(Auto)Biographies, memoires, and stories of important women, both well and lesser known
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last updated May, 2026
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo
Flight of the Wild Swan
Melissa Pritchard
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Alice Wong
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline Tourmaline
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Catherine Clinton
Pirate Queen: A Story of Zheng Yi Sao
Helaine Becker
Artemisia Gentileschi
Mary D. Garrard
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel
Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen
Vanessa Collingridge
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
Ada Lovelace: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)
Hourly History
Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response
Lynn Powell
The Queen: Aretha Franklin
Mikal Gilmore
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706
John K. Thornton
Empress of China, Wu Ze Tian
Cheng An Jiang
Indira
Katherine Frank
The Diaries of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, 1885–1900
David W. Forbes
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Josephine Baker
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
Alexander Nemerov
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Julia Sweig
American Indian Stories (Modern Library Torchbearers)
Zitkála-Šá Zitkála-Šá
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Sonia Purnell
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Peter Kurth
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