March Book Recommendations

In honor of Women's History Month, this month's book recommendations are geared towards recognizing the achievements and stories of women!

Science & STEM Books

- A Black Women’s History of the United States

- Women in White Coats

- The Gendered Brain by Ginna Rippon

- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

- The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins

- Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer

- Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime

- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

- The Calculating Stars

- Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

- Headstrong: 52 Women who changed science and the world by Rachel Swaby

- In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

- Women in Science: Then and Now

- In Praise of Imperfection – by Rita Levi-Montalcini

- Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man – by Dale Peterson

General Books

- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

- A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

- Becoming by Michelle Obama

- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

- My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

- Hard Choices, by Hillary Clinton

- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker

Fictional Books (with strong female characters)

- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

- Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura

- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

- The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins

- Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden

- The Other Einstein: A Novel

- Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

- Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank

- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë