Unusual women in history

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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,209 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,148 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,593 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,631 ratings
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The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 623,986 ratings
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Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 138,056 ratings
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 211,208 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,961 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 269,004 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,065 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Geisha, a Life
Geisha, a Life 3.93 avg rating — 26,804 ratings
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Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches
Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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My Name Is Mary Sutter
My Name Is Mary Sutter 3.84 avg rating — 25,927 ratings
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Inés of My Soul
Inés of My Soul 3.99 avg rating — 32,313 ratings
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The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,155 ratings
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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 3.81 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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My Call to the Ring: A Memoir of a Girl Who Yearns to Box
My Call to the Ring: A Memoir of a Girl Who Yearns to Box 4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Women Will Save the World
Women Will Save the World 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist 4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings
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One Pair Of Hands
One Pair Of Hands 3.86 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure 3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Passion of Artemisia
The Passion of Artemisia 3.91 avg rating — 19,784 ratings
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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,883 ratings
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer 4.03 avg rating — 45,117 ratings
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley
A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Gloria Steinem: A Biography
Gloria Steinem: A Biography 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists 3.63 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Firebrand
The Firebrand 4.07 avg rating — 11,317 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,709 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,253 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,468 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,381 ratings
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Wise Child (Doran, #1)
Wise Child (Doran, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 9,896 ratings
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Domina (Biblioteca)
Domina (Biblioteca) 4.19 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 3.98 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas 4.04 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.93 avg rating — 768,699 ratings
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Geisha
Geisha 4.02 avg rating — 4,750 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,518 ratings
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch 3.88 avg rating — 29,042 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,779 ratings
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We of the Never Never
We of the Never Never 3.66 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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Island Beneath the Sea
Island Beneath the Sea 4.11 avg rating — 45,450 ratings
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic 3.97 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Here If You Need Me
Here If You Need Me 4.01 avg rating — 7,230 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,015 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s 4.19 avg rating — 77,379 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence 3.69 avg rating — 8,680 ratings
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years:
The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years: really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Lucretia
Lucretia 3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The White Rose
The White Rose really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Letters of a Javanese Princess
Letters of a Javanese Princess 4.08 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Ferraro: My Story
Ferraro: My Story 3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Queen Margot
Queen Margot 4.16 avg rating — 14,269 ratings
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Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell
Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess (Kolowalu Books (Paperback))
Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess (Kolowalu Books (Paperback)) 3.83 avg rating — 715 ratings
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Lady Franklin's Revenge
Lady Franklin's Revenge 3.78 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Bina Das: A Memoir
Bina Das: A Memoir
by: Bina Das
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists
Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric 3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Queen Of The Desert
Queen Of The Desert 3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings
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Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor 4.14 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Сила дівчат: маленькі історії великих вчинків
Сила дівчат: маленькі історії великих вчинків 4.34 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Viking's Kurdish Love: Females of Valor
The Viking's Kurdish Love: Females of Valor 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas 4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy 4.15 avg rating — 58,208 ratings
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age 3.80 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Jia
Jia 3.79 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic 3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings
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A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying
A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying 3.93 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Jump For Joy
Jump For Joy 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The White Umbrella
The White Umbrella 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
Uppity Women of Ancient Times 3.62 avg rating — 542 ratings
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
The Secret Life of Mrs. London 3.88 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
by: Don Brown
3.81 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Це зробила вона
Це зробила вона 4.46 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women 3.84 avg rating — 779 ratings
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The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
The Winter Palace (Catherine #1) 3.60 avg rating — 14,374 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,232 ratings
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Gadis Pantai
Gadis Pantai 4.14 avg rating — 4,956 ratings
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 45,993 ratings
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The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey 3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Thais of Athens
Thais of Athens 4.32 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal
Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Uppity Women of the New World
Uppity Women of the New World 3.76 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
by: Tosca Lee
4.07 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
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Travels in West Africa
Travels in West Africa 3.76 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Це теж зробила вона
Це теж зробила вона 4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
by: John Guy
3.94 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe 3.85 avg rating — 6,034 ratings
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