March is Women's History Month

Women's History Month is an annual observance to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In the United States, Women's History Month traces its beginnings back to the first International Women's Day (observed on March 8)  in 1911. The month-long celebration had its origins during the Reagan era in 1981 in week-long form when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28,  which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as Women’s History Week. It remained Women's History Week until 1987, when March was designated by Congress as Women’s History Month. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. 

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Biographical Fiction about Women in American and World History

• The queens of crime : a novel- Benedict, Marie (Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Baroness Emma Orczy) 
• Harriet Tubman : live in concert : a novel- Bob, the Drag Queen (Harriet Tubman)
• Boudicca : a novel- Cast, P. C. (Queen Boudicca)
• Malinalli- Chapa, Veronica (Malinalli, Malintzin aka La Malinche aka  Doña Marina, aka Malinalxochitl)
• The instrumentalist : a novel- Constable, Harriet (Anna Maria della Pietà)
• Cleopatra : a novel- El-Arifi, Saara (Cleopatra)
• The girl in the green dress : a mystery featuring Zelda Fitzgerald- Fredericks, Mariah (Zelda Fitzgerald)
• Peggy : a novel- Godfrey, Rebecca (Peggy Guggenheim)
• Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team- Hooper, Elise (Betty Robinson, Louise Stokes, and Helen Stephens)
• A pair of wings : a novel- Hopson, Carole (Bessie Coleman)
• Let us march on : a novel- Moon, Shara (Lizzie McDuffie, maid to FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt)
• Scandalous women : a novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann- Paul, Gill (Jackie Collins, Jacqueline Susann)
• Flight of the wild swan- Pritchard, Melissa (Florence Nightingale)
• Ella : a novel- Richards, Diane (Ella Fitzgerald)
• Let's call her Barbie- Rosen, Renée (Ruth Handler)
• Blonde dust : a novel- Rosnay, Tatiana de (Marilyn Monroe)
• The lost masterpiece : a novel- Shapiro, Barbara A. (Berthe Morisot)
• The glowing hours- Siddiqui, Leila (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
• With love from Harlem : a novel of Hazael Scott- Tate, ReShonda (Hazael Scott)
• Jackie : a novel- Tripp, Dawn Clifton (Jackie Kennedy)
• The rest is memory : a novel- Tuck, Lily (Czeslawa Kwoka)
• The unexpected diva : a novel- Warren, Tiffany L. (Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield)

Women in Activism and Leadership

• Unfollow me : essays on complicity- Busby, Jill Louise- 305.8009 BUSBY
• I will scream to the world- Dukureh, Jaha- 966.5103 DUKUREH
• Queen Mother : Black nationalism, reparations, and the untold story of Audley Moore- Farmer, Ashley D.- 323.168 MOORE F
• Access : inside the abortion underground and the sixty-year battle for reproductive freedom- Grant, Rebecca- 362.1988 GRANT
• Woman life freedom : voices and art from the women's protests in Iran- Halasa, Malu- 305.42 WOMAN
• Dreaming of home : how we turn fear into pride power, and real change- Jiménez, Cristina- 974.7044 JIMENEZ
• Young and restless : the girls who sparked America's revolutions- Kahn, Mattie- 303.484 KAHN
• Thank you for calling the Lesbian Line- Lovatt, Elizabeth- 306.7663 LOETT
• We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people- Nenquimo, Nemonte- 305.86 NENQUIMO
• The art of power : my story as America's first woman Speaker of the House- Pelosi, Nancy- 328.7309 PELOSI
• Mother Mary comes to me- : Roy, Arundhati- 823.914 ROY
• A passionate mind in relentless pursuit : the vision of Mary McLeod Bethune- Rooks, Noliwe- 370.92 BETHUNE R
• Dangerous women : fifty reflections on women, power and identity- Shaw, Jo- 305.42 SHAW
• Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson- Tourmaline- 306.768 JOHNSON T
• Women talk money : breaking the taboo- Walker, Rebecca- 332.024 WOMEN
• The risk it takes to bloom : on life and liberation- Willis, Raquel- 306.768 WILLIS
• Revolutionary feminists : the women's liberation movement in Seattle- Winslow, Barbara- 305.42 WINSLOW
• Finding my way : a memoir- Yousafzai, Malala- 305.4869 YOUSAFZAI

