Women’s History Month Resources at the Library

February 22, 2022 in Carousel, News, Uncategorized

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
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Mae Jemison: the First African American Woman Astronaut by Liza N. Burby
Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
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
Who Was Sojourner Truth? by Yona Seldis McDonough
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
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
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
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.

Teens

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Creator: The First Science Fiction Writer by Joan Kane Nichols
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

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**
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**
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
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
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
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
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

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)

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