Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month! Celebrate the history and literary contributions of women with these library titles.

This list was compiled by South Pasadena Public Library staff and members of the South Pasadena Public Library Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee.

Updated February 13, 2025
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We should all be feminists
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Ebook
**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a...
In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer. This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how...
The complete Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...
The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
_______________'An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood ... Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' - Grazia'In her small, potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende writes about the toxic effects of "machismo", combining wit with anger as she picks apart the...
Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good
Brown, Adrienne M.
Ebook
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of...
Know my name : a memoir
Miller, Chanel
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR 'Incredibly moving and haunting' Roxane Gay 'I read this book cover to cover and it stunned me' Jia Tolentino 'Powerful, honest and necessary' Marian Keyes 'To girls everywhere, I am...
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca
Paper Book
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until...
The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen
Paper Book
Aftershocks : a memoir
Owusu, Nadia
Paper Book
'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST 'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES 'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES 'One of the literary world's most promising new...
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Ebook
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people,...
13 ways of looking at a fat girl
Awad, Mona
Paper Book
'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY. 'Echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman' IRISH TIMES. Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing...
Little gods : a novel
Jin, Meng
Paper Book
An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart.
Circe : a novel
Miller, Madeline
Paper Book
The international Number One bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and...
Outlawed : a novel
North, Anna
Paper Book
All the lives we never lived : a novel
Roy, Anuradha
Paper Book
"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about for the summer"...
Salvage the bones : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn.
Ebook
_______________'A brilliantly pacy adventure story ... Ward writes like a dream' - The Times'Fresh and urgent' - New York Times'There's something of Faulkner to Ward's grand diction' - Guardian_______________WINNER OF THE NATIONAL...
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)
Paper Book
Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club choice New York Times bestseller 'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Thrilling' &★&★&★&★&★ Mail on Sunday All they wanted was the chance to...

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