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100.
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
102.
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
by:
Lisa Kröger
4.06 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
102.
Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
by:
Pendred Noyce
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
102.
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
by:
Melissa Walker
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
105.
Anu: The Yo-Yo Years
by:
Shabnam Vasisht
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
105.
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
by:
Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
107.
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
by:
Mackenzi Lee
4.17 avg rating — 4,027 ratings
107.
A Hundred Years A-Growing: A History of the Irish Girl Guides
by:
Gillian Finian
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
107.
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
by:
Jacqueline A. Jones
4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
110.
Women at Work in Preindustrial France
by:
Daryl M. Hafter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
110.
Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
by:
Lu Ann Jones
3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
112.
Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
by:
Ivy Pinchbeck
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
112.
The valley and the farm
by:
Monica Edwards
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
112.
Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
by:
John Thomas
3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings
115.
Women and the American Labor Movement: From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I
by:
Philip S. Foner
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
115.
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet
by:
Anna Birch
4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings
115.
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
by:
Dana Frank
3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings
118.
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
by:
Helen McCarthy
4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings
118.
Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926 (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
by:
Emma Goldman
4.10 avg rating — 109 ratings
120.
Desert Royal
by:
Jean Sasson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,760 ratings
120.
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
by:
Richard O. Boyer
3.83 avg rating — 266 ratings
120.
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
by:
Anna Reser
3.99 avg rating — 96 ratings
123.
Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
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Sydney Biddle Barrows
3.58 avg rating — 440 ratings
124.
The Fields Of Noon
by:
Sheila Burnford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
124.
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
by:
Michelle Haberland
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
126.
Bush Tracks and Desert Horizons
by:
Rose Rawlins Coppock
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
126.
The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism
by:
Emma Goldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129 ratings
128.
KnitLit (too): Stories from Sheep to Shawl . . . and More Writing About Knitting
by:
Molly Wolf
3.61 avg rating — 247 ratings
128.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
by:
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
4.04 avg rating — 301 ratings
130.
Showjumping with Caroline Bradley
by:
Caroline Bradley
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
130.
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
by:
Jessica Wilkerson
4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
132.
Women Who Changed the World
by:
Ros Horton
3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings
132.
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
by:
Elliott J. Gorn
3.83 avg rating — 259 ratings
134.
Down among the Donkeys
by:
Elisabeth D. Svendsen
4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
134.
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 — 2,439 ratings
136.
Jane Fonda A Biography
by:
Michael Freedland
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
136.
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
by:
Peter Bagge
3.81 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
138.
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
by:
Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
138.
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
by:
Deborah Gray White
4.18 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
140.
In the Shadow of Man
by:
Jane Goodall
4.36 avg rating — 8,858 ratings
140.
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
by:
Sharon Rudahl
3.78 avg rating — 550 ratings
142.
Riding Through My Life
by:
Anne, Princess Royal
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
143.
Breakfast The Night Before: Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer
by:
Marjorie Quarton
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
143.
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
by:
Howard Zinn
3.81 avg rating — 142 ratings
145.
One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS
by:
Sarah. Ford
4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings
145.
Fly Girl: A Memoir
by:
Ann Hood
3.81 avg rating — 7,618 ratings
147.
My Time in the War: An Irishwoman's Diary
by:
Romie Lambkin
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
147.
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
by:
John Wood Sweet
3.79 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
149.
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
150.
Leaping Life's Fences/an Autobiography
by:
Pat Smythe
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
150.
Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India
by:
Jyoti Thottam
3.96 avg rating — 221 ratings
152.
The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
by:
Christine Ardalan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
153.
Fair Girls and Grey Horses
by:
Josephine Pullein-Thompson
3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings
154.
An Open Book
by:
Monica Dickens
3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings
155.
Anu: The Nomad Years
by:
Shabnam Vasisht
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
156.
A Wilder Rose: Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Their Little Houses
by:
Susan Wittig Albert
3.63 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
156.
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
by:
Isaac Jack Levy
4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
158.
A Horse in My Kit Bag
by:
Olga Pyne Clarke
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
159.
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by:
Dervla Murphy
4.07 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
160.
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by:
Joy Adamson
4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
160.
No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II
by:
Diane Burke Fessler
4.27 avg rating — 67 ratings
162.
Up, up and away: The biography of Be Fair
by:
Lucinda Prior-Palmer
4.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
162.
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
by:
June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating — 344 ratings
164.
Silent Spring
by:
Rachel Carson
4.05 avg rating — 53,318 ratings
164.
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
by:
Charissa J. Threat
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
166.
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by:
Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating — 15,847 ratings
166.
Ooooooh Doctor!: Pictorial History of Classic Nurse Paperback Cover
by:
Daniel Herman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
168.
Jump: Dare to Do What Scares You in Business and Life
by:
Kim Perell
3.81 avg rating — 216 ratings
168.
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965 (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 37)
by:
Phoebe Ann Pollitt
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
170.
Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream
by:
KT Johnston
4.50 avg rating — 119 ratings
171.
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
by:
Mary Cronk Farrell
4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
172.
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
by:
Cate Lineberry
3.74 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
173.
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
by:
Barbara Brooks Tomblin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
174.
Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South
by:
Ann Short Chirhart
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
175.
Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Jacqueline A. Jones
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
176.
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jasmine Brown
4.27 avg rating — 433 ratings
177.
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
by:
Suzanne Wrack
4.03 avg rating — 661 ratings
178.
Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors
by:
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
179.
Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series)
by:
Misha Friedman
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
180.
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women's Country Music, 1930-1960
by:
Stephanie Vander Wel
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
181.
Lita & Jean: Memoirs of Two Generations of Military Women
by:
Lita Tomas
4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
182.
Quake Chasers: 15 Women Rocking Earthquake Science
by:
Lori Polydoros
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
183.
Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their FuturesAfter Incarceration
by:
Jorja Leap
4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings
184.
Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research
by:
Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
185.
Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
by:
Suzanne Cope
3.87 avg rating — 99 ratings
186.
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
by:
Peyton Brunet
3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
187.
Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
by:
Victoria Brittain
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
188.
Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz Women
by:
Linda Dahl
3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
189.
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
by:
Danyel Smith
4.05 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
190.
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
by:
Whitney Chadwick
4.34 avg rating — 564 ratings
191.
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
by:
Sandra M. Gilbert
3.95 avg rating — 124 ratings
192.
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
by:
Psyche A. Williams-Forson
4.34 avg rating — 172 ratings
193.
Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
by:
Frankie de la Cretaz
4.12 avg rating — 277 ratings
194.
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
by:
Mayukh Sen
3.64 avg rating — 2,775 ratings
195.
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by:
Judith Mackrell
4.26 avg rating — 808 ratings
196.
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings
197.
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by:
Elizabeth Becker
4.33 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
198.
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
by:
Libra R. Hilde
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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