Women’s History Month Resources

February 15, 2024 in Carousel

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

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II by Sonia Purnell
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America On the Moon by Suzanne Slade
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
Dolores Huerta: a Hero to Migrant Workers by Sarah Warren
Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport
Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman by Monica Kulling
Frida Kahlo: the Artist Who Painted Herself by Margaret Frith
Get Ella to the Apollo by Lisa Mullarkey
Girls Who Rocked the World:Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa by Michelle Roehm McCann
The Girl Who Thought In Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca
Harriet Tubman by George Sullivan
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad by David A. Adler
Harriet Tubman, a Woman of Courage by Renee Skelton
Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life by Laurie Wallmark
Helen Keller by George Sullivan
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Madam C.J. Walker: Self-Made Businesswoman by Della A. Yannuzzi
Mae Jemison by Jennifer Strand
Mae Jemison: the First African American Woman Astronaut by Liza N. Burby
Mother Jones: One Woman’s Fight for Labor by Betsy Harvey Kraft
Only Passing Through: the Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David A. Adler
The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore
Reaching for the Moon: the Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine G. Johnson
Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Sojourner Truth by Peter Roop
Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sojourner Truth and the Voice of Freedom by Jane Shumate
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
When Marian Sang: the True Recital of Marian Anderson, the Voice of a Century by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Who is Malala Yousafzi? by Dinah Brown
Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson
Who Was Sojourner Truth? by Yona Seldis McDonough
Who Was Susan B. Anthony? by Pam Pollack
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
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

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi
Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga by Jennifer Croll
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II by Cheryl Mullenbach
Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry by Mary Kenney
Hidden Figures: the Untold True Story of Four African- American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzi
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Creator: The First Science Fiction Writer by Joan Kane Nichols
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Sonia Sotomayor: the First Latina Supreme Court Justice by John Torres
Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzi
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizabeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield

Adults

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

Alice Paul: Equality For Women by Christina A. Lunardini
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
Aretha: From These Roots by Aretha Franklin
Band of Sisters: A Novel by Laren Willig**
Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc by Polly Schoyer Brooks
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Code Name Lise: The True Story of World War II’s Most Highly Decorated Woman by Larry Loftis
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose
Dear Abigail: The Lives, Sorrows, Triumphs, and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
Eleanor by David Michaelis
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped A First Lady by Susan Quinn
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D. Ginzberg
Ella Fitzgerald by Bud Kliment
Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace by Jennifer Chiaverini**
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah**
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Girl in Black and White: the Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
Harriet Tubman: the Life and the Life Stories by Jean McMahon Humez
Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez**
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd**
Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See**
Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife: A Novel by Alison Weir**
Find more historical fiction based on Tudor women by Alison Weir!
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner**
Mademoiselle Chanel by C. W. Gortner**
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family by Shelley Emling
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel by Marie Benedict**
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict**
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory**
The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles**
Pelosi by Molly Ball
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict**
The Quintland Sisters: A Novel by Shelley Wood**
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn**
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste**
She Came to Slay: the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall**
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle For the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois
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 Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
The Women Who Made New York by Julie Scelfo
The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani**

Movies

Borrow Online

Overdrive (Libby)

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson (available as ebook or audiobook)
Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee (available as ebook)
The Girls by Emma Cline (available as ebook and audiobook)
The Huntress by Kate Quinn (available as ebook or audiobook)
Lady Clementine: A Novel by Marie Benedict (available as ebook)
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion (available as ebook or audiobook)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (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 ebook or audiobook)
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women in the CIA by Liza Mundy (available as ebook or audiobook)
That Churchill Woman: A Novel by Stephanie Barron (available as ebook or audiobook)
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (available as audiobook)
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder (available as ebook or audiobook)
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss (available as audiobook)
We Came Here to Shine by Susie Orman Schnall (available as audiobook)
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell (available as ebook or audiobook)
The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner (available as ebook)

Hoopla

The Girls Who Fought Crime:The Untold True Story of Country’s First First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad by Mari K. Eder (available as ebook)
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper (available as ebook or audiobook)
A Light of Her Own by Carrie Callaghan (available as ebook)
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs (available as audiobook)
My Notorious Life by Kate Manning (available as audiobook)
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (available as ebook or audiobook)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (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 ebook or audiobook)
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen (available as ebook or audiobook)
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (available as ebook or audiobook)
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell (available as ebook or audiobook)

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