Women’s History Month Resources at the Library

From queens to anarchists, and from dancers to astronauts (and at least one who was both,) women have been making history since history began. Celebrate Women’s History Month with some of your favorite heroines (both real and fictional), and maybe even find some new ones on the list below.

At the Library

Children

• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad by David A. Adler

• A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David A. Adler

• A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David A. Adler

• • Rose Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty

• Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker

• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

• • Who is Malala Yousafzi? by Dinah Brown

• Mae Jemison: the First African American Woman Astronaut by Liza N. Burby

• • Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
  • Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
  • Frida Kahlo: the Artist Who Painted Herself by Margaret Frith 

• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

• • Reaching for the Moon: the Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine G. Johnson
  • Mother Jones: One Woman’s Fight for Labor by Betsy Harvey Kraft 
  • Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull
  • Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman by Monica Kulling
  • Girls Who Rocked the World:Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa by Michelle Roehm McCann
  • Who Was Sojourner Truth? by Yona Seldis McDonough
  • The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore
  • The Girl Who Thought In Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca
  • Get Ella to the Apollo by Lisa Mullarkey

• Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney

• • Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney 

• Who Was Susan B. Anthony? by Pam Pollack

• Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell

• • Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II by Sonia Purnell

• Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport

• Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell

• Sojourner Truth by Peter Roop

• • When Marian Sang: the True Recital of Marian Anderson, the Voice of a Century by Pam Muñoz Ryan 
  • Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz

• Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

• Sojourner Truth and the Voice of Freedom by Jane Shumate

• Harriet Tubman, a Woman of Courage by Renee Skelton

• A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America On the Moon by Suzanne Slade

• Mae Jemison by Jennifer Strand

• Helen Keller by George Sullivan

• Harriet Tubman by George Sullivan

• • Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson
  • Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh 

• Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life by Laurie Wallmark

• • Dolores Huerta: a Hero to Migrant Workers by Sarah Warren 

• Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter

• • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made Businesswoman by Della A. Yannuzzi

• Find the American Girl books! We have books about Felicity, Samantha, Kirsten, Molly, Kit, Julie, and Rebecca here at the library.
• Find the Nancy Drew books! 
• Find the Junie B. Jones books!

Teens

• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles

• Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga by Jennifer Croll

• • The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
  • Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
  • The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

• Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery

• • Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II by Cheryl Mullenbach

• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Creator: The First Science Fiction Writer by Joan Kane Nichols

• • Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes
  • Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama
  • When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
  • Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi 
  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

• Hidden Figures: the Untold True Story of Four African- American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly

• • Sonia Sotomayor: the First Latina Supreme Court Justice by John Torres
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

• I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzi

• We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzi

 

Adults

Note: you don’t need to restrict yourself to non-fiction– check out the historical fiction titles marked with a double asterisk (**)!

• The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington

• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez**

• • Pelosi by Molly Ball

• The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

• The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel by Marie Benedict**

• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict**

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict**

• • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon

• The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles**

• Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace by Jennifer Chiaverini**

• Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton

• The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

• Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle For the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois

• • She Came to Slay: the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

• Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family by Shelley Emling

• • Aretha: From These Roots by Aretha Franklin
  • My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D. Ginzberg

• • Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

• Mademoiselle Chanel by C. W. Gortner**

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory**

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah**

• Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison

• • Harriet Tubman: the Life and Stories by Jean McMahon Humez

• Dear Abigail: The Lives, Sorrows, Triumphs, and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs

• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd**

• • Ella Fitzgerald by Bud Kliment
  • American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

• Code Name Lise: The True Story of World War II’s Most Highly Decorated Woman by Larry Loftis

• Alice Paul: Equality For Women by Christina A. Lunardini

• • Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo

• The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste**

• Eleanor by David Michaelis

• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

• The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

• • Girl in Black and White: the Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens

• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

• The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani**

• • Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter

• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner**

• Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

• A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn**

• • Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped A First Lady by Susan Quinn

• Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

• D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

• The Women Who Made New York by Julie Scelfo

• The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall**

• The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See**

• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

• Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel

• The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

• • My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

• Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz

• Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife: A Novel by Alison Weir**

• • Find more historical fiction based on Tudor women by Alison Weir!

• Band of Sisters: A Novel by Laren Willig**

• The Quintland Sisters: A Novel by Shelley Wood**

Movies

• Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

• Ammonite

• Citizen Jane: Battle For the City

• The Danish Girl

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age

• Harriet

• Hidden Figures

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• RBG

• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

• Victoria: The Complete First Season

Borrow Online

Overdrive

• That Churchill Woman: A Novel by Stephanie Barron (available as ebook or audiobook)

• The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Lady Clementine: A Novel by Marie Benedict (available as ebook)

• Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell (available as ebook)

• The Girls by Emma Cline (available as ebook and audiobook)

• Sylvia and Marsha Start A Revolution! by Joy Ellison (available as ebook)

• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (available as audiobook)

• The Other Alcott: A Novel by Elise Hooper (available as ebook)

• Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality For All by Martha S. Jones (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee (available as ebook)

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (available as ebook or audiobook)

• The Huntress by Kate Quinn (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Island Queen by Vanessa Riley (available as ebook)

• We Came Here to Shine by Susie Orman Schnall (available as ebook or audiobook)

• American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt (available as ebook)

• The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner (available as ebook)

• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson (available as ebook or audiobook)

Hoopla

• A Light of Her Own by Carrie Callaghan (available as ebook)

• Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell (available as audiobook)

• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (available as audiobook)

• • Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (available as audiobook)

• Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper (available as ebook or audiobook)

• The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen (available as ebook or audiobook)

• My Notorious Life by Kate Manning (available as audiobook)

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs (available as audiobook)

Kanopy

• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

• Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed

• The Computers

• The Girls in the Band

• Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

• Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

• Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

• Rachel Carson: The Woman Who Launched the Modern Environmental Movement

• RBG

• The Sturgeon Queens: Four Generations of A Jewish Family Business in New York

• T’Aint Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

• The Triangle Fire

• Union Maids:Women Activists Share Their Experiences

• Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues