Popsugar 2025 #32 - A Book About an Overlooked Woman in History
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of Americaβs Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating β 176,436 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 β 64,244 ratings 
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
by:
Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating β 29,352 ratings 
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating β 7,515 ratings 
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Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
by:
Julia Cooke
3.65 avg rating β 13,848 ratings 14. 
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by:
Kate Moore
4.29 avg rating β 37,606 ratings 15. 
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
by:
Shelley Puhak
4.08 avg rating β 4,852 ratings 
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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation 3.62 avg rating β 2,413 ratings
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
by:
Camille Laurens
3.47 avg rating β 944 ratings 22. 
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
by:
Cynthia Hand
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 79,092 ratings 22. 
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
by:
Emma Southon
4.16 avg rating β 2,769 ratings 24. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating β 31,442 ratings 24. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating β 6,508 ratings 
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What Happened to BelΓ©n: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's Rights Movement
by:
Ana Elena Correa
4.20 avg rating β 122 ratings 29. 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by:
Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating β 6,475 ratings 
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating β 29,163 ratings 
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by:
Rebecca Hall
4.27 avg rating β 5,748 ratings 34. 
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
by:
Marissa Moss
4.13 avg rating β 525 ratings 35. 
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
by:
Tina Cassidy
4.19 avg rating β 459 ratings 35. 
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 β 58,221 ratings 37. 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
by:
Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating β 23,147 ratings 38. 
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
by:
Ann Shen
4.04 avg rating β 5,243 ratings 39. 
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age 3.51 avg rating β 1,528 ratings
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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 β 2,440 ratings 
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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 β 8,387 ratings 40. 
Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees
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Diana P. Parsell
4.15 avg rating β 26 ratings 
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The Northwomen: Untold Stories From the Other Half of the Viking World
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Heather Pringle
4.04 avg rating β 258 ratings 40. 
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
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Sue Macy
4.27 avg rating β 604 ratings 40. 
The Memoirs of Lady HyegyΕng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
by:
Lady Hyegyeong
4.02 avg rating β 924 ratings 
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Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
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Dahlia Lithwick
4.38 avg rating β 3,013 ratings 
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by:
Ilyon Woo
3.98 avg rating β 17,470 ratings 40. 
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The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America
by:
Kathleen Krull
4.39 avg rating β 576 ratings 63. 
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
by:
Nathalia Holt
3.89 avg rating β 2,799 ratings 
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
SiΓ’n Evans
3.74 avg rating β 1,068 ratings 67. 
Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space
by:
Cristen Conger
4.15 avg rating β 897 ratings 
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by:
Eve LaPlante
3.59 avg rating β 1,741 ratings 67. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating β 39,747 ratings 67. 
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power 4.34 avg rating β 172 ratings
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Capital Dames: the Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
by:
Cokie Roberts
3.83 avg rating β 2,200 ratings 
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
by:
Mattie Kahn
3.75 avg rating β 454 ratings 81. 
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest 3.99 avg rating β 624 ratings
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
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Cokie Roberts
3.83 avg rating β 2,417 ratings 81. 
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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 β 4,563 ratings 
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant 4.12 avg rating β 1,252 ratings
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
by:
Julie Satow
3.91 avg rating β 4,736 ratings 88. 
Lady Icarus: Balloonomania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard
by:
Deborah Noyes
3.76 avg rating β 34 ratings 
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
by:
Lynn Povich
3.67 avg rating β 3,821 ratings 88. 
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World 4.02 avg rating β 2,318 ratings
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Baseball's Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues
by:
Andrea Williams
3.96 avg rating β 161 ratings 93. 
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Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
by:
Elizabeth Lesser
4.06 avg rating β 5,400 ratings 93. 
MYTH OF THE WELFARE QUEEN: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist's Portrait of Women on the Line
by:
David Zucchino
4.30 avg rating β 273 ratings 
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The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
by:
ClΓ©ment Xavier
4.29 avg rating β 467 ratings 
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime 3.68 avg rating β 583 ratings