Women's History Month

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

Updated January 15, 2026
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Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex?...
The Furies : Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Flock, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
'An arresting, deeply reported new book' Washington Post 'This gripping, inflaming book, itself an act of fury, shows how revenge can transmute into politics or be crushed by it' Larissa MacFarquhar 'Flock has a novelist's knack for creating...
Mother tongue : the surprising history of women's words
Nuttall, Jennifer Anne 1975-
Paper Book
A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical marvels and their...
The missing thread : a women's history of the ancient world
Dunn, Daisy
Paper Book
'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are restored to the centre of the story of classical antiquity. It was a joy to read'...
Never Saw Me Coming : How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System - and Pocketed $40 Million
Smith, Tanya.
Paper Book
'Powerfully entertaining. A true thriller of resilience and defiance' JANELLE MONÁE 'Tanya Smith's story is unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving. Never Saw Me Coming is a wild ride from start to finish. She is my hero' ISSA RAE The true story...
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? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA...

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