Women's History Month

👩‍🚀👩‍🎨 Nonfiction, biographies, and memoirs for Women's History Month 👩‍🎓👩‍🚒

Updated January 15, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
This is your list in printable form. Simply print this page using your browser's print command.

Women's History Month

👩‍🚀👩‍🎨 Nonfiction, biographies, and memoirs for Women's History Month 👩‍🎓👩‍🚒

Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Eve : How the Female Body Shaped Human Evolution : Adapted for Young Adults
Bohannon, Cat.
Paper Book
The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller is now adapted for young adults!  This is the 200-million-year story of how the female body gave rise to the human species and forever shaped life on Earth and what that means for us in the future. Why do women live longer...
The Furies : Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Flock, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
"Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects' autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely withholds...
Up to Speed : The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes
Yu, Christine 1976-
Paper Book
Over the last 50 years, women have made extraordinary advances in athletics, accomplishing incredible feats and smashing long-held beliefs about the limits of their physical capabilities. Today, more women than ever are playing sports and staying active longer. Whether they're elite athletes looking...
Mother tongue : the surprising history of women's words
Nuttall, Jennifer Anne 1975-
Paper Book
"A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor." ―Lisa Selin Davis, The...
Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation
Miles, Tiya 1970-
Paper Book
Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess...
Everything I need I get from you : how fangirls created the Internet as we know it
Tiffany, Kaitlyn 1993-
Paper Book
One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022. Named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Vanity Fair and TIME. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "On the internet, fandom can be a route...
Disobedient women : how a small group of faithful women exposed abuse, brought down powerful pastors, and ignited an evangelical reckoning
Stankorb, Sarah
Paper Book
In this national bestseller, journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet--its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply researching and reporting on powerful church figures--allowed women to begin dismantling the false authority of evangelical communities that...
The missing thread : a women's history of the ancient world
Dunn, Daisy
Paper Book
One of The Smithsonian's 10 best history books of 2024 One of BBC History Magazine's best books of 2024 "Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been."<...
Never Saw Me Coming : How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System - and Pocketed $40 Million
Smith, Tanya.
Paper Book
Named Amazon Editor's Pick and one of the Best Books of the Month for August 2024.  A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions--who eventually...
The story of art without men
Hessel, Katy 1994-
Paper Book
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of...
Songs she wrote : forty hits by pioneering women of popular music
Garber, Michael G.
Paper Book
Women built the popular song industry of Tin Pan Alley, yet many of their stories have seldom been told. They blazed the trail for women in music today and set an inspiring example for generations to come. Songs She Wrote celebrates women's contributions to popular music by looking...
Black women taught us : An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Jackson, Jenn M.
Paper Book
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like--from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue. "Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar....
Find this list online

https://librarian.syndetics.com/syndeticsunbound/lp/156.410/list/5117

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.