Reads for Women's History Month

From RBG to Ms. Marvel, from Toni Morrison to Melinda Gates: Our expert curators from Youth, Teen, and Adult Services have created a recommended Women's History Month reading list for young kids, older kids, teens, and adults. Happy reading!

For Younger Readers  

Nonfiction:

• Ada Lovelace by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara
• All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
• Claudette Colvin  by Lesa Cline-Ransome (She Persisted series)
• The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Julie Leung
• I am Helen Keller by Brad Meltzer
• The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest by Heather Lang
• Like a Girl by Lori Degman
• Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights by Deborah Hopkinson
• We Wait for the Sun by Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Picture Books and Board Books:

• Dream Big by Joyce Wan
• Dress like a Girl by Patricia Toht 
• Helga Makes a Name for Herself by Megan Maynor
• Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
• This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer by Joan Holub

For Older Kids

• Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to Be Awesome Scientists by Martha Freeman
• Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-Lowy
• Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Michele Wood
• President of the whole sixth grade by Sherri Winston
• Rebecca Rides for Freedom: An American Revolution Survival Story by Emma Carlson Berne and illustrated by Francesca Ficorilli
• Amina's Voice by Hena Khan

For Teen Readers:

• Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen           
• Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
• Audacity by Melanie Crowder
• Ms. Marvel 1, No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
• #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Mary Beth Leatherdale
• Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and other Revolutionaries who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
• Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Camron and Shana Knizhnik
• You too? Edited by Janet Gurtler
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
• Vote!: Women’s Fight for Access to the Ballot Box by Coral Celeste Frazer
• Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout
• Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung

For Adult Readers

Fiction

• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (FICTION SWEENEY)
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (FICTION HONEYMAN)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez (FICTION HENRIQUE)
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FICTION ROBINSON)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Fiction Walker) 
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction Morrison)
• Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Fiction Reid)
• Meet Me In Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly’s Wedding by Hazel Gaynor (Fiction Gaynor)
• Arcadia by Lauren Groff (FICTION GROFF)
• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary: A Maggie Hope Novel by Susan Elia MacNeal (Mystery MacNeal)
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (Fiction Quinn)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (FICTION ATWOOD)
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (FICTION PATCHETT)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (FICTION SEE)
• The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (FICTION KIDD)
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (FICTION GRISSOM)

Current Affairs

• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race edited by Mariam Khan
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch
• Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts; with Kate Hanley
• Motherhood So White: a Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin
• Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block
• Choice Words: Writers on Abortion edited by Annie Finch
• The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan
• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
• This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Lawson
• Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
• A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
• When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
• Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie