Female Biographies
204. 
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
by:
Philippa Gregory
3.83 avg rating — 3,703 ratings 
215. 
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,199 ratings 216. 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
by:
Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,331 ratings 
218. 
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
by:
Iris Hay-Edie
4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings 
221. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,227 ratings 223. 
Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
by:
Olga Lengyel
4.41 avg rating — 20,394 ratings 
225. 
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
by:
Mark Shaw
3.74 avg rating — 2,638 ratings 
228. 
Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
230. 
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,519 ratings 
232. 
California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas
by:
Pénélope Bagieu
4.07 avg rating — 3,621 ratings 
235. 
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
by:
Nuala O'Faolain
3.64 avg rating — 5,103 ratings 236. 
Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane
by:
Linda Jucovy
3.57 avg rating — 164 ratings 236. 
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
by:
Laurie Lisle
4.14 avg rating — 2,380 ratings 236. 
Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond
by:
Erika Schelby
3.87 avg rating — 322 ratings 236. 
Nina's Journey: A Memoir of Stalin's Russia and the Second World War
by:
Nina Markovna
4.59 avg rating — 138 ratings 236. 
With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit and Grace
by:
Nikki R. Haley
4.24 avg rating — 4,264 ratings 
242. 
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
by:
Marion Meade
3.81 avg rating — 1,442 ratings 
244. 
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
by:
Celia Stahr
4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings 246. 
The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
by:
Linda Porter
4.04 avg rating — 3,411 ratings 246. 
Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
252. 
Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
by:
Michaela Haas
4.25 avg rating — 281 ratings 255. 
257. 
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess
by:
Kathryn Hughes
3.54 avg rating — 372 ratings 257. 
260. 
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by:
Lois W. Banner
3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings 260. 
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
by:
Lyndall Gordon
3.85 avg rating — 1,182 ratings 
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 4.51 avg rating — 37,428 ratings
276. 
The Beautiful Beast : The Life & Crimes of Ss-Aufseherin Irma Grese 3.48 avg rating — 80 ratings
276. 
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,530 ratings
280. 
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: A Personal Biography of Bette Davis 3.93 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
280. 
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
by:
Rhoda Janzen
3.19 avg rating — 32,481 ratings 
286. 
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 
286. 
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
by:
Raymond Arroyo
4.39 avg rating — 2,538 ratings 290. 
Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade
by:
Doris Beik
3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings 
294. 
The Saint and the Devil; Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, a Biographical Study in Good and Evil
by:
Frances Winwar
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 
294. 
Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
by:
Paula Gunn Allen
3.35 avg rating — 156 ratings 299. 
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
by:
Michael Jones
3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings 