Female Biographies
5. 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,907 ratings 
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
by:
Alison Weir
3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings 13. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,690 ratings 14. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings 
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
by:
Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by:
Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,073 ratings 
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 34. 
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 — 2,437 ratings 
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by:
Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,127 ratings 
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Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
by:
Carolly Erickson
3.84 avg rating — 1,374 ratings 
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating — 224,915 ratings 
54. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 
63. 
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by:
Cornelia Meigs
3.75 avg rating — 6,391 ratings 
65. 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by:
Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings 66. 
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,567 ratings 67. 
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 
69. 
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
by:
Julia Fox
3.81 avg rating — 3,483 ratings 
71. 
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
by:
Kate Williams
3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings 
73. 
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.89 avg rating — 171,412 ratings 74. 
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
by:
Elspeth Huxley
4.10 avg rating — 6,047 ratings 
76. 
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832
by:
Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by:
Julie Phillips
4.24 avg rating — 1,381 ratings 
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Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
by:
Kate Williams
3.95 avg rating — 3,651 ratings 93. 
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
by:
Nigel Nicolson
4.06 avg rating — 4,409 ratings 94. 
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
by:
Tara T. Green
4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings 
96. 
Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
by:
Janet Gleeson
3.89 avg rating — 655 ratings 97. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,260 ratings 98. 
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by:
Janet Wallach
3.81 avg rating — 6,039 ratings 99. 
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by:
Julia Fox
3.72 avg rating — 4,235 ratings 