Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with us! We’ve compiled a list of books written about women and the female experience. In addition to books, you will also find recommendations for some movies and albums to check out as well.

Fiction

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray

The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

All you have to do is call by Kerri  Maher

 First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chen

House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Nonfiction

Black Angels by Maria Smilios

Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury

The Woman who would be King

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

Eleanor by David Michaelis

Spell Freedom by Elaine Weiss

Ida B. The Queen by Michelle Duster

The Six by Loren Gush

Counterfeit Countess by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa

The Book of Gutsy Women by Hilary and Chelsea Clinton

The Agitators by Dorothy Wickenden

The Movement by Clara Dingham

Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

My Beloved World by Sonja Sotomayor

Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

Princess Spy by Larry Loft

Suffrage by Ellen Carol Debois

Forever Frida by Kathy Cano-Murillo

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sintclair

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rulebreaker by Susan Page

From Scratch by Tembi Locke

The Hard Parts by Oksana Masters

Take Care of them Like My Own by Ala Stanford, M.D.

The Chancellor by Kati Marton

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Menopause is Hot by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie

The Pain Gap by Anushay Hossain

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

Music

Blue  by Joni Mitchell

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

I Never Loved a Man the way I loved you by Aretha Franklin

Tapestry by Carole King

Horses by Patti Smith

Lemonade by Beyonce

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse

Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morrissette

Renaissance by Beyonce

Pearl by Janis Joplin

Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliot

I put a spell on you by Nina Simone