Women, Including Writers, And The Lives They Built
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Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse
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Barbara Boyle
4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings 
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
by:
Mackenzi Lee
4.17 avg rating — 4,027 ratings 5. 
In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
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Karen Karbo
3.55 avg rating — 3,023 ratings 6. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,163 ratings 
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
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Joyce Sidman
4.33 avg rating — 2,024 ratings 
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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition
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Gerda Lerner
3.90 avg rating — 234 ratings 11. 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 569,025 ratings 
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 14. 
The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era
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Ida Cook
3.72 avg rating — 1,310 ratings 14. 
Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
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frame-janet
4.21 avg rating — 2,517 ratings 20. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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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 
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What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics 4.61 avg rating — 6,757 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
by:
Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,435 ratings 33. 
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by:
Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings 34. 
Equal to the Challenge: Pioneering Women of Horse Sports
by:
Jackie C. Burke
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 34. 
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by:
Chanrithy Him
4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings 36. 
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by:
Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings 
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 39. 
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.92 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 39. 
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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Hazel Dickens
4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings 39. 
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,294 ratings 
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 44. 
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Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
by:
Leokadia Schmidt
4.37 avg rating — 1,463 ratings 47. 
Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 49. 
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
by:
Urvashi Butalia
4.08 avg rating — 982 ratings 49. 
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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 
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience 4.14 avg rating — 5,359 ratings
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
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Kathi Appelt
4.28 avg rating — 776 ratings 
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Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
by:
Rachel Simmons
4.11 avg rating — 1,009 ratings 
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
by:
Emily Nagoski
4.28 avg rating — 81,151 ratings 
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You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
by:
Deborah Tannen
3.49 avg rating — 742 ratings 
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In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
by:
Julia P. Gelardi
3.92 avg rating — 619 ratings 75. 
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School 4.12 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,211 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,744 ratings 
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by:
Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,134 ratings 
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Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
by:
Evette Dionne
4.34 avg rating — 715 ratings 
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
by:
Deborah Kops
3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings 90. 
The Famous Five: Canada's Crusaders for Women's Rights
by:
Barbara Smith
3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
by:
Lynn Sherr
4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings 
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by:
Elaine F. Weiss
4.02 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,161 ratings 98. 
Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist
by:
Pat Pascoe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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From Housewife to Heretic: One woman's spiritual awakening and her excommunication from the Mormon church
by:
Sonia Johnson
3.93 avg rating — 179 ratings