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The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

By Lan Yan, Sam Taylor

Queen Victoria: The woman who ruled the world

By Kate Hubbard

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

Across Many Mountains: The Extraordinary Story of Three Generations of Women in Tibet

By Yangzom Brauen

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Courtesans

By Hickman, Katie

Marie Antoinette

By John Edward Nicholl Hearsey

The Unwomanly Face of War

By Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

By Mikki Kendall

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Natalie Livingstone

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924

By Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Wait for Me!: Memoirs

By Mitford, Deborah

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

By Alain Corbin, Alan Sheridan

Women Under Apartheid

Women Under Apartheid

Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70

By Rochelle Rowe

Medieval Queenship

By John Carmi Parsons

Perfection Salad

By Laura Shapiro, Narcisse Chamberlain