In what is now a Women's History Month tradition at the Library, we present our annual list of recent acquisitions focusing on women's vast contibrutions to history. The books below cover a lot of ground: activism, arts and literature, science, espionage and intelligence, and much more.  You will find something here for almost every reader. A section for Children's and Young Adult books is included as well. 

To continue exploring our holdings on women's history, be sure to click the subject heading links within the catalog records. They can open up a whole new world of reading possibilities. And we must include our customary reminder to check what is on the shelf next to the book you are retrieving. You may find the perfect book, and one you did not know you were looking for.

Previous Women's History Month lists: 2020 | 2019

Activism & Protest, Suffrage, Feminism

• All The Women Are White, All The Blacks Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (Akasha Hull, et al., eds.) 
• American Women's Suffrage: Voices From The Long Struggle For The Vote 1776-1965 (Susan Ware, ed.)
• As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography Of Women And Emancipation In The Americas (Erica L. Ball, et al., eds.)
• Beck, Koa | White Feminism: From The Suffragettes To Influencers And Who They Leave Behind
• Cahill, Cathleen D. | Recasting The Vote: How Women Of Color Transformed The Suffrage Movement
• Dadzie, Stella | A Kick In The Belly: Women, Slavery And Resistance
• Delap, Lucy | Feminisms: A Global History
• Duberman, Martin B. | Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist As Revolutionary
• Dubois, Ellen Carol | Suffrage: Women's Long Battle For The Vote  
• Hamlin, Kimberly A. | Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, And The Extraordinary Life Of Helen Hamilton Gardener 
• Harmange, Pauline | I Hate Men  
• Hochschild, Adam | Rebel Cinderella: From Rags To Riches To Radical, The Epic Journey Of Rose Pastor Stokes (ebook available) 
• Holmes, Rachel | Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism And The Combahee River Collective  (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ed.)
• Kendall, Mikki | Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot
• Levenstein, Lisa | They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History Of Feminism In The Nineties
• Lewis, Helen | Difficult Women: A History Of Feminism In 11 Fights
• Loughery, John | Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice Of The American Century
• Meister, Sarah Hermanson | Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures  
• Mikroenda, Jerry | America's First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur And The Early Fight For Civil Rights  
• Parker, Alison M. | Unceasing Militant: The Life Of Mary Church Terrell   
• Schechter, Patricia Ann | Ida B. Wells-Barnett And American Reform, 1880-1930  
• Shakur, Assata | Assata: An Autobiography   
• Siegel, Mona L. | Peace On Our Terms: The Global Battle For Women's Rights After The First World War 305.4 S 
• Sippial, Tiffany A. | Celia Sanchez Manduley: The Life And Legacy Of A Cuban Revolutionary  
• Ware, Susan | American Women's Suffrage: Voices From The Long Struggle For The Vote, 1776-1965  
• Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings That Inspired A Revolution & Still Can (Library Of America; Alix Kates Shulman & Honor Moore, Eds.) 
• Words Of Fire: An Anthology Of African-American Feminist Thought(Beverly Guy-Sheftall, 
• Ed.) 305.4 W 
• Zarnow, Leandra Ruth | Battling Bella: The Protest Politics Of Bella Abzug  

Arts & Literature  

• Aalto, Kathryn | Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, And Mavericks Who Shape How We See The Natural World  
• Ackmann, Martha | These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments In The Making Of Emily Dickinson  
• Auricchio, Laura | Adelade Labille-Guiard: Artist In The Age Of Revolution (Getty Museum)   
• Chase, Marilyn | Everything She Touched: The Life Of Ruth Asawa  
• Clark, Heather L. | Red Comet: The Short Life And Blazing Art Of Sylvia Plath  
• Coffin, Judith G. | Sex, Love, And Letters: Writing Simone De Beauvoir  
• Cole, Michael Wayne | Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist And Her Work  
• De Kretser, Michelle | On Shirley Hazzard  
• Doherty, Maggie | The Equivalents: A Story Of Art, Female Friendship, And Liberation In The 1960s  
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore | The Works Of Alice Dunbar-Nelson  
• Eileen Gray (Designer & Architect, 1878-1976 (Cloé Pitiot And Nina Stritzler-Levine, Eds.; Bard Exhibition) 745 G 
• Fenwick, E. | Secresy [Sic], Or, The Ruin On The Rock (18th Century Pioneering Feminist Novel) 
• Greig, Cicely | Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir  
• Hastings, Selina | Sybille Bedford: An Appetite For Life  
• Haynes, Natalie | Pandora's Jar: Women In The Greek Myths  
• Holladay, Hilary | The Power Of Adrienne Rich: A Biography  
• Hull, Akasha Gloria | Color, Sex, & Poetry: Three Women Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance  
• Hurston, Zora Neale | Go Gator And Muddy The Water (writings from the Federal Writers Project, some previously uncollected) 
• Hutchinson, George | In Search Of Nella Larsen: A Biography Of The Color Line  
• Jefferson, Ann | Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between  
• Johnson, Claudia L. | 30 Great Myths About Jane Austen  
• Jones, Martha S. | Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won The Vote, And Insisted On Equality For All  
• Liming, Sheila | What A Library Means To A Woman: Edith Wharton And The Will To Collect Books  
• Lorde, Audre | Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches  
• Macdonald, Margaret F. | The Woman In White: Joanna Hiffernan And James Mcneill Whistler  
• Ming Smith (Photography) (Contributions by Emmanuel Iduma, Et Al.) 
• Morrison, Toni | Toni Morrison: The Last Interview And Other Conversations  
• Penrose, Antony | Surrealist: Lee Miller  
• Petitjean, Marc | The Heart: Frida Kahlo In Paris  
• Rollyson, Carl E. | The Last Days Of Sylvia Plath  
• Salmen, Brigitte | Marianne Von Werefkin (Great Masters In Art)  
• Saxton, Ruth | The Book Of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women Of A Certain Age In Fiction 
• Souhami, Diana | No Modernism Without Lesbians  
• Stahr, Celia | Frida In America: The Creative Awakening Of A Great Artist  
• Stout, Janis P. | Cather Among The Moderns  
• The Methuen Drama Anthology Of American Women Playwrights: 1970-2020 (edited and with introductions by Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel) 
• Tillet, Salamishah | In Search Of The Color Purple: The Story Of An American Masterpiece  
• Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman | The Works Of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman  
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves: An Anthology (Glory Edim, ed.)
• Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories By Women, 1891-1937 (Melissa Edmundson, ed.) 

War & Espionage

• Alexander, Eileen | Love In The Blitz: The Long-Lost Letters Of A Brilliant Young Woman To Her Beloved On The Front  
• Dubbs, Chris | An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents In World War I  
• Gellhorn, Martha | Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters Of Love & War, 1930-1949  
• Katz, Catherine Grace | The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, And Harrimans: A Story Of Love And War  
• Lamb, Christina | Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does To Women  
• Macintyre, Ben | Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy  
• Magida, Arthur J | Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy In Nazi-Occupied Paris  
• Mrazek, Robert J. | The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story Of A War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter And Savior Of American Pows  

Science & Medicine 

• Goldfarb, Bruce | 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story Of Frances Glessner Lee And The Invention Of Modern Forensics  
• Moore, Donovan | What Stars Are Made Of: The Life Of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin  
• Moore, Wendy | No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I (ebook available)
• Nimura, Janice P. | The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine To Women--And Women To Medicine (ebook available)

Performing Arts  

• Burford, Mark | Mahalia Jackson: And The Black Gospel Field  
• Griffin, Farah Jasmine | If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday  
• Lane, Christina | Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock  
• Parton, Dolly | Dolly Parton: Songteller, My Life In Lyrics
• Rifind, Donna | The Sun and Her Stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
• Smarsh, Sarah | She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton And The Women Who Lived Her Songs
• Tyson, Cicely | Just as I Am: A Memoir
• Wagner, Natasha Gregson | More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait Of My Mother, Natalie Wood  

