Women's History Booklist
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Book recommendations pertaining to Women in History.
See also: Women's Suffrage
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulan: Before the Sword | Lin, Grace | 2020 | MG UMG | Early Civilization | 400 | Asia | China | Mulan Han Dynasty Mythology | F | CB |
| Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World | Miller, Brandon Marie | 2016 | YA A | Enlightenment | 1600-1750 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF Bio | B |
| Finding Wonders | Atkins, Jeannine | 2017 | MG | Enlightenment | 1647-1889 | Europe North America | Great Britain United States | Paleontology Astronomy Entemology Women in Science | NF | CB |
| Hour of the Witch | Bohjalian, Chris | 2021 | A | Enlightenment | 1662 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | F | N |
| My Name is Phillis Wheatley | Cooper, Afua | 2021 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1753-1784 | North America | United States | Phillis Wheatley Slavery Poets and Writers | NF Bio | CB |
| Independent Dames | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2008 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1765-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF Bio | PB |
| Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue | Casey, Susan | 2017 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF Bio | B |
| Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics | Thimmesh, Catherine | 2008 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1776-2007 | United States Great Britain Various | Activism Politics | NF Bio | PB | |
| Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution | Avi | 2013 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
| Susanna's Midnight Ride | McNamee, Libby Carty | 2018 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1781-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | N |
| The Fossil Girl | Brighton, Catherine | 2007 | LE | Industrial Age | 1811 | Europe | Great Britain | Paleontology Women in Science | NF | PB |
| This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South | Greenburg, Michael M. | 2016 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1815-1864 | North America | United States | Education Myrtilla Miner | NF Bio | B |
| Anatomy: A Love Story | Schwartz, Dana | 2022 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1817 | Europe | Great Britain | Medicine Graverobbers Women in Science | F | N |
| Immortality: A Love Story | Schwartz, Dana | 2023 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1818 | Europe | Great Britain | Medicine Graverobbers Women in Science | F | N |
| A World of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers and Adventurers | Ross, Michael Elsohn | 2014 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1840-2010 | North America | United States | Explorers | NF Bio | B |
| Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers | Miller, Brandon Marie | 2013 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1841–1868 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Prairie Life | NF Bio | B |
| Charlotte Mason: The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder | Gore, Lanaya | 2022 | UMG A | Industrial Age | 1842-1923 | Europe | Great Britain | Education Charlotte Mason Victorian Era | NF | PB |
| What Miss Mitchell Saw | Barrett, Hayley | 2019 | LE | Industrial Age | 1847 | North America | United States | Astronomy Women in Science | NF | PB |
| The Corpse Queen | Herrman, Heather M. | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1850 | North America | United States | Grave Robbers Women in Science | F | N |
| The Woman They Could Not Silence | Moore, Kate | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1860-1897 | North America | United States | women's rights Institutionalization Asylums | NF | B |
| The Story of Marie Curie | Katz, Susan B. | 2020 | MG | Industrial Age | 1867-1934 | Europe North America | Poland United States | Chemistry Women in Science | NF | CB |
| Jane Against the World | Blumenthal, Karen | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1873-2018 | North America | United States France | Activism Reproductive Rights | NF Bio | B |
| Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers | Lewis, Anna M. | 2014 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1876-1980 | North America | United States | Building | NF Bio | B |
| The Mad Girls of New York: A Nellie Bly Novel | Rodale, Maya | 2022 | Adult | Modern Age | 1887 | North America | USA | Gilded Age Writing Journalism Nellie Bly | F | N |
| A Curious Beginning | Raybourn, Deanna | 2015 | A | Industrial Age | 1887 | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era Women in Science | F | N |
| Audacity | Crowder, Melanie | 2016 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1898-1950 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Activism | F | N |
| She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World | Ross, Michael Elsohn | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1900-2015 | North America | United States France | Activism | NF Bio | B |
| The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy | Caravantes, Peggy | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1906-1975 | North America | United States France | Josephine Baker | NF Bio | B |
| Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 | Carson, Mary Kay | 2013 | LE | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States | Clara Lemlich Labor Strike | NF | PB |
| Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | Marrin, Albert | 2011 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | NF | CB |
| Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys | Gibson, Karen Bush | 2013 | YA A | Modern Age | 1911-2000 | North America | United States | Aviation Women's Aviation | NF Bio | B |
| Uprising | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | F | CB |
| Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins | Atwood, Kathryn J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1912-1944 | Asia | Various | WWII Women's Aviation | NF Bio | B |
| Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics | Atwood, Karen J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1914-1918 | Europe | Various | WWI | NF Bio | B |
| A Bend in the Stars | Barenbaum, Rachel | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1914 | Russia | Russia | Russian Revolution Women in Science | F | N |
| Lone Women | LaValle, Victor | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1915 | North America | United States | Horror Westward Expansion | HF | N |
| King Nyx | Bakis, Kirsten | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1918 | North America | United States | gothic Feminism | F | N |
| Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 | Becker, Helaine | 2018 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1918-1969 | North America | United States | Space Math Space Race | NF Bio | PB |
| How Women Won the Vote | Campbell Bartoletti, Susan | 2020 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting Activism | NF | PB |
| A Book, Too, Can Be a Star | Jones Voiklis, Charlotte | 2022 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1920-1962 | North America | United States | Madeleine L'Engle Poets and Writers | NF Bio | PB |
| Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" | Caravantes, Peggy | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1921-1983 | North America | United States | Ada Blackjack Explorers | NF Bio | B |
| The Degenerates | Mann, J. Albert | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1928 | North America | United States | Institutionalization LGBTQ+ eugenics Asylums | F | N |
| The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Richardson, Kim Michele | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1930 | North America | United States | Great Depression | F | N |
| Women Heroes of World War II―the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival | Atwood, Kathryn J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1932-1945 | Asia | Various | WWII | NF Bio | B |
| Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II | Mullenbach, Cheryl | 2013 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | North America | United States | WWII | NF Bio | B |
| Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent | Cornioley, Pearl Witherington | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | France Great Britain | WWII | NF Bio | B |
| The Woman With the Cure | Cullen, Lynn | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1963 | North America | United States | History of Science Women in Science Vaccines | F | N |
| Great or Nothing | McCullough, Joy Tung Richmond, Caroline Sharpe, Tess Spotswood, Jessica | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1942-1943 | North America Europe | United States Great Britain | WWII American Home Front Little Women Retelling | F | N |
| Miss Benson's Beetle | Joyce, Rachel | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | Oceania | Great Britain New Caledonia | History of Science Women in Science | F | N |
| Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More | Atwood, Karen J. | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1955-1975 | Asia | Vietnam | Vietnam War | NF Bio | B |
| Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures | Gibson, Karen Bush | 2014 | YA A | Modern Age | 1963-2012 | North America | United States | Space | NF Bio | B |
| Bad Girls Never Say Die | Mathieu, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1964 | North America | United States | Social Classes Feminism | F | N |
| Looking for Jane | Marshall, Heather | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1971-2017 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
| Cub | Copeland, Cynthia L. | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1972 | North America | USA | Writing Journalism | F | GN |
| Malala’s Magic Pencil | Yousafzai, Malala | 2018 | LE | Modern Age | 2007 | Middle East | Pakistan | Education Women's Rights | NF | PB |
| I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World | Yousafzai, Malala | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 2012 | Middle East | Pakistan | Education Women's Rights | NF | CB |
| Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights | Yousafzai, Malala | 2018 | LE | Modern Age | 2012 | Middle East | Pakistan | Education Women's Rights | NF | CB |
| I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban | Yousafzai, Malala | 2015 | YA | Modern Age | 2012 | Middle East | Pakistan | Education Women's Rights | NF | N |
| The Fight for Midnight | Solomon, Dan | 2023 | YA | Modern Age | 2013 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
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| Reading Age | Genre | Format |
| LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |