Women's Lives
2. 
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
by:
Marsha Gordon
4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,484 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,213 ratings 7. 
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,809 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,005 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
by:
Maggie O'Farrell
3.99 avg rating — 49,905 ratings 10. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 11. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,383 ratings 12. 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
by:
Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,322 ratings 13. 
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,446 ratings 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,900 ratings 
22. 
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by:
Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,116 ratings 
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
25. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,417 ratings 27. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
by:
Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings 28. 
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
by:
Barbara Leaming
3.69 avg rating — 1,638 ratings 29. 
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
by:
Gertrude Bell
3.79 avg rating — 508 ratings 30. 
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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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
by:
Janny Scott
3.85 avg rating — 1,695 ratings 
37. 
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 38. 
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 39. 
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
by:
Philip Freeman
3.92 avg rating — 448 ratings 40. 
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,513 ratings 41. 
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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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
by:
Larry Loftis
3.99 avg rating — 11,602 ratings 44. 
46. 
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
by:
Molly Peacock
3.87 avg rating — 1,283 ratings 46. 
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West 3.44 avg rating — 6,880 ratings
46. 
Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
46. 
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
by:
Leigh Lewis
4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings 
53. 
Won by Love: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, Speaks Out for the Unborn As She Shares Her New Conviction for Life
by:
Norma McCorvey
4.28 avg rating — 323 ratings 
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Short of a Miracle: Tina Torry's Story of Hope in the Midst of Tragedy
by:
Crystal Pitrois
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
62. 
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
by:
Abby Johnson
4.31 avg rating — 8,856 ratings 62. 
67. 
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
by:
Jill Lepore
3.67 avg rating — 4,735 ratings 
67. 
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
by:
Laura Shapiro
3.27 avg rating — 4,777 ratings 
67. 
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters
by:
Patricia Pierce
3.76 avg rating — 138 ratings 74. 
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.41 avg rating — 7,422 ratings 
74. 
Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith
by:
Deforia Lane
4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings 
80. 
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.16 avg rating — 3,929 ratings 80. 
The Good Mothers: The Story of the Three Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
by:
Alex Perry
4.11 avg rating — 1,435 ratings 80. 
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger
by:
Star Parker
3.48 avg rating — 75 ratings 80. 
84. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 
84. 
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
84. 
It Is I Who Have Chosen You : Autobiography of Judie Brown
by:
Judie Brown
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
89. 
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by:
Michelle Dean
3.42 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 89. 
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by:
Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings 
89. 
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
by:
Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating — 13,991 ratings 93. 
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
by:
Morgan Jerkins
4.04 avg rating — 6,731 ratings 93. 
Schoolgirls; Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
by:
Peggy Orenstein
4.05 avg rating — 1,296 ratings 95. 
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
by:
Ashley Dartnell
4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings 
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