Biographies of Significant Historical Women
201. 
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 4.18 avg rating — 157 ratings
201. 
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
by:
Mark Bostridge
3.55 avg rating — 131 ratings 
204. 
206. 
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 
209. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
211. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings 211. 
The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irishwoman and Soldier
by:
Anne Holland
3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings 
211. 
Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort 3.97 avg rating — 159 ratings
211. 
Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
by:
Debbie Marshall
3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings 211. 
Rewriting history: The life and times of Pandita Ramabai
by:
Uma Chakravarti
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 211. 
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.03 avg rating — 221 ratings 211. 
Portrait of Young Genius – The Mind and Art of Marie Bashkirtseff
by:
Joel L. Schiff
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
211. 
Mercedes Sosa - More than a Song, A tribute to "La Negra", the voice of Latin America, (1935-2009) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
211. 
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle 3.99 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
211. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,838 ratings 
211. 
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
by:
Marc Peyser
3.90 avg rating — 2,334 ratings 
211. 
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
by:
Leigh Lewis
4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings 211. 
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings 
211. 
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
by:
Tara T. Green
4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings 
211. 
Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice
by:
Cornelia Meigs
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
211. 
The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings, Prayers, and Sayings of St. Thérèse 4.43 avg rating — 19,754 ratings
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240. 
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive 4.42 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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240. 
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by:
Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating — 8,387 ratings 240. 
If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women
by:
Nikki R. Haley
3.87 avg rating — 806 ratings 240. 
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 240. 
One More Valley, One More Hill: The Story of Aunt Clara Brown
by:
Linda Lowery
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings 240. 
Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows: The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Henie
by:
Raymond Strait
3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings 
255. 
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1)
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.84 avg rating — 7,275 ratings 
255. 
The Calling: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries
by:
Hussein Ahdieh
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 255. 
The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes
by:
Eloise Moran
3.97 avg rating — 460 ratings 255. 
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
by:
Emma Southon
4.20 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 255. 
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
by:
Leonie Frieda
3.38 avg rating — 408 ratings 255. 
The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
by:
Amy Klobuchar
3.96 avg rating — 314 ratings 
263. 
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India
by:
Harleen Singh
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 
263. 
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
263. 
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
by:
Will Harlan
4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings 
263. 
The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
by:
Amy Klobuchar
3.96 avg rating — 314 ratings 
273. 
Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by:
Zainab Salbi
4.23 avg rating — 3,064 ratings 
273. 
Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal
by:
Ritu Menon
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
273. 
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
273. 
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
by:
Paul French
3.72 avg rating — 248 ratings 
281. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by:
Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings 281. 
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by:
Greg Lawrence
3.69 avg rating — 545 ratings 
281. 
Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
by:
Sarah B. Pomeroy
4.41 avg rating — 96 ratings 281. 
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
by:
Lydia Reeder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,402 ratings 288. 
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
by:
Michael Jones
3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings 
288. 
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.05 avg rating — 371 ratings 288. 
288. 
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
by:
Kathleen Krull
4.31 avg rating — 2,227 ratings 
288. 
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
by:
Diane Jacobs
3.89 avg rating — 511 ratings 
295. 
Martha Berry - A Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams
by:
Joyce Blackburn
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings 295. 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
by:
Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,348 ratings 295. 
