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!
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Children's Picture Books
Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
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
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-Ups by Stephanie Clarkson
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
Standing on Her Shoulders: A Celebration of Women by Monica Clark-Robinson
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
Children's Nonfiction
Be Bold! Be Brave!: 11 Latinas who made U.S. History by Naibe Reynoso
Brave, Black, First: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II by Liza Mundy
A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet by Valentina Camerini
HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
Muslim Girls Rise: Inspirational Champions of Our Time by Saira Mir
Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices & Changed the World edited by Erin Bried
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
A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation by Ilene Cooper
Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment by Nancy B. Kennedy
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
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
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
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and TR Simon
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer de Leon
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Legendborn by Tracey Deonn
Lobizona by Romina Garber
Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno
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
Teen and Young Adult Nonfiction
Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages edited by Melissa de la Cruz
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee
Feminism: Reinventing the F-word by Nadia Abushanab Higgins
Feminism Is… by Alexandra Black
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
Renegade Women in Film & TV by Elizabeth Weitzman
She Represents: 44 Women Who are Changing Politics...and the World by Caitlin Donohue
Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 by Jenniger Calvert
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Adult Fiction
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
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
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
Adult Nonfiction
10 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs