Women's History Month

Updated: Feb 24, 2021

Secret agents, artists, scientists, judges and even Kings. Throughout the ages, women have ruled the world from the thrown and from under cover. This is a list of my top 16 books relating to Women's History.

WOMEN'S HISTORY BOOK LIST

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, by Kara Cooney

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, by Andrea J. Ritchie

The Radium Girls (The Dark Story of America's Shining Women), by Kate Moore

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, by Tori Telfer

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts (Gift for Teenage Girls, Gift for Daughters, Social Activist Biographies), Ntozake Shange

Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, by William Stevenson

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World, by Rosalind Miles

A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY), by Diana Ramey Berry

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, by Jane Sherron de Hart

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed The World, by Ann Shen

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World (Women in Science), by Rachel Ignotofsky

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (NATIONAL GEOGRA), by Kara Cooney

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong Women, Women Biographies, From the bestselling author of Women of Means) (Celebrating Women), by Marlene Wagman-Geller

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War, by Antonia Fraser

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History, by Kate Schatz

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