Women's History Written By Women
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,718 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 5. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,386 ratings 6. 
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings 
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,407 ratings 12. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,155 ratings 13. 
Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
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Sarah B. Pomeroy
3.99 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
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Rosalind Miles
3.80 avg rating — 4,180 ratings 18. 
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
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Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,200 ratings 26. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,837 ratings 27. 
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy
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Gerda Lerner
4.31 avg rating — 296 ratings 
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 32. 
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
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Lynne Olson
4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings 33. 
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
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Adrienne Mayor
4.13 avg rating — 1,245 ratings 
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,811 ratings
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
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Vicki León
3.49 avg rating — 635 ratings 
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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Alison Weir
3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings 
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Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen 3.93 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
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Elizabeth Beller
3.73 avg rating — 5,539 ratings 42. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings 43. 
Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100
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Max Dashu
4.43 avg rating — 116 ratings 44. 
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings 50. 
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
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Lillian Faderman
4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings 53. 
The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women's Rights in America
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Debran Rowland
4.13 avg rating — 205 ratings 54. 
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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Hunter S. Jones
4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings 55. 
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas 3.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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Julia P. Gelardi
4.06 avg rating — 2,618 ratings 58. 
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
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Laura Kaplan
4.33 avg rating — 3,399 ratings 
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Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
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Sheila Rowbotham
4.22 avg rating — 154 ratings 64. 
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
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Charisse Jones
4.16 avg rating — 704 ratings 65. 
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,514 ratings 68. 
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 71. 
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
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Karen Lindsey
4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,124 ratings 74. 
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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Melanie Rehak
3.76 avg rating — 3,232 ratings 
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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Tara T. Green
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,235 ratings 
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Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue 4.06 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York 3.72 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
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Anne Macdonald
4.04 avg rating — 688 ratings 
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
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Julie Kavanagh
3.41 avg rating — 369 ratings 90. 
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
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Pauli Murray
4.50 avg rating — 101 ratings 
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The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
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Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating — 13,807 ratings 92. 
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
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Susan Quinn
3.81 avg rating — 4,728 ratings 94. 
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Ladies In Waiting: From The Tudors To The Present Day
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Anne Somerset
3.67 avg rating — 316 ratings 97. 
Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution
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Olwen H. Hufton
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 98. 
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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Sarah Bradford
3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings 99. 
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
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Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 4,057 ratings 100. 
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
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Elena Favilli
4.32 avg rating — 42,929 ratings