Women's History Month

 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

 

Connect with the authors and other readers by using #31titleswomeninhistory. 

 

Have a suggestion to add for 2024? Submit to Janis Robinson Daly through her website, www.janisrdaly.com. 

 


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