Women's History Month

 Women's History Month is an annual observance to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Celebrated during March in the United States, Germany, and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8, it is observed during October in Canada, corresponding with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18.

Goodreads curated a collection of new & recent nonfiction reads, from general nonfiction to histories, biographies, and memoirs.

Here is a list, however if you go to the linked (above) Goodreads article, you can see the book covers and click to read more about the books, making it more interesting than a list!!

History and Biography

Sisters in Science

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

A Flower Traveled in My Blood

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising – The Holocaust Biography of Female Resistance Leaders

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

The Sea Captain's Wife

Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – A Biography of the Visionary Science Fiction Writer and Black Power Voice

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising

Paris Undercover

Queens at War (England's Medieval Queens, #4)

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America – A Political History of Reproductive Freedom

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II

You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown

It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy

Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Carson McCullers: A Life

The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens

Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship

 Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors

Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker

Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore

Alice Baber: An Artist's Triumph Over Tragedy

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

General Nonfiction

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980

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

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate

Good Woman: A Reckoning

Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told

 I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Digital Girlhoods

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood

The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up