Women's History Month Booklist
March is Women's History Month -- a time to commemorate and encourage the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. We've compiled a booklist of books by, for, and about women of all ages!
Click on a title to find it in our catalog; and find many more titles at cobbcat.org.
Children's Picture Books
Bo the Brave by Bethan Woollvin
Dear Girl by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood
Lucía the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza
Mama’s Saris by Pooja Makhijani
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-Ups by Stephanie Clarkson
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty (lots more in this series, too!)
Children's Nonfiction
A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade
Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison
Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World by Susan Hood
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Duman
Like Vanessa by Tami Charles
Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston
Roll With It by Jamie Sumner
Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Pérez
Turning Point by Paula Chase
Books for Teens and Young Adults
Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer de Leon
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Lobizona by Romina Garber
The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding
Watch Us Rise by Reneé Watson and Ellen Hagan
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tahlor Kay Mejia
Adult Fiction
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Circe by Madeline Miller
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Adult Nonfiction
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim