Women Writing History
1. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,029 ratings 
7. 
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
by:
Diana Preston
4.05 avg rating β 872 ratings 7. 
A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
by:
Robyn Annear
4.02 avg rating β 83 ratings 7. 
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
by:
Urmila Pawar
4.40 avg rating β 35 ratings 7. 
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 avg rating β 6,408 ratings 7. 
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
by:
Rebecca Fraser
3.97 avg rating β 648 ratings 7. 
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
by:
Julie Lindahl
3.74 avg rating β 444 ratings 
7. 
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 7. 
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
by:
Leigh Lewis
4.10 avg rating β 137 ratings 
18. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by:
Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating β 911 ratings 
18. 
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
by:
Frances Welch
3.42 avg rating β 146 ratings 
18. 
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
by:
Ritu Menon
4.20 avg rating β 142 ratings 18. 
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating β 9,481 ratings
18. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
by:
Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating β 21,529 ratings 
27. 
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
by:
Hanne Blank
3.78 avg rating β 1,118 ratings 
27. 
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
by:
Joanna Denny
4.03 avg rating β 3,102 ratings 27. 
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 avg rating β 5,120 ratings 27. 
Making a Difference Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India
by:
Ritu Menon
3.20 avg rating β 10 ratings 
27. 
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating β 1,342 ratings
36. 
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
by:
Sara Marcus
3.95 avg rating β 8,795 ratings 
36. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating β 3,033 ratings 36. 
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.17 avg rating β 1,433 ratings 36. 
Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal
by:
Ritu Menon
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 9 ratings 
43. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β 989,241 ratings
50. 
Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits
by:
Norah Lofts
4.27 avg rating β 15 ratings 50. 
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.05 avg rating β 371 ratings 50. 
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
by:
Adrienne Mayor
3.95 avg rating β 2,198 ratings 50. 
How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
by:
Frances Wilson
3.48 avg rating β 829 ratings 50. 
Rewriting history: The life and times of Pandita Ramabai
by:
Uma Chakravarti
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings 55. 
55. 
The Emergency: A Personal History
by:
Coomi Kapoor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,068 ratings 62. 
Jassy / Bless This House / Scent of Cloves / How Far to Bethlehem?
by:
Norah Lofts
4.61 avg rating β 33 ratings 
62. 
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 
66. 
Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
by:
Norah Lofts
4.29 avg rating β 207 ratings 
70. 
Van Diemen's Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania
by:
Joan Kavanagh
3.62 avg rating β 39 ratings 
70. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating β 10 ratings 
76. 
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
by:
Edith Hall
3.93 avg rating β 730 ratings 
76. 
Alexander the Great at War: His Army - His Battles - His Enemies
by:
Ruth Sheppard
3.72 avg rating β 88 ratings 76. 
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating β 189 ratings 80. 
Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions 4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
80. 
Rome at War: Caesar and His Legacy (Essential Histories Specials 6)
by:
Kate Gilliver
3.59 avg rating β 37 ratings 
86. 
88. 
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution
by:
Rebecca L. Spang
4.36 avg rating β 42 ratings 
90. 
The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300
by:
Gillian Polack
4.01 avg rating β 72 ratings 
94. 
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910
by:
Sue Roe
3.79 avg rating β 1,673 ratings 
96. 
Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine
by:
Anna Reid
4.01 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 
