Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month. Check out these nonfiction books by and about women now to celebrate Women's History Month —or any time of the year you're looking to discover a new favorite read.

Updated March 14, 2025
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Adlington, Lucy.
Paper Book
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps.  At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young...
The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
Batalion, Judith
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a...
Three Women
Taddeo, Lisa.
Paper Book
NOW A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY * BETTY GILPIN * DeWANDA WISE * GABRIELLE CREEVY * with BLAIR UNDERWOOD "Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking." --Entertainment Weekly "A breathtaking and important book." --Cheryl Strayed "Extraordinary...A...
The watchmaker's daughter : the true story of World War II heroine Corrie Ten Boom
Loftis, Larry
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at...
A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator...

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