Biographies of Significant Historical Women
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by:
Jack Weatherford
3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings 106. 
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
by:
Tracy Borman
3.90 avg rating — 1,659 ratings 107. 
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
by:
Linda Porter
4.03 avg rating — 1,610 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 
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Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower
by:
David Baldwin
3.80 avg rating — 398 ratings 
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My Call to the Ring: A Memoir of a Girl Who Yearns to Box
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Deirdre Gogarty
4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace
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Nikki R. Haley
4.24 avg rating — 4,264 ratings 117. 
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
by:
Celia Stahr
4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings 
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by:
Georgina Howell
3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings 
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City 3.98 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 3.97 avg rating — 9,653 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,706 ratings 
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Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
by:
Greg King
3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
by:
Huda Shaarawi
3.67 avg rating — 411 ratings 
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Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses
by:
Caroline Chapman
3.64 avg rating — 77 ratings 
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
by:
Anne Sebba
3.44 avg rating — 4,656 ratings 
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by:
Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating — 444 ratings 158. 
Sarah Churchill: Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
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Ophelia Field
3.63 avg rating — 585 ratings 159. 
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 159. 
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by:
Eve LaPlante
3.59 avg rating — 1,741 ratings 159. 
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
by:
Sharon Rudahl
3.78 avg rating — 550 ratings 
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Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess
by:
Susan Morgan
3.42 avg rating — 104 ratings 164. 
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
by:
Tracy Borman
4.28 avg rating — 2,231 ratings 
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 166. 
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,810 ratings
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Victoria, The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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Julia Baird
4.11 avg rating — 11,958 ratings 
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Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics 4.01 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
by:
Ann Shen
4.04 avg rating — 5,242 ratings 175. 
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by:
John Matteson
4.02 avg rating — 1,831 ratings 
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Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue (12) (Women of Action)
by:
Susan M. Casey
3.61 avg rating — 322 ratings 179. 
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
by:
Nancy Goldstone
4.08 avg rating — 2,446 ratings 180. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,450 ratings 181. 
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.84 avg rating — 1,380 ratings 182. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,208 ratings 
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Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
by:
Mary S. Lovell
4.15 avg rating — 2,301 ratings 
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
by:
Anne Somerset
3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings 188. 
Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England
by:
Helen E. Maurer
4.23 avg rating — 64 ratings 188. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 
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The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull 4.12 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King 3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings
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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 