Books about Historical Women

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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Similar Novels 88%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Similar Novels 88%

The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir

Similar Novels 90%

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Similar Novels 86%

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Similar Novels 82%

West with the Night
Beryl Markham

Similar Novels 92%

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Rachel Swaby

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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Similar Novels 86%

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel

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Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
Kate Schatz

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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan

Similar Novels 88%

Rad American Women A-Z
Kate Schatz

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Warrior Queens
Antonia Fraser

Similar Novels 74%

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

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The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston

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March
Geraldine Brooks

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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Rachel Ignotofsky

Similar Novels 94%

Hild
Nicola Griffith

Similar Novels 80%

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