March is Women's History Month -- a time to commemorate and encourage the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. We've compiled a booklist of books by, for, and about women of all ages!
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Children's Picture Books
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Big by Vashti Harrison
Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred by Deborah Hopkinson
Everything in its Place: A Story of Books and Belonging by Pauline David-Sax
A Garden in My Hands by Meera Sriram
A Girl Can Build Anything by eE Charlton-Trujillo
Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers
Mommy Time by Monique James-Duncan
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry
Remember by Joy Harjo
Standing on Her Shoulders: A Celebration of Women by Monica Clark-Robinson
That’s Not My Name! by Anoosha Syed
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
Woven of the World by Katey Howes
Children's Nonfiction
Be Bold! Be Brave!: 11 Latinas who made U.S. History by Naibe Reynoso
Brave, Black, First: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II by Liza Mundy
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
If You Were a Princess by Hillary Homzie
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Like a Girl by Lori Degman
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison
Muslim Girls Rise: Inspirational Champions of Our Time by Saira Mir
Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices & Changed the World edited by Erin Bried
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World by Susan Hood
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation by Ilene Cooper
Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment by Nancy B. Kennedy
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Alone by Megan Freeman
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe
The Braid Girls by Sherri Winston
The Dragon and the Stone by Kathryn Butler
Fibbed by Elizabeth Agyemang
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
Opportunity Knocks by Sara Farizan
There Flies the Witch by Mayonn Paasewe-Valchev
Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
Turning Point by Paula Chase
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and TR Simon
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
All the Fighting Parts by Hannah Sawyerr
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid by Kate Hattemer
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms
Not Here to be Liked by Michelle Quach
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno
Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos
A Scatter of Light by Melinda Lo
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
Teen and Young Adult Nonfiction
Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages edited by Melissa de la Cruz
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee
Feminism: Reinventing the F-word by Nadia Abushanab Higgins
Feminism Is… by Alexandra Black
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
Renegade Women in Film & TV by Elizabeth Weitzman
She Represents: 44 Women Who are Changing Politics...and the World by Caitlin Donohue
Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 by Jenniger Calvert
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Adult Fiction
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Ana Takes Manhattan by Lissette Decos
Broken Light by Joanne Harris
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
The Enchanted Hacienda by JC Cervantes
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo
The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Adult Nonfiction
10 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
This Body I Wore: A Memoir by Diana Goetsch
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
