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Readers' Advisory: Strong Female Characters: Non-Fiction

Fiction, Non-Fiction, E-Books, Audiobooks and Graphic Novels that feature strong female characters

Non-Fiction in Print

Bossypants by Tina Fey
Call Number: PN2287.F4255 A3 2011
ISBN: 0316056863
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: HQ1206 .A255 2017
ISBN: 9781524733131
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Call Number: HV5132 .W35 2006
ISBN: 0743247531
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Call Number: HD6054.3 .S265 2013
ISBN: 0385349947
Publication Date: 2013-03-11
Millionaire Women Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
Call Number: HD6072.6.U5 S73 2004
ISBN: 9780740755705
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon; Shana Knizhnik
Call Number: KF8745.G56 C37 2015
ISBN: 9780062415837
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Call Number: HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017
ISBN: 9781492649359
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Call Number: PR6045.O72 Z474 1989
ISBN: