International Women's Day 8th March 2025

A selection of Fiction and non-fiction titles for adult readers as we promote and celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) 8th March 2025.

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

IWD belongs to all who care about women's equality.

If paper titles are not your thing browse our collection of International women's day related eAudio and eBooks at this link: Kirklees Libraries' eAudio and eBook collection.


Updated March 7, 2025
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My thoughts exactly
Allen, Lily
Paper Book
The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
Angelou, Maya.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Maya Angelou's classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. This Modern Library edition...
Women & power : a manifesto
Beard, Mary
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" -- "A modern feminist classic." From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.<...
Becoming
Obama, Michelle
Paper Book
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF...
Butter
Yuzuki, Asako
Audiobook
The silence factory
Collins, Bridget
Ebook
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A delicately woven novel with an utterly original premise, it ensnared me from the very first page." -- Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding--a captivating story of...
Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Dawson, Juno
Paper Book
"Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty's Royal Coven... expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." --The New York Times Book Review   "Talk about a gut punch of a novel. ...A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism,...
The Shadow Cabinet
Dawson, Juno
Ebook
"This entrancing mix of feminism, queerness, magic and power-hungry villains makes for an intoxicating reading experience." --Nerd Daily In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistible" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must...
Gentleman Jack : a biography of Anne Lister, regency landowner, seducer & secret diarist
Steidele, Angela
Ebook
Anne Lister was a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, a world traveller and an out lesbian during the Regency era - a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She wrote her diary in code derived from Ancient Greek, including details of her liaisons with women. Liberated by her money, she remained...
The wren, the wren
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an...
More than a woman
Moran, Caitlin
Ebook
The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another "hilarious neo-feminist manifesto" (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises--and, of course, feminism. A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto...
Face It: A Memoir
Harry, Debbie
Paper Book
Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK  Musician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie Harry is the...
Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS
Moaveni, Azadeh
Paper Book
A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State--based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. FINALIST FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
Endell Street the trailblazing women who ran World War One's most remarkable military hospital
Moore, Wendy
Ebook
The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and...

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