International Women's Day

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality. International Women's Day 2026 theme is 'Give To Gain'.

Give To Gain emphasizes the power of reciprocity and support. When people, organizations, and communities give generously, opportunities and support for women increase. Giving is not a subtraction, it's intentional multiplication. When women thrive, we all rise.

Updated February 18, 2026
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To the Moon and Back : A Novel
Ramage, Eliana.
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations." --Reese Witherspoon"" font-size:="" open="" /> "" font-size:="" open="" /> "Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the...
Walking with Beth : Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend
Simonds, Merilyn.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Merilyn Simonds's Walking with Beth allows us to eavesdrop on two women, one already a centenarian, talking frankly about what scares us all: growing old. It's a book with a unique take on longevity, full of wisdom, tenderness, joy and the passions...
The women on platform two
Anthony, Laura
Paper Book
Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home
Penner, Brittany
Paper Book
*AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her...
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
Named One of The New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Books of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that "pulses with...
Breakaway : The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game
Donkin, Karissa.
Paper Book
When the first puck dropped in the Professional Women's Hockey League in January 2024, it had been a long time coming. Women have been playing hockey since at least 1890 and playing professionally for decades. But until 2024, even the highest-level female players had never been compensated as...
Spectacular things : a novel
Dorey-Stein, Beck
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Two sisters examine what they owe each other and what they are willing to sacrifice to make their dreams come true in this "epic story" (Reese Witherspoon) from New York Times bestselling author Beck Dorey-Stein. What would you give up for the...
The Astonishing Lives of Older Women : How to Create Pleasure over Peril in Peak Longevity
Welsh, Moira.
Paper Book
The Astonishing Lives of Older Women offers both cautionary tales from courageous women and practical financial insights, empowering women to navigate the challenges of career decisions, family responsibilities, and long-term financial planning with greater awareness and confidence. A powerful...
Women who woke up the law : inside the cases that changed women's rights in Canada
Wells, Karin
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of The Abortion Caravanand More Than a Footnote "Who was the woman trying to convince a jury in a tiny courthouse in Nova Scotia that it was self-defense when she killed her partner; and who was the young woman walking into the palais de justice in small-town...
Finding my way : a memoir
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! | A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority's coming of age." --The New York Times This is not the story you think you know...
Care and feeding : a memoir
Woolever, Laurie
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating culinary memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy In this moving, hilarious, and insightful...
The everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring dark teal sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations! Instant New York Times bestseller * USA Today bestseller * National Indie bestseller October 2025 LibraryReads Hall...
All things under the moon : a novel
Choi, Ann Y. K.
Paper Book
Pachinko meets Beasts of a Little Land in this stunning, evocative tale, set in 1920s Korea, of one seemingly ordinary woman--an uneducated villager living under Japanese occupation--who takes control of her own destiny and rises to become an advocate for women's literacy as a force...
It was the way she said it : short stories, essays, and wisdom
McMillan, Terry
Paper Book
"This stunning collection from one of the great writers on Black culture covers the gamut- aging, love, poverty, trauma and plenty of lightness in between."-People From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and...
The book club for troublesome women : a novel
Bostwick, Marie
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in...
Kuleana : a story of family, land, and legacy in old Hawai'i
Goo, Sara Kehaulani
Paper Book
Set in one of the world's most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist's effort to hold on to her family's ancestral Hawaiian lands--and find herself along the way. "A powerful story of land, belonging, loss, and survival that...
Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir about Taking up Space
Swan, Susan
Paper Book
A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK OF THE YEAR "[Swan's writing offers] not only an enjoyable read, but also the chance to think and reflect on the vast complex living entity that is the world." --Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk Where do we belong if we don't fit...
How to Breathe Water
Butala, Sharon
Paper Book
A road trip through the prairies prompts acclaimed writer Sharon Butala to unearth the stories of the natural world around her, and at the same time revisit her own personal histories. After an isolating and demoralizing year during the COVID-19 pandemic, a friend invites Sharon Butala to...
Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir
Drolet, Gabrielle
Paper Book
A humorous, profound debut memoir about chronic pain, accessibility, and young adulthood, by an acclaimed essayist and cartoonist. In 2021, Gabrielle Drolet developed a condition that made her unable to use her hands. It only worsened over time, and as a writer and artist, she...
Soft as bones : a memoir
Sage, Chyana Marie
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A CBC Best Book of 2025 A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing In candid, incisive, and delicate prose, Chyana Marie Sage shares the...
The collected regrets of Clover
Brammer, Mikki
Paper Book
USA Today Bestseller * Best Book of 2023 by NPR "This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound...