 History & Biographies

• Abramsky, Sasha | Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story Of Lottie Dod, The World's First Female Sports Superstar   
• Andrews, Kerri | Wanderers: A History Of Women Walking  
• Ball, Molly | Pelosi  
• Bingham, Sallie | The Silver Swan: In Search Of Doris Duke  
• Bryan, Beverley | The Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives In Britain
• D'antonio, Michael | The Hunting Of Hilary: The Forty-Year Campaign To Destroy Hillary Clinton  
• Davis, Lisa | Tomboy: The Surprising History And Future Of Girls Who Dare To Be Different   
• Evans, Sian | Maiden Voyages: Women And The Golden Age Of Transatlantic Travel  
• Foster, Diana Greene | The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, A Thousand Women, And The Consequences Of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion  
• Gorton, Stephanie | Citizen Reporters: S. S. Mcclure, Ida Tarbell, And The Magazine That Rewrote America  
• Hilton, Lisa | Sex And The City Of Ladies: Rewriting History With Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia And Catherine The Great   
• Krasnow, Iris | Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons On Friendship, Courage, And Loyalty  
• Leibman, Laura Arnold | The Art Of The Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five Objects  
• Meltzer, Marisa | This Is Big: How The Founder Of Weight Watchers Changed The World -- And Me  
• Michaelis, David | Eleanor  
• Moore, Honor | Our Revolution: A Mother And Daughter At Midcentury  
• Poling-Kempes, Lesley | Ladies Of The Canyons: A League Of Extraordinary Women And Their Adventures In The American Southwest   
• Randall, Margaret | I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary  
• Robinson, Jane | Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures Of The First Professional Women 
• Shirley, Craig | Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
• Slimani, Leïla | Sex And Lies: True Stories Of Women's Intimate Lives In The Arab World  
• Summers, Julie | Dressed For War: The Story Of Vogue Editor Audrey Withers, From The Blitz To The Swinging Sixties
• Tallis, Nicola | Uncrowned Queen: The Life Of Margaret Beaufort, Mother Of The Tudors  
• Tubbs, Anna Malaika | The Three Mothers: How The Mothers Of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, And James Baldwin Shaped A Nation  
• Vickers, Hugo | The Sphinx: The Life Of Gladys Deacon | Duchess Of Marlborough  
• Ware, Susan | Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King And The Revolution In Women's Sports    
• Willan, Anne | Women In The Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined The Way We Eat, From 1661 To Today  

Biography and Non-fiction

• Barrett, Hayley | What Miss Mitchell Saw (Ages 3+)  
• Buzzeo, Toni | When Sue Found Sue (Ages 4+)
• Barnett, Mac | The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown (Ages 4+)
• Denise, Anika | Planting Stories: the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré (Ages 4+)
• Slade, Suzanne | A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon (Ages 4+)  
• Rappaport, Doreen | Ruth Objects: the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Ages 6+) 
• Winter, Jonah | Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality (Ages 6+) 
• Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and their big idea (Ages 7+)
• Chambers, Veronica |Finish the fight!: the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote (Ages 8+) 
• Vourvoulias, Sabrina | Nuestra America: 30 inspiring Latinas/Latinos who have shaped the United States (Ages 8+) 
• Levy, Debbie | Becoming RBG (Ages 10+)  
• Rubin, Susan Goldman | Give Us the Vote: over two hundred years of fighting for the ballot (Ages 10+)
• Sheinkin, Steve | Born to Fly: the first women's air race across America (Ages 10+)

Fiction

• Vermette, Katharena | The Girl and the Wolf (Ages 3+) 
• Farrell, Alison | The Hike (Ages 4+)
• Sorrell, Traci | At the Mountain's Base (Ages 4+) 
• Parr, Maria | Astrid the Unstoppable (Ages 7+)
• Marks, Janae | From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Ages 8+) 
• Harrington, Kim | Revenge of the Red Club Ages 9+
• Chokshi, Roshani | Aru Shah and the End of Time (Ages 9+)
• Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Loretta Little Looks Back (Ages 9+)
• Park, Linda Sue | Prairie Lotus (Age 9+)
• Wolk, Lauren | Echo Mountain (Ages 9+)
• Kelly, Erin Entrada | Lalani of the Distant Sea (Ages 9+)
• Kendall, Christine | The True Definition of Neva Beane (Ages 9+)  
• Barron, Rena | Maya and the Rising Dark  (Ages 10+)
• Saeed, Aisha |  Amal Unbound  (Ages 10+)  
• Ziboi, Ibi | My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich (Ages 10+)
• Firestone, Carrie | Dress Coded  (Ages 11+)
• Jaigirdar, Adiba | Henna Wars  (Ages 12+)
• Kaplan, A.E. | We Are the Perfect Girl (Ages 12+)
• Mabry, Samantha | Tigers, Not Daughters (Ages 12+)
• Anderson, Laurie Halse | Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed  (Ages 13+) 
• Kritzer, Naomi | Catfishing on CatNet  (Ages 13+)
• Lim, Elizabeth| Spin the Dawn (Ages 13+)
• Spooner, Meagan | Sherwood (Ages 13+)
• Acevedo, Elizabeth | Clap When You Land (Ages 14+) (also available in ebook and eaudiobook)
• Hattemer, Kate | Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid (Ages 14+)
• Liggett, Kim | The Grace Year (Ages 14+)
• Taylor, Mildred D. | All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (14+)