Celebrate International Women’s Day!

In honor of International Women’s Day, here are some suggested books about women:

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 
  • Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
  • Woman As Healer by Jeanne Achterberg
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss

For more reading suggestions, Canterbury Classics has put together a list of works by authors who “all had to defy social norms and push boundaries in order to accomplish what they did, and although some didn’t live to see it, get the respect that they deserved”:

And publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House features the series Modern Library Torchbearers, books by “women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance”:

How about you?

What other reading do you suggest for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month?

© 2020 by Mary Daniels Brown

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