Take my hand
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction "Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze...an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption."--Celeste Ng Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a...
True Gretch : what I've learned about life, leadership, and everything in between
Whitmer, Gretchen
Paper Book
From trailblazing Michigan governor, Democratic leader, and national advocate for women's rights, Gretchen Whitmer, comes an unconventional and deeply personal account of her life and career--"Not your nana's ponderous political memoir" (New York magazine)--offering insights into her...
Outspoken : my fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan
Samar, Sima
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS NATIONAL BESTSELLER The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and...
We refuse : a forceful history of Black resistance
Jackson, Kellie Carter
Paper Book
An "unsparing, erudite, and incisive" (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance--both nonviolent and violent--to white supremacy Named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus *...
No more nice girls : gender, power, and why it's time to stop playing by the rules
McKeon, Lauren
Paper Book
A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching convention, and building a more equitable world for everyone. In the age of girl bosses, Beyoncé, and...
Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
Reid, Eliza
Ebook
The Canadian first lady of Iceland pens a book about why this tiny nation is leading the charge in gender equality, in the vein of The Moment of Lift. Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic...
What she said : conversations about equality
Renzetti, Elizabeth
Paper Book
The fight for women's rights was supposed to have been settled. Or, to put it another way, women were supposed to have settled - for what we were grudgingly given, for the crumbs from the table that we had set. For thirty per cent of the seats in Canada's Parliament; for five per cent of the CEO's...
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human
Lesser, Elizabeth
Paper Book
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her What if women had been the storytellers Elizabeth Lesser...
Cher : the memoir, part one
Cher
Paper Book
***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller*** ***The Global #1 Bestseller*** The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself. After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own...
The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever
Reeder, Lydia
Paper Book
"Valiant and timely .... reintroduces its subject as a hero for this moment." ―The New York Times How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them ...
Ice in Their Veins: Women's Relentless Pursuit of the Puck
Kennedy, Ian
Paper Book
Women have been playing hockey since the beginning--but their fights took place off the ice. Hockey wasn't meant to include girls. Women attracted to the speed, finesse and physicality of the game had to overcome condescending attitudes, lack of resources, legal barriers and even...
Women living deliciously
Given, Florence
Paper Book
In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women to rediscover their joy, reject toxic wellness culture, and redefine feminism for themselves. Women Living Deliciously wants us to fall in love with our lives. It will help...
Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk
Hanna, Kathleen
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna's...
Dare I say it : everything I wish I'd known about menopause
Watts, Naomi
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "refreshingly real" (People) guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness--with a foreword by Mary Claire Haver, MD, author of The New Menopause "This book will...
Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story
Oriuwa, Chika Stacy
Paper Book
In this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor. From childhood, Chika Oriuwa dreamed of being a doctor. She knew that she was destined to wear the white coat one day, no matter what it took. The...
We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people
Nenquimo, Nemonte
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Library Journal "An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick) ...
By Any Other Name: A Novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an "inspiring" (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart--one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare's plays--who are both forced to hide behind another name. ...
The Water Outlaws
Huang, S. L.
Paper Book
Paperback edition includes a Locus-Award Finalist Novelette! A Best-Of Pick for Vulture | The Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Men's Health | IGN | Polygon | Goodreads | Amazon | Nerd Daily |...
Invisible Labor The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
Somerstein, Rachel.
Ebook
Men have called her crazy : a memoir
Tendler, Anna Marie
Paper Book
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "This book is so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award...
I will scream to the world
Dukureh, Jaha
Paper Book
On the wedding night of her first arranged marriage, fifteen-year-old Jaha learned that she had undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as an infant. That painful discovery, coupled with her experiences with a second arranged marriage, set Jaha on her path as an activist - a courageous mission...
Ella : a novel
Richards, Diane
Paper Book
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century. When fifteen-year...
Dear Black girls : how to be true to you
Wilson, A'ja
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Through honest stories and inspiring lessons from her life, A'ja Wilson reminds us to never doubt who we are or apologize for being true to ourselves. Dear Black Girls is a must-read for every Black girl out there." &...
I Never Said That I Was Brave: A Novel
Jamal, Tasneem
Paper Book
A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal. Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents'. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator...

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