MCCPL: What To Read: Women's History Month

Press release from the McCracken County Public Library:

Library Staff

March 1, 2022

Women’s History Month began in 1987 after the National Women’s History Project petitioned to expand Women’s History Week, which corresponded with International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope, a “tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.”

This Women’s History Month, celebrate the women in your lives by educating yourself on women’s issues and history, and supporting women creators! We’ve got some non-fiction and fiction reads we recommend.

Adult Non-Fiction:

• America’s Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell
• Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
• Casi Una Mujer by Esmerelda Santiago
• Eleanor and Hick: the Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
• The Feminst Revolution: the Struggle for Women’s Liberation by Bonnie Morris and D. M. Withers
• Heart Berries by Teresa Marie Mailhot
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
• Thick: and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles 
• Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde 

Adult Fiction:

• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
• Blue Flowers by Carola Saavedra 
• Brass by Xhenet Aliu
• Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford 
• Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 
• Fiona and Jane by Chen Ho
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
• If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Lakewood by Megan Giddings
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
• The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan
• The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya 
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• We Had No Rules by Corrine Manning 

Young Adult Titles:

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer De Leon
• Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
• Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
• If You Only Knew by Prerna Pickett
• Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon
• A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope edited by Patrice Caldwell
• Roman + Jewel by Dana Davis
• A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
• This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
• This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Williams
• We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
• When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
• You Have A Match by Emma Lord 

Juvenile Titles:

• Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
• Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
• If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall
• Just Being Jackie by Margaret Cardillo
• Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
• The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
• The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane by Kate O’ Shaughnessy
• Loretta Little Looks Back : Three Voices Go Tell It by Andrea David Pinkey
• Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard
• She Was The First! : The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown
• Stand Up, Yumi Chang! by Jessica Kim
• Stepping Stones by Lucy Kinsley
• They Went Left by Monica Hesse
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
• A Woman in the House (and Senate) by Ilene Cooper

Early Titles:

• Buffalo Bird Girl by S. D. Nelson
• Charlotte the Scientist Finds A Cure by Camille Andros
• For the Right to Learn by Rebecca Langston-George
• Frida Kahlo by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
• Grace Goes to Washington by Kelly DiPucchio
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers
• Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
• The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
• Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki
• Please, Louise by Toni Morrison 
• Princesses Save the World by Savannah Guthrie
• Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz
• Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women That Changed the World by Susan Hood
• She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton
• This Little Trailblazer by Joan Holub
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
• What Are Little Girls Made Of? by Jeanne Willis
• Women In Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

Don’t forget to check out our Women’s History Month displays!

This press release was produced by the McCracken County Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.