Her-storyathon Readathon 2024 - hosted by charlottecoyne

Activist/political woman
If she took a stand for something she believed in, it counts for this prompt!
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Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett

Anna of Byzantium

Tracy Barrett

224 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction historical young adult emotional informative slow-paced
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

Charlotte Gordon

672 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism historical history challenging informative fast-paced
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Deborah E. Lipstadt
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch
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Deborah E. Lipstadt, Deborah E. Lipstadt

Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Deborah E. Lipstadt

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

64 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

377 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Inside One Author's Heart by Eugenia Price

Inside One Author's Heart

Eugenia Price

115 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

Jeffrey H. Jackson

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Joan of Arc
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Mark Twain

Joan of Arc

Mark Twain

missing page info • first pub 1896 (editions)

fiction classics historical adventurous challenging slow-paced
Ferraro: My Story by Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke

Ferraro: My Story

Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke

340 pages • first pub 1985 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir politics informative inspiring slow-paced
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs

Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters

Diane Jacobs

499 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history informative slow-paced