Reading nonfiction for Women's History Month

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12 participants (49 books)

01 Mar 2025—31 Mar 2025

Overview

March is a great opportunity to read more nonfiction written by/about women!
Challenge yourself by reading 5 nonfiction books of your choice this month. 

Challenge Books

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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving Everest by Lene Gammelgaard

Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving Everest

Lene Gammelgaard

211 pages • hardcover • 1999

nonfiction adventurous reflective fast-paced
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

Shelley Emling

234 pages • paperback • 2009

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring medium-paced
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream

348 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Soraya Chemaly

11 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction essays feminism politics challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

7 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2022 user-added

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

291 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball

Love, Lucy

Lucille Ball

6 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 1996

nonfiction autobiography memoir lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Laura Jane Grace

320 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir music emotional reflective medium-paced
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

325 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced