Women's Lives
106. 
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
106. 
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
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Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings 
109. 
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
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Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 109. 
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
by:
Belva Davis
4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings 
111. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 111. 
Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace
by:
Andra Watkins
3.76 avg rating — 1,604 ratings 114. 
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 114. 
Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
by:
Antoinette Tuff
4.19 avg rating — 299 ratings 
117. 
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 117. 
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)
by:
J. David Riva
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 119. 
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
by:
Jessa Crispin
3.90 avg rating — 911 ratings 
119. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 122. 
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials 3.43 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
122. 
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
125. 
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
128. 
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by:
James Essinger
3.27 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 
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Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
by:
Paula Byrne
4.03 avg rating — 1,761 ratings 
135. 
The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story
by:
Emily Gibson
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings 137. 
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 137. 
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by:
Nora Ephron
3.74 avg rating — 84,677 ratings 
140. 
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings 140. 
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janzé
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings 
144. 
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.84 avg rating — 1,380 ratings 144. 
147. 
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
by:
Clare Mulley
3.74 avg rating — 2,313 ratings 147. 
Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,435 ratings
149. 
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
by:
Nancy Goldstein
4.09 avg rating — 98 ratings 149. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 151. 
Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
by:
Trina Robbins
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 151. 
153. 
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by:
Fiona Carnarvon
3.64 avg rating — 20,492 ratings 
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings 159. 
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
by:
Sharon Rudahl
3.78 avg rating — 550 ratings 
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
by:
Kirstin Downey
4.22 avg rating — 2,438 ratings 
166. 
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by:
Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings 
168. 
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by:
Linda Colley
3.46 avg rating — 550 ratings 168. 
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
by:
Sam Kashner
3.69 avg rating — 3,070 ratings 170. 
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
by:
Farley Mowat
4.17 avg rating — 3,657 ratings 
172. 
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
by:
Anne Glenconner
4.06 avg rating — 30,064 ratings 173. 
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by:
Eve LaPlante
3.59 avg rating — 1,741 ratings 173. 
The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner
by:
Samantha Battams
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings 
176. 
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy
by:
Deborah McDonald
3.62 avg rating — 145 ratings 176. 
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by:
Chanrithy Him
4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings 178. 
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating — 39,199 ratings 
179. 
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
by:
Lyndsy Spence
3.55 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 181. 
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
by:
Will Harlan
4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings 182. 
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
by:
Philip Eade
3.26 avg rating — 190 ratings 
184. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 186. 
187. 
Lela Rhoades, Pit River Woman: As Told to Molly Curtis
by:
Molly Curtis
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings 187. 
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
by:
James Wyllie
3.83 avg rating — 2,709 ratings 189. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
195. 
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 196. 
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
by:
Beau Donelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,319 ratings 196. 
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
by:
Loretta Smith
4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings 198. 
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
198. 
Daughters of Melbourne: A Guide to the Invisible Statues of Melbourne
by:
Maree Coote
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 200. 
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