Women's History Month

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

Updated January 15, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Audiobook
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score...
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...
The missing thread : a women's history of the ancient world
Dunn, Daisy
Ebook
A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center--from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of...
Never Saw Me Coming : How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System - and Pocketed $40 Million
Smith, Tanya.
Ebook
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 loses everything that is most important to her.   In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares...
Black women taught us : An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Jackson, Jenn M.
Ebook
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....

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