Women's History Month Recommended Reading

We are featuring books that celebrate female voices during the month of March in celebration of Women's History Month. Check out our in-store displays and select reading lists for every age group throughout the month at River Bend Bookshop.

Bad Feminist: Essays By Roxane Gay Cover Image
The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing By Denis Mukwege Cover Image
The Feminine Mystique By Betty Friedan, Gail Collins (Introduction by), Anna Quindlen (Afterword by) Cover Image
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells By Michelle Duster Cover Image
Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR By Lisa Napoli Cover Image
Becoming By Michelle Obama Cover Image
Our Bodies, Ourselves By Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian Cover Image
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. Nimura Cover Image
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back By Kate Moore Cover Image
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency By Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translated by), Michael Favala Goldman (Translated by) Cover Image
Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold Histories of Women in Bicycling By April Streeter Cover Image
Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
Pelosi By Molly Ball Cover Image
Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering By Paige Bowers, David Montague Cover Image
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International) By Joan Didion Cover Image
The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy By Joanne L. Bagshaw, Soraya Chemaly (Foreword by) Cover Image
We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights By Karen Blumenthal Cover Image
Eleanor By David Michaelis Cover Image
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History) By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross Cover Image
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Third Edition By Gloria Steinem, Emma Watson (Foreword by) Cover Image
My Own Words By Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett (With), Wendy W. Williams (With) Cover Image
One Life By Megan Rapinoe, Emma Brockes Cover Image
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free By Paulina Bren Cover Image
Call Us What We Carry: Poems By Amanda Gorman Cover Image
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Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Betty White: 100 Years of Wisdom from the First Lady of Television By Juliana Sharaf Cover Image
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think) By Reshma Saujani Cover Image
Ain't I a Woman? (Penguin Great Ideas) By Sojourner Truth Cover Image
Suffragette Manifestos (Penguin Great Ideas) By Various Cover Image
Ladyparts: A Memoir By Deborah Copaken Cover Image
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By Anna Malaika Tubbs Cover Image
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art By Mary Gabriel Cover Image
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50 By Grace Bonney Cover Image