Women in the Arts

• Fearless and free : a memoir- Baker, Josephine- 792.8092 BAKER
• Brushed aside : the untold story of women in art- Charney, Noah- 709 CHARNEY
• The club : where American women artists found refuge in Belle Époque Paris- Dasal, Jennifer- 704.042 DASAL
• Breathing space : Iranian women photographers- Ghabaian Etehadieh, Anahita- Q779.0922 BREATHING
• The story of art without men- Hessel, Katy- 700.82 HESSEL
• Warhol's muses : the artists, misfits, and superstars destroyed by the Factory fame machine- Leamer, Laurence- 700.9227 LEAMER
• Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy- Lewis, Damien- 792.8028 BAKER L
• Holler rat : a memoir- Liftig, Anya- 709.2 LIFTIG
• Surreal spaces : the life and art of Leonora Carrington- Moorhead, Joanna- 709.04 CARRINGTON M
• Divine Lola : a true story of scandal and celebrity- Morató, Cristina- 792.8092 MONTEZ M
• A sense of shifting : queer artists reshaping dance- Romack, Coco- 792.8 ROMACK
• Yoko : a biography- Sheff, David- 700.92 ONO S
• Men have called her crazy : a memoir- Tendler, Annamarie- 813.6 TENDLER        
• Traces of a Jewish artist : the lost life and work of Rahel Szalit- Wallach, Kerry- 700.92 SZALIT W

Women in Business and Entrepreneurship

• We might just make it after all : my best friendship with Kate Spade- Arons, Elyce- 746.9209 ARONS
• Mary Kay you can have it all : lifetime wisdom from America's foremost woman entrepreneur- Ash, Mary Kay- 650.1 ASH
• Becoming Elizabeth Arden : the woman behind the global beauty empire- Cordery, Stacy A.- 338.7668 ARDEN C
• LifeLines : an inspirational journey from profound darkness to radiant light- Bernstein, Melissa B.- 616.8522 BERNSTEIN
• Scan artist : how Evelyn Wood convinced the world that speed-reading worked- Biederman, Marcia- 428.43 BIEDERMAN
• Still Bobbi- Brown, Bobbi- 338.7668 BROWN
• Work wife : the power of female friendship to drive successful businesses- Cerulo, Erica- 658.409 CERULO        
• The tell : a memoir- Griffin, Amy- 362.764 GRIFFIN
• Walk through fire : a memoir of love, loss, and triumph- Johnson, Sheila C.- 338.0409 JOHNSON
• Believe IT : how to go from underestimated to unstoppable- Lima, Jamie Kern- 338.7668 LIMA
• Glossy : ambition, beauty, and the inside story of Emily Weiss's Glossier- Meltzer, Marisa- 338.764 MELTZER
• For the culture : phenomenal Black women and femmes in food : interviews, inspiration, and recipes- Miller, Klancy- 641.592 MILLER
• Mistakes that made me a millionaire : how to transform setbacks into extraordinary success- Perell, Kim- 338 PERELL
• Everything will be okay : life lessons for young women (from a former young woman)- Perino, Dana- 305.242 PERINO
• Softly, as I leave you : life after Elvis- Presley, Priscilla- 791.4502 PRESLEY
• The urgent life : my story of love, loss, and survival- Saint John, Bozoma- 338.092 SAINT JOHN

Women in Entertainment

• You with the sad eyes : a memoir- Applegate, Christina- 920 APPLEGATE
• Sure, I'll join your cult : a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere- Bamford, Maria- 792.7028 BAMFORD
• Miss May does not exist : the life and work of Elaine May, Hollywood's hidden genius- Courogen, Carrie- 791.4302 MAY C
• Girl walks into a bar... : comedy calamities, dating disasters, and a midlife miracle- Dratch, Rachel- 792.7028 DRATCH
• Simply more : a book for anyone who has been told they're too much- Erivo, Cynthia- 782.1409 ERIVO
• Ten steps to Nanette : a memoir situation- Gadsby, Hannah- 792.702 GADSBY
• Bits and pieces : my mother, my brother, and me- Goldberg, Whoopi- 791.43 GOLDBERG
• So gay for you : friendship, found family, & the show that started it all- Hailey, Leisha- 791.4502 HAILEY
• I'll have what she's having- Handler, Chelsea- 792.7028 HANDLER
• La Lucci- Lucci, Susan- 792.028 LUCCI
• It girl : the life and legacy of Jane Birkin- Meltzer, Marisa- 791.4302 BIRKIN M
• That's a great question, I'd love to tell you- Myers, Elyse- 792.7602 MYERS
• First lady of laughs : the forgotten story of Jean Carroll, America's first Jewish woman standup comedian- Overbeke, Grace Kessler- 792.7028 CARROLL O
• Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays- Robinson, Phoebe- 818.602 ROBINSON        
• Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star- Sen, Mayukh- 791.4302 OBERON S
• Hello, Molly! : a memoir- Shannon, Molly- 792.7028 SHANNON
• Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old : thoughts on aging as a woman- Shields, Brooke- 791.43 SHIELDS        
• You can't joke about that : why everything is funny, nothing is sacred, and we're all in this together- Timpf, Kat- 818.602 TIMPF
• Cracking up : black feminist comedy in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States- Wood, Katelyn Hale- 792.76 WOOD

Women in Medicine

• The mind electric : a neurologist on the strangeness and wonder of our brains- Anand, Pria- 616.8 ANAND
• Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism in medicine- Blackstock, Uché- 610.92 BLACKSTOCK
• Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine- Campbell, Olivia M.- 610.922 CAMPBELL
• All in her head : the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today- Comen, Elizabeth- 362.1082 COMEN
• The doctor was a woman : stories of the first female physicians on the frontier- Enss, Chris-         610.922 ENSS
• Falling into the fire : a psychiatrist's encounters with the mind in crisis- Montross, Christine- 616.89 MONTROSS
• That good night : life and medicine in the eleventh hour- Puri, Sunita- 610.92 PURI
• The cure for women : Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever- Reeder, Lydia- 610.8209 JACOBI R
• The trials of Madame Restell : nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime- Syrett, Nicholas L.-         362.1988 RESTELL S

Women in the Military,  Intelligence, and Wartime

• Valiant women : the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II- Andrews, Lena S.- 940.5308 ANDREWS
• The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers- Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth- 940.4173 COBBS HOFFMAN
• The girls who stepped out of line : untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II- Eder, Mari K.- 940.5309 EDER
• The Furies : women, vengeance, and justice- Flock, Elizabeth- 305.42 FLOCK
• Rings of fire : how an unlikely team of scientists, ex-cons, women, and Native Americans helped win World War II- Hughes, Larry J.- 940.548 HUGHES
• The tie that bound us : the women of John Brown's family and the legacy of radical abolitionism- Laughlin-Schultz, Bonnie- 973.7116 BROWN L
• Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield- Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach- 958.1047 WHITE T
• The daughters of Kobani : a story of rebellion, courage, and justice- Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach- 956.9104 LEMMON
• Searching for the Amazons : the real warrior women of the ancient world- Man, John-         939.6 MAN
• Women of the blue and gray : true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies- Monson, Marianne- 973.7082 MONSON        
• Women in the American Revolution : gender, politics, and the domestic world- Oberg, Barbara- 973.3092 WOMEN
• We the women : the hidden heroes who shaped America- O'Donnell, Norah- 920.7209 O'DONNELL        
• Open skies : my life as Afghanistan's first female pilot- Rahmani, Niloofar- 629.13 RAHMANI
• Louisa on the front lines : Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War- Seiple, Samantha- 813.4 ALCOTT S
• Lincoln's lady spymaster : the untold story of the abolitionist Southern belle who helped win the Civil War- Willis, Gerri- 973.785 VAN LEW W

