International Woman's Day Reading List

 Just a selection few good reads for International Woman's Day.  I'm trying not use books about Suffragettes.  

from Women in the Arts Museum


Children's Books

Maria's Comet by  Deborah Hopkinson

Golden Girls of Rio by Nikkolas Smith

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Marvel Comic Series)

Ironheart (Marvel Comic Series)

Constance and Nano by Kelly Thompson

Priya Shakti Series by Ram Devineni

Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit

Girls to the Rescue series by Bruce Lanksy

Princessless (comic series)

Sleeping Ugly  by Jane Yolen

Fiction

Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur

Handmaid's Tale  by Margaret Atwood

Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay

Princess Series by Jim C Hines

Janitors of the Post Apocalypse by Jim C Hines

Eve's Diary  by Mark Twain 

Indigo Series by Louise Cooper

History

Quebec Women A History by the Clio Collective

Women Warriors  by Pamela Toler

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings

Ain't I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White

Lady Killers  by Tori Telfer

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Women of Action Series  published by Chicago Review Press 

Ravensbruck  by Sara Helm

The Woman Who Be King  by Kara Cooney

From Eve to Dawn by Marilyn French (4 volumes)

Uppity Women Series  by Vicki Leon

Fearless Mrs Godwin by Elizabeth Mitchell

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

A Kick in the Belly  by Stella Dadzie

UnBound by Dean King

Nonfiction

Feminist City  by Lesile Kern

She Said  by Jodi Kantor

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir

We Should All be Feminists  and Dear Ijeawele  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The War on Women by Sue Roberts Lloyd

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Women & Power by Mary Beard

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique W. Morris

Shiran Neshat: Facing History by Melissa Ho

She Who Tells A Story by Kristen Gresh

Everyday Sexism  by Laura Bates

A Different Kind of Daughter by Maria Toorpakai

Dreams of Trespass by Fatema Mernissi

Travel

Woman's London: A Tour Guide to Great Lives by Rachel Kolsky


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