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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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

Kate Manne

256 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

303 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

104 pages • paperback • 1980

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

448 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction feminism health history informative reflective medium-paced
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

320 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

Sophie Lewis

320 pages • paperback • 2025

nonfiction feminism gender politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

All the Living and the Dead

Hayley Campbell

288 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced