Does anybody have a recommendation for an interesting book about women in history?
Does anybody have a recommendation for an interesting book about women in history?
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Does anybody have a recommendation for an interesting book about women in history?
The Other Einstein
Yes!!
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E L Konigsburg. It’s a kids’ book, but it’s lovely and fun to share!
Radium Girls
@Nicole I second this.
So while not directly related there is a podcast called “the history Chicks” that covers women in history in depth and they always have great book suggestions and recommendations at the ends of each episode.
@Elizabeth that’s awesome! Thank you!!
@Christine it’s highly addicting! It’s also a great place to start because they have covered so many women from so many different parts of history.
@Elizabeth I love the history chicks podcast!!
the history chicks is my favorite podcast!
the history chicks is my favorite podcast!
the history chicks is my favorite podcast!
First hand stories from Russian women who fought on the front line during WWII….
These are all historical fiction but based on solid research
I, Eliza Hamilton
Americas first daughter
American duchess
A favourite of mine. Edwardian women did get out into the world and improve it.
Reading this now and highly enjoying it!
Widow Cliquot
This one was really good.
A Well Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier ?
@Cari ?? I just said that, too!
@Laurie, great minds think alike! I love her books, have you read any others?
@Cari I’ve read The Girl with the Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway. I’ve really enjoyed all of them. I own her others and will, hopefully, get to them someday.
@Laurie, I like Pearl Earring, I haven’t read Runaway, but I’ll add it to my list! Thx! I recently read On The Edge of the Orchard… meh. Can’t win them all. ?
Remarkable Creatures
The Alice Network ?
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird. It’s about Cathy Williams who became a Buffalo Soldier. It’s historical fiction, and it’s absolutely mesmerizing. She must have been incredibly brave!
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
About 1/2 way thru this and really enjoying it! (Planning on relistening to the Hamilton soundtrack when I’m done)
I actually never realized this was a series. I only read this one but loved it.
First Mothers by Cokie Roberts
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
I really liked Birth of Venus and Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
Radium Girls
Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks!
Anything written by Amanda Vickery. Really focused on bringing the lives of women back into the historical record.
The Alice Network, The Huntress
The Liliac Girls
The Girls of Atomic City
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The diary of Mary Todd Lincoln is an incredible book!
Eleanor Roosevelt Book 1,2 and 3. By Blanche Wiesen Cook
Not a book, but the podcast, History Chicks is all about women in history. Addicting
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is great.
@Lisa yes!
This is suuuuch a great book about history! Got it from amazon
The Radium Girls
I was going to suggest this! Amazing book.
The Woman’s Hour
Loving Frank, Sarah’s Key,
Code Name Verity (not to be confused with that awful Verity)
Radium girls
Catherine the Great, Abundance (Marie Antoinette)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks! It was amazing!
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
I forgot all about this book. I loved it. There aren’t many books written by female slaves.
I agree
Dollface by Renee Rosen. It is about the wives of men in in the mafia during the prohibition era.
Reading Code Girls now- about women code breakers in WWII
The radium girls true story
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
This is obvious, but Hidden Figures.
The Only Woman in the Room about Hedy Lamarr. It’s on my TBR pile.
Betty Before X (it’s a middle school level book though)
So many amazing options! Thank you!
My Dear Hamilton, The 19th Wife, Undiscovered Country:A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
The woman who smashed codes
Founding Mothers
Radium Girls
I really liked “My Dear Hamilton” – Eliza @Hamilton
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Maggie L Walker by Candice Ransom
Lilac Girls
Radium Girls
I’m sure this has already been mentioned, but Hidden Figures.
Code Name Lise. True store of England’s most decorated female spy!
Hamilton’s Wife. I think that’s what it’s called.
I am fascinated by Helen Keller! Anything about her or her autobiography would certainly be worth a read.
First Women: Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen.
A novel, but based on stories of the time. One of my all time favorite books.
Oh I loved this book SO much!!!
Eleanor and Franklin!!
@Tina is in a networking group with which I’m very active, and I recently learned that she’s the author of all these amazing-sounding books with women’s themes. I’m looking forward to diving in: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=tina+cassidy&i=digital-text
The red tent