Women’s History Month | 10 Books To Add to the Collection and Share with Readers

by LJ Reviews
Mar 01, 2023 | Filed in Reviews+

Women’s history is not confined by borders or dates. It is unfolding in the headlines every day, around the globe. It is in the pages of these books too, which range across time and continents while considering the varied lives and histories of women.

Women’s history is not confined by borders or dates. It is unfolding in the headlines every day, around the globe. It is in the pages of these 10 books too, which range across time and continents while considering the varied lives and histories of women.

Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic. Restless. Jun. 2021. 256p. ISBN 9781632062895. pap. $18. F 

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. Translated by Jamie Chang. Liveright: Norton. Apr. 2020. 144p. ISBN 9781631496707. $20. F 

Matrix by Lauren Groff. Riverhead. Sept. 2021. 272p. ISBN 9781594634499. $28. F

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. Graywolf. Oct. 2017. 264p. ISBN 9781555977887. $16. F

Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley. Morrow. Jul. 2022. 480p. ISBN 9780063073548. $27.99. F 

Nonfiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren. S. & S. Mar. 2021. 384p. ISBN 9781982123895. $27. SOC SCI 

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke. Houghton Harcourt. Mar. 2021. 288p. ISBN 9780358251408. $28. HIST 

Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller. One World. Jan. 2021. 272p. ISBN 9781984820396. $27. BIOG 

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey. Penguin. Sept. 2019. 320p. ISBN 9780525560340. $28. SOC SCI 

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry. Beacon. Sept. 2018. 256p. notes. index. ISBN 9780807064498. $27.95. BIOG 

 

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