Books about interesting women
100. 
The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
3.78 avg rating — 1,320 ratings 
104. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
by:
Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings 104. 
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
by:
Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 106. 
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by:
Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings 
107. 
Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England 3.69 avg rating — 210 ratings
109. 
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
by:
Angelina Jolie
3.97 avg rating — 1,785 ratings 109. 
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
by:
Susan Nagel
3.72 avg rating — 398 ratings 
113. 
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
by:
Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings 113. 
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
by:
Alison Weir
3.69 avg rating — 2,642 ratings 115. 
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
by:
Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 
118. 
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
by:
Ashley Dartnell
4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings 119. 
121. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 122. 
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janzé
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings 
127. 
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
by:
Mark Bostridge
3.55 avg rating — 131 ratings 128. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 129. 
130. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 
132. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 133. 
137. 
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 
140. 
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
by:
Paula Byrne
4.03 avg rating — 1,761 ratings 141. 
142. 
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings 143. 
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 
145. 
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
147. 
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.63 avg rating — 3,677 ratings 
149. 
The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner
by:
Samantha Battams
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings 150. 
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
by:
Anne Glenconner
4.06 avg rating — 30,064 ratings 
152. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 153. 
155. 
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 
159. 
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
by:
Laurence Leamer
3.81 avg rating — 11,868 ratings