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Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief

By Thom, James Alexander, Dark Rain

The Kindness of Strangers

By Adie, Kate

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

By Janice Kaplan

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By Radziwill, Carole

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

By Strayed, Cheryl

In My Dreams I Dance

By Anne Wafula

Can Any Mother Help Me?

By Jenna Bailey, Bailey, Jenna

Voyage to a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq: a Woman's Inside Story

By Daniel, Sara, Holoch, George

Unfollow: A Radio 4 Book of the Week Pick for June 2021

By Phelps-Roper, Megan

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

We Make Freedom: Women in South Africa Speak

By Lipman, Beata

BLUE NIGHTS

By Didion

Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century

By Anderson, Linda

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

By Thimmesh, Catherine, Sweet, Melissa

Dorothy Wordsworth

By Robert Gittings, Jo Manton, Gittings, Robert, Manton, Jo

Traci Lords: Underneath It All

By Lords, Traci

Elizabeth, the Queen: An intriguing deep dive into Queen Elizabeth I’s life as a woman and a monarch

By Weir, Alison

Gothic (Re) Vision (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory): Writing Women as Readers

By Wolstenholme, Susan

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

By Bell, Quentin

Margaret Thatcher

By Murray, Tricia

The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson

By Pasternak, Anna

A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson

By Troyan, Michael

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

By Millar, David

Mary Berry: Queen of British Baking: The Biography

By A.S Dagnell

Virginia Woolf (Lives)

By Nicolson, Nigel

Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

By Ingrid Betancourt

For Freddie: A Mother's Final Gift to Her Son

By Bland, Rachael

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

By Gordon, Edmund

For Women and the Nation: FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI OF NIGERIA

By Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, Mba, Nina Emma