Show Me The Women

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

Update: I'm migrating to the new Book Club feature on StoryGraph going forward!

I host a virtual monthly book club in which reading nonfiction accounts of women in history who have been previously overlooked or under-celebrated. Meetings are virtual at 7 PM EST on the second Wednesday of every month. Feel free to join the discussion, or just use this as a reading list! (Reach out to @fromhollysbookshelf on Instagram if you'd like to be added to the email list.)

Challenge Prompts

1. Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health by J.C. Hallman

2. The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist by Carol A. Stabile

3. Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light by Liz Heinecke

4. The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs by Robert Mrazek

5. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

6. Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari

7. Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism by Macaela MacKenzie

8. Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the Us Aerobatic Team by Cecilia Aragon

9. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

10. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

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