Memoirs and biographies centering stellar women athletes. 🏀 ⚽️ 🎾🏃🏽♀️🏊🏼♀️⛷️🥎🏐🏒🏅🚴🏾♀️🤺🤾♀️🏟️⛸️🏄🏼♀️ 💅Get inspired by the greats, then go out and play!
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last updated September, 2026
Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History
Molly Schiot
All In: An Autobiography
Billie Jean King
One Life
Megan Rapinoe
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Simone Biles
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
Katie Ledecky
A League of My Own: Memoir of a Pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Patricia I. Brown
Snowboard Girl
Shannon Dunn-Downing
Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders
Natalie Porter
A Completely Different Game: My Leadership Playbook
Emma Hayes
Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution
Ellie Roscher
I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams
Jordan Chiles
Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism
Macaela MacKenzie
Unstoppable: My Life So Far
Maria Sharapova
Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts
Maya Moore Irons
Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion
Missy Franklin
The Heart Is the Strongest Muscle: Know Your Why and Take Your Mindset from Great to Unstoppable
Tia Toomey
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Lynn Hill
Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Kathrine Switzer
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Karen Valby
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
Gracie Gold
Choosing to Run: A Memoir
Des Linden
The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
Caster Semenya
It's Not About the Bra: Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back Into Competitive Sports
Brandi Chastain
Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice
Ben Rothenberg
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
Alexi Pappas
How (Not) To Be Strong
Alex Scott
Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Don Van Natta Jr.
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
Ashima Shiraishi
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Anika Orrock
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