Women's History Month Nonfiction 2025

For 2025

Updated January 29, 2025
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The art of power : my story as America's first woman Speaker of the House
Pelosi, Nancy
Paper Book
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker--how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi,...
Connie : a memoir
Chung, Connie
Paper Book
In a sharp, witty memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung pulls no punches in detailing her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry--"an absorbing look at a pioneering news figure" (...
Freedom : memoirs 1954-2021
Merkel, Angela
Paper Book
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and...
Good for a girl : a woman running in a man's world
Fleshman, Lauren
Paper Book
* A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award * A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023 Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal...
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."<...
Rebel rising : a memoir
Wilson, Rebel
Audiobook
She-wolves : the untold history of women on Wall Street
Bren, Paulina
Paper Book
First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the "smart cookies" who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who were in for a rude awakening because an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. But...
Sisters in science : how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history
Campbell, Olivia
Paper Book
The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions...
The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts
Grush, Loren
Paper Book
"Vivid." --The Guardian * "Engrossing." --Booklist * "Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening." --Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures In this account of America's first women astronauts "Grush...
Traveling : on the path of Joni Mitchell
Powers, Ann
Paper Book
*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. "What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and...
Traveling without moving : essays from a Black woman trying to survive in America
Coleman, Taiyon
Paper Book
A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class in the fraught nexus of a Black woman's personal experience and cultural history   The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems to be the only Black family on your...
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...
Unbecoming a lady : the forgotten sluts and shrews that shaped America
Oneill, Therese
Paper Book
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren't attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until now, from New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill. ...
Women in the Valley of the Kings : the untold story of women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
Sheppard, Kathleen L.
Audiobook

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