#CrackingTheCode: Non Fiction

General Non Fiction

Updated February 26, 2023
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Fight like a girl
Ford, Clementine
Paper Book
  'This rallying cry will persuade you to battle for true equality' Stylist An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be.
A room of one's own
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but...
Malala : my story of standing up for girls' rights
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
A thousand ships
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year "Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of Circe Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for...
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...
Bad feminist : essays
Gay, Roxane
Paper Book
"Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there."  -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be...
Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
Farrow, Ronan
Paper Book
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max.  In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests...
Breaking through bias : communication techniques for women to succeed at work
Kramer, Andrea S.
Paper Book
More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation...
Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
Quinn, Susan
Paper Book
In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. A lifeline came to her in the form of a feisty campaign reporter for the Associated Press: Lorena Hickok. Over the next 30 years, until Eleanor's death,...
Everything's trash, but it's okay
Robinson, Phoebe
Paper Book
2 Dope Queens star Phoebe Robinson is ready to share everything she's experienced in the hope that, if you can laugh at her topsy-turvy life, you can laugh at your own. Written in her trademark unfiltered, witty style, Robinson's latest essay collection is a call to arms. She tackles a wide range of...
Feminism is...
Black, Alexandra
Paper Book
"This book is something I wish I could have read when I was younger." --Roxane Gay, from the foreword of Feminism Is... It didn't just start with #MeToo. Today's feminism is more diverse than ever before and asks all kinds of questions. Combining insightful text...
Feminist Baby
Brantz, Loryn
Paper Book
Feminist Baby likes pink and blue. Sometimes she'll throw up on you! Feminist Baby chooses what to wear and if you don't like it she doesn't care! Meet the irrepressible Feminist Baby in this refreshing, clever board book about a girl who's not afraid to do...
Gender : a graphic guide
Barker, Meg-John
Paper Book
`An outstanding work¿ ¿ CN Lester, author of Trans Like Me Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (`Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender¿ VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity `toxic¿? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How...
Frida Kahlo : making her self up
Wilcox, Claire
Paper Book
Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa's Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up presents a unique window into the artist's life. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively...
Girl Decoded
el Kaliouby, Rana
Paper Book
In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling--to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD * ...
Good night stories for rebel girls. 2
Cavallo, Francesca
Paper Book
«Este maravilloso libro les enseña a las niñas que pueden ser lo que quieran».-- Melinda Gates «Una lectura indispensable para niñas y también para niños; aquellos que lean esto a la hora de dormir tienen garantizados sueños increíbles e inspiradores». -- Fiona Nobre, The...
Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
Schulman, Michael
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep--the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three--that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with...
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American...
It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
Khan, Mariam
Paper Book
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who...
Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead
Sandberg, Sheryl.
Paper Book
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.  In her famed TED...
Malala's magic pencil
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala...
I should have honor : a memoir of hope and pride in Pakistan
Brohi, Khalida
Paper Book
A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment "Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and...
My body
Ratajkowski, Emily
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps...
My life in full
Nooyi, Indra
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller   An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and...
Mutual Admiration Society
Moulton, Mo
Paper Book
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay...
Mother Teresa
S©?nchez Vegara, Ma Isabel
Paper Book
Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Mother Teresa, along with her message of love and charity. Agnes (later to become Mother Teresa) was born in Skopje, North Macedonia. She was raised to love God and...
My own words
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper...
Our stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
Reed, Amy Lynn
Paper Book
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
De Hart, Jane Sherron
Paper Book
The first full life--private, public, legal, philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews...
Queen Boudica's secret diary
Deary, Terry
Paper Book
"They took the road in Waycross Georgia / Skipped over the tracks in East St. Louis / Took the bus from Holly Springs / Hitched a ride from Gee's Bend / Took the long way through Memphis / The third deck down from Trinidad / A wrench of the heart from Goree Island / A wrench of the heart from Goree...
Sontag : her life
Moser, Benjamin
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of...

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