History of Women
5. 
Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603
by:
Anne Chambers
3.48 avg rating — 1,079 ratings 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,945 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 — 64,226 ratings 10. 
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings 
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
by:
James Wyllie
3.83 avg rating — 2,709 ratings 14. 
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
by:
Kate Williams
3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings 
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating — 850,481 ratings 17. 
Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess
by:
Violet Jessop
3.87 avg rating — 1,616 ratings 18. 
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
by:
Mikki Kendall
4.11 avg rating — 2,072 ratings 
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings 
22. 
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
by:
Jason Porath
4.39 avg rating — 3,444 ratings 
22. 
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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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
by:
Will Harlan
4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings 
33. 
They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
by:
Barbara Holland
3.63 avg rating — 313 ratings 33. 
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by:
Nora Ephron
3.74 avg rating — 84,670 ratings 35. 
Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
by:
Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 
35. 
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 
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
by:
Kristen Green
3.58 avg rating — 866 ratings 42. 
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by:
Corrie ten Boom
4.47 avg rating — 348,511 ratings 45. 
Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr (2008-10-28)
by:
Kris Waldherr
3.77 avg rating — 2,282 ratings 45. 
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
by:
Kate Moore
4.29 avg rating — 37,586 ratings 47. 
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
by:
Bruce Barcott
4.10 avg rating — 992 ratings 48. 
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by:
Roya Hakakian
3.77 avg rating — 1,205 ratings 48. 
Far Side of the Moon: Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and the Woman Who Gave Him Wings
by:
Liisa Jorgensen
4.36 avg rating — 111 ratings 48. 
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings 
51. 
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth 4.38 avg rating — 16,792 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings 
55. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 
55. 
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
by:
Greg King
4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings 59. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 
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A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs
by:
Tara Nurin
3.55 avg rating — 234 ratings 59. 
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Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits
by:
Norah Lofts
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 63. 
Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman's Daring in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Marian Knapp
3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings 
67. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
by:
Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating — 21,523 ratings 
67. 
Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
by:
Li Juan
3.95 avg rating — 624 ratings 
71. 
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
by:
Shelley Puhak
4.08 avg rating — 4,852 ratings 71. 
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,199 ratings 71. 
The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati
by:
Wendy Garling
4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings 
75. 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by:
Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings 
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by:
Loren Grush
4.33 avg rating — 6,176 ratings 83. 
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
by:
Emily Midorikawa
3.66 avg rating — 1,146 ratings 
83. 
Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
by:
Paige Bowers
4.11 avg rating — 116 ratings 
86. 
The Bandit Queen Of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant To International Legend
by:
Phoolan Devi
4.30 avg rating — 430 ratings 86. 
Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
by:
Margot Mifflin
3.75 avg rating — 349 ratings 
91. 
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
by:
Elena Favilli
4.32 avg rating — 42,927 ratings 
94. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,840 ratings 94. 
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
by:
Emma Southon
4.20 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 
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Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
by:
Tracy Dawson
3.75 avg rating — 515 ratings