Women in Music

• Ain't nobody's fool : the life and times of Dolly Parton- Ackmann, Martha- 782.4216 PARTON A
• Why Willie Mae Thornton matters- Denise, Lynnée (DJ)- 782.4216 THORNTON D
• Madonna : a rebel life- Gabriel, Mary- 782.4166 MADONNA G
• Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk- Hanna, Kathleen- 782.4216 HANNA
• I identify as blind : a brazen celebration of disability culture, identity, and power- Lachi- 362.4109 LACHI
• The other Fab Four : the remarkable true story of the Liverbirds, Britain's first female rock band- McGlory, Mary- 782.4216 MCGLORY
• Her country : how the women of country music became the success they were never supposed to be- Moss, Marissa R.- 781.642 MOSS
• Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer- Müller, Melissa- 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER M
• From here to the great unknown : a memoir- Presley, Lisa Marie- 782.4216 PRESLEY
• Hit girls : Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the women who built pop's shiniest decade- Princiotti, Nora- 782.4216 PRINCIOTTI
• Bread of angels- Smith, Patti- 782.4216 SMITH
• Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song- Tick, Judith-         782.4165 FITZGERALD T
• Fetishized : a reckoning with yellow fever, feminism, and beauty- Yu, Kaila-         782.4216 YU

Women in Sports

• Full out : lessons in life and leadership from America's favorite coach- Aldama, Monica-         791.64 ALDAMA
• In the water they can't see you cry : a memoir- Beard, Amanda- 797.21 BEARD
• Incomparable- Bella, Brie- 796.812 BELLA
• Queen of the court : the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble- Blais, Madeleine-         796.342 MARBLE B
• On her game : Caitlin Clark and the revolution in women's sports- Brennan, Christine-         796.323 CLARK B
• The striker and the clock : on being in the game- Cloepfil, Georgia- 796.334 CLOEPFIL
• Don't call it a comeback : what happened when I stopped chasing PRs, and started chasing happiness- D'Amato, Keira-         796.4209 D'AMATO
• America's girl : the incredible story of how swimmer Gertrude Ederle changed the nation- Dahlberg, Tim- 797.21 EDERLE D
• Coming home- Griner, Brittney- 796.323 GRINER
• Althea : the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson- Jacobs, Sally H.- 796.342 GIBSON J
• Becky Lynch : The Man : not your average average girl- Lynch, Becky- 796.812 LYNCH
• On top of glass : my stories as a queer girl in figure skating- Manta, Karina- YA 796.912 MANTA
• Far beyond gold : running from fear to faith- : McLaughlin, Sydney- 277.3092 MCLAUGHLIN
• Brace for impact : a memoir- Montesanti, Gabe- 796.21 MONTESANTI
• One life- Rapinoe, Megan- 796.334 RAPINOE
• Naomi Osaka : her journey to finding her power and her voice- Rothenberg, Ben
• Uncommon favor : basketball, North Philly, my mother, and the lessons I learned from all three- Staley, Dawn- 796.323 STALEY
• Outcasts united : an American town, a refugee team, and one woman's quest to make a difference- St. John, Warren-         796.334 MUFLEH S
• Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner- Telfer, CeCé-         796.4209 TELFER
• The belles of baseball : the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League- Yomtov, Nel- YA 796.357 YOMT

Women in STEM

• Sisters in science : how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history- Campbell, Olivia M.- 530.092 CAMPBELL
• README.txt : a memoir- Manning, Chelsea- 355.133 MANNING
• The elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science- Sobel, Dava- 540.92 CURIE S
• Carbon queen : the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus- Weinstock, Maia- 620.193 DRESSELHAUS W
• Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age through the poetry of numbers- Essinger, James- 510.92 ESSINGER
• Sharks don't sink : adventures of a rogue shark scientist- Graham, Jasmin-         597.3092 GRAHAM
• One step sideways, three steps forward : one woman's path to becoming a biologist- Grant, B. Rosemary-          570.92 GRANT
• Radiant : the dancer, the scientist, and a friendship forged in light- Heinecke, Liz Lee-         792.8028 HEINECKE
• Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars- Holt, Nathalia-         629.4092 HOLT
• Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race- Lee Shetterly, Margot- 510.925 LEE SHETTERLY
• The arbornaut : a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us- Lowman, Margaret- 581.7092 LOWMAN
• Einstein's tutor : the story of Emmy Noether and the invention of modern physics- Phillips, Lee- 510.92 NOETHER P
• Maybe it's me : on being the wrong kind of woman- Pollack, Eileen- 813.54 POLLACK
• The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust- White, Elizabeth B.- 940.5318 MEHLBERG W
• Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea- Widder, Edith- 551.46 WIDDER
• Wild life : finding my purpose in an untamed world- Wynn-Grant, Rae- 333.9541 WYNN-GRANT