International Women's Day 2026 - Nonfiction for Adults

March 8, 2026 is the 115th International Women's Day! This year's theme is "Give to Gain" so enjoy these reads highlighting women though history who have given their all to move the rights of women forward.

Updated March 6, 2026
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The club : where American women artists found refuge in Belle Époque Paris
Dasal, Jennifer
Paper Book
"Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation." -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Art Thief A...
The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s
Doherty, Maggie
Paper Book
The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still...
Misbehaving at the crossroads : essays & writings
Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
The visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times
Eilenberger, Wolfram
Ebook
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one...

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