Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month, an observance of the contributions, achievements, and influence of women to history and culture. Check out our featured titles below, and search our catalog for more.
Adult Reads
- Formidable : American women and the fight for equality: 1920-2020 by Elisabeth Griffith
- We Came Here to Shine by Susie Orman Schnall
- By Her Own Design : a novel of Ann Lowe, fashion designer to the social register / Piper Huguley
- New Women in the Old West : from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story by Winifred Gallagher
- Let's Get Physical : how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world by Danielle Friedman
- Proving Ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer by Kathy Kleiman
- Good for a Girl : a woman running in a man's world by Lauren Fleshman
- Windswept : Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs
- On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union by Daisy Pitkin
- Girls of Flight City: Inspired by True Events, a Novel of WWII, the Royal Air Force, and Texas by Lorraine Heath
Teen Reads
- Maybe an Artist : a graphic memoir by Liz Montague
- Inaugural Ballers : the true story of the first U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team by Andrew Maraniss
- Gamer Girls : 25 women who built the video game industry by Mary Kenney
- Wonderful Women of the World edited by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Woman All Spies Fear : code breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her hidden life by Amy Butler Greenfield
- Film Makers : 15 groundbreaking women directors by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
- Evelyn Hooker and the Fairy Project by Gayle E. Pitman
- A Pirate's Life for She : swashbuckling women through the ages Laura Sook Duncombe
- Audacity by Melanie Crowder
- Native Women Changing Their Worlds by Patricia J. Cutright
- The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Kid Reads
- Breaking Through the Clouds : the sometimes turbulent life of meteorologist Joanne Simpson by Sandra Nickel
- Just Wild Enough : Mireya Mayor, primatologist by Marta Magellan
- Girls Solve Everything : stories of women entrepreneurs building a better world by Catherine Thimmesh
- Hoops by Matt Tavares
- We're in This Together : by Linda Sarsour
- The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code by Walter Isaacson
- Rolling warrior : the incredible, sometimes awkward, true story of a rebel girl on wheels who helped spark a revolution by Judith Heumann
- Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales : Cold War Correspondent by Nathan Hale
- The Girl Who Rode a Shark : & other stories of daring women by Ailsa Ross
- The Woman in the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon by Richard Maurer
- Who Was a Daring Pioneer of the Skies? : Amelia Earhart by Melanie Gillman
- Troublemakers in Trousers : women and what they wore to get things done by Sarah Albee
Picture Books
- The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America by Jan Lower
- Courage in Her Cleats : The Story of Soccer Star Abby Wambach by Kim Chaffee
- Love Is Loud : How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace
- A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin by Gretchen Woelfle
- Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine: Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash by Kate Hannigan
- Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta by Jennifer Torres
- Dazzlin' Dolly: The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton by Suzanne Slade
- The Tower of Life : How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel
- Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women
- Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman, World-Class Swimmer, Fashion Pioneer, and Real-Life Mermaid by Katie Mazeika
- Standing on Her Shoulders : a celebration of women by Monica Clark-Robinson
- A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard by Julia Lyon
