Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
by:
Shannon Watts
4.19 avg rating — 696 ratings 42. 
Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
by:
Joanna Jolly
4.17 avg rating — 1,920 ratings 43. 
Where The Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion 4.23 avg rating — 379 ratings
43. 
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
by:
Jessica Pan
3.87 avg rating — 26,773 ratings 45. 
Working with Winston: The Unsung Women Behind Britain's Greatest Statesman
by:
Cita Stelzer
3.88 avg rating — 76 ratings 46. 
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children’s Author, and Creator of The Railway Children 3.66 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 52. 
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
by:
Emma Southon
4.20 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 53. 
All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
by:
Mieke Eerkens
4.25 avg rating — 231 ratings 53. 
The Nightingale's Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
by:
Thomas Wolf
4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings 55. 
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America 3.77 avg rating — 389 ratings
57. 
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
by:
Pamela S. Nadell
3.88 avg rating — 182 ratings 58. 
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
by:
Yuval Taylor
3.77 avg rating — 599 ratings 
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity 3.89 avg rating — 9,086 ratings
67. 
Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
by:
Vanessa McGrady
3.49 avg rating — 7,003 ratings 
69. 
Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond
by:
Charlene Porter
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans
by:
Anita Silvey
4.13 avg rating — 60 ratings 
76. 
Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
by:
Abby Maslin
4.39 avg rating — 1,038 ratings 
78. 
Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman 3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings
79. 
The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out
by:
Kate Armstrong
4.35 avg rating — 153 ratings 80. 
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
by:
Kate Hubbard
3.73 avg rating — 183 ratings 81. 
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
by:
Emily Bernard
4.08 avg rating — 3,011 ratings 82. 
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
by:
Lucasta Miller
3.89 avg rating — 160 ratings 
85. 
A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925–1928
by:
Angela Gregory
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 
86. 
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
by:
Tembi Locke
3.96 avg rating — 47,962 ratings 
89. 
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
by:
Catherine Meeks
3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings 
91. 
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.19 avg rating — 685 ratings 91. 
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard 3.91 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
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Kidnapped by a Client: The Incredible True Story of an Attorney's Fight for Justice
by:
Sharon R. Muse
3.75 avg rating — 323 ratings 95. 
96. 
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend 3.91 avg rating — 190 ratings
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When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
