Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 4.51 avg rating — 37,428 ratings
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In Other Words
In Other Words 3.74 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 62,917 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,864 ratings
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The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book 4.02 avg rating — 9,588 ratings
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The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing 4.18 avg rating — 698 ratings
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What Is Africa to Me?: Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography
What Is Africa to Me?: Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,119 ratings
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Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians
Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians 4.12 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary of Lady Murasaki 3.80 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life 4.40 avg rating — 6,126 ratings
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea 4.02 avg rating — 923 ratings
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A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939–1940
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939–1940 3.98 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 4.46 avg rating — 20,849 ratings
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Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia
Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia 3.91 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Days in the Caucasus
Days in the Caucasus
by: Banine
4.08 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter 4.36 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Cockroaches
Cockroaches 4.41 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by: Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,074 ratings
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Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life
Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life 4.30 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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The Confessions of Lady Nijō
The Confessions of Lady Nijō 3.95 avg rating — 697 ratings
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
by: Sappho
4.43 avg rating — 20,759 ratings
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams 3.86 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi 3.85 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Alexiad
The Alexiad 4.06 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,007 ratings
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A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe
A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq 4.08 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,743 ratings
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Back to the Congo
Back to the Congo 3.74 avg rating — 296 ratings
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My Grandmother: A Memoir
My Grandmother: A Memoir 4.22 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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The Book of the City of Ladies
The Book of the City of Ladies 3.80 avg rating — 4,256 ratings
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Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 4.28 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan 3.95 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Boys in Zinc
Boys in Zinc 4.30 avg rating — 11,661 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,569 ratings
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No Place to Lay One's Head
No Place to Lay One's Head 3.86 avg rating — 6,872 ratings
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I'm Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future
I'm Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future 4.13 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
by: Teffi
4.07 avg rating — 958 ratings
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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement 4.17 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Book of Emma Reyes
The Book of Emma Reyes 4.27 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
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War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 4.21 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Diving for Seahorses: Exploring the Science and Secrets of Human Memory
Diving for Seahorses: Exploring the Science and Secrets of Human Memory 3.79 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) 3.71 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Force of Circumstance
Force of Circumstance 4.07 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Daughter of the River: An Autobiography
Daughter of the River: An Autobiography
by: Hong Ying
3.79 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Shadows on the Tundra
Shadows on the Tundra 4.36 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya 4.31 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew 3.73 avg rating — 27,003 ratings
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Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism
Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Rebel in Gaza: Behind the Lines of the Arab Spring, One Woman's Story
A Rebel in Gaza: Behind the Lines of the Arab Spring, One Woman's Story 4.13 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
by: Catel
3.97 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia
False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia 3.58 avg rating — 150 ratings
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I Remember Beirut
I Remember Beirut 3.62 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
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Torjutut muistot
Torjutut muistot
by: Imbi Paju
3.69 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections 4.29 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World 3.33 avg rating — 780 ratings
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All said and done
All said and done 3.82 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924 3.67 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
by: Lili Elbe
4.06 avg rating — 788 ratings
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In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia) 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other
Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Europe in Sepia
Europe in Sepia 3.90 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Montreal Massacre
The Montreal Massacre 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Laugh of the Medusa
The Laugh of the Medusa 4.18 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey 4.10 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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Stories of the Sahara
Stories of the Sahara
by: Sanmao
4.45 avg rating — 3,280 ratings
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Translation as Transhumance
Translation as Transhumance 4.07 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Coming of Age
The Coming of Age 3.94 avg rating — 556 ratings
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I Remain in Darkness
I Remain in Darkness 4.01 avg rating — 5,225 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
Cherry Ingram
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Wind Is Howling: an autobiographical journey from nihilism to Christianity
The Wind Is Howling: an autobiographical journey from nihilism to Christianity 4.31 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality 4.34 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Traces of Enayat
Traces of Enayat 4.26 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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The Gates of Damascus
The Gates of Damascus 3.72 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Two Sisters
Two Sisters 4.21 avg rating — 7,135 ratings
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition 4.48 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World 4.25 avg rating — 22,594 ratings
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Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico
Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by: Nora Krug
4.32 avg rating — 9,226 ratings
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Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us 4.18 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Sexographies
Sexographies 3.88 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
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Happening
Happening 4.31 avg rating — 65,284 ratings
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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine 4.20 avg rating — 8,709 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines 4.26 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy 3.63 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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Women of Komala: Gender and Revolution in Iranian Kurdistan
Women of Komala: Gender and Revolution in Iranian Kurdistan 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again
Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again 3.49 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Simone Weil Reader
The Simone Weil Reader 4.33 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War 4.22 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Now and at the Hour of Our Death really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Suite for Barbara Loden
Suite for Barbara Loden 4.12 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3.88 avg rating — 386,274 ratings
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Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Awkward Intelligence: Where AI Goes Wrong, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do about It
Awkward Intelligence: Where AI Goes Wrong, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do about It 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire
So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire 3.92 avg rating — 383 ratings
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War and the Iliad
War and the Iliad 4.08 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat
Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat 3.78 avg rating — 673 ratings
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