Celebrate Women's History Month with this fantastic reading list of books about women by women!
31 HISTORICAL FICTION Titles for Women's History Month
Prepared by Janis
Robinson Daly, author of The Unlocked
Path
Title / ISBN |
Author |
Woman/Women in
History |
Band of Sisters 978-0062986153 |
Lauren Willig
|
Smith College graduates volunteer for
WWI service |
The Black Rose 978-0345439604 |
Tananarive
Due |
Madam CH Walker, the first female self-made Millionaire in America |
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 978-1492691631 |
Kim Michele
Richardson |
Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians |
By Her Own Design 978-0063059740 |
Piper Huguley
|
Fashion designer, Ann Lowe |
Clara and Mr. Tiffany 978-1400068166 |
Susan
Vreeland |
Clara Driscoll, artist and designer of
nearly all of Tiffany's lamps |
Daughter of a Queen 978-1-250-19316-2 |
Sarah Bird |
Cathy Williams, a former slave who
served with the Buffalo Soldiers by disguising herself as a man |
The Engineer’s Wife 978-1492698135 |
Tracey
Enerson Wood |
Architect & Engineer Emily Roebling
|
Fast Girls 978-0062937995 |
Elise Hooper |
US Women's 1936 Olympic track team |
Indigo Girl 978-1455137114 |
Natasha Boyd |
Plantation Owner/Grower Eliza Lucas |
Innocent Traitor 978-0345494856 |
Alison Weir |
Lady Jane Grey |
The Invention of Wings 978-0670024780 |
Sue Monk Kidd
|
Abolitionists Sarah and Angelinka
Grimke |
Island Queen 978-0063002845 |
Vanessa Riley
|
Landowner and Entrepreneur, Dorothy
Kirwan Thomas |
The Island of Sea Women 978-1501154850 |
Lisa See |
Women Divers of Jeju Island |
The Last Empress 978-0618531462 |
Anchee Min |
Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala |
Lilac Girls 978-1101883075 |
Martha Hall
Kelly |
Caroline Ferriday, philanthropist |
Love and Ruin 978-1101883075 |
Paula McLain |
Journalist Martha Gellhorn |
Loving Frank 978-0345494993 |
Nancy Horan |
Mamah Borthwick Cheney |
Luminous: The Story of a Radium Girl 979-8544839613 |
Samantha
Wilcoxson |
Factory Worker, Catherine Donohoe |
Madame Presidentess 978-0996763202 |
Nicole
Evelina |
1872 Presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull |
The
Magnificent Lives of Marjorie
Post 978-0593355688 |
Allison
Pataki |
Marjorie Post, heiress &
philanthropist |
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B 9780684856063 |
Sandra
Gulland |
Josephine Bonaparte |
Monticello
978-1410494450 |
Sally Cabot
Gunning |
Martha Jefferson |
My
Dear Hamilton 978-0062819826 |
Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie |
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton |
The
Personal Librarian 978-0593101537 |
Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray |
Librarian Belle da Costa Greene |
Remarkable
Creatures 978-0525951452 |
Tracy
Chevalier |
Mary Anning, paleontologist |
The
Rose Code 978-0063059412 |
Kate Quinn |
Code breakers of Bletchley Park |
The
Unlocked Path 978-1685130145 |
Janis
Robinson Daly |
Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College
of Pennsylvania |
A
Well-Behaved Woman 978-1250095473 |
Therese Ann
Fowler |
Socialite & Suffragist, Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont |
When
We Had Wings 978-0785253341 |
Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, & Susan Meissner |
Angels of Bataan, WWII nurses |
The
Woman with the Cure 978-0593438060 |
Lynn Cullen |
Dorothy
Hortsmann, scientist of infectious diseases and the polio vaccine development |
The
Women’s March 978-0062976000 |
Jennifer
Chiaverini |
Suffragists Alice Paul, Maud Malone,
and Ida B. Wells |
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Have a suggestion to add for 2024? Submit to Janis Robinson Daly through her website, www.janisrdaly.com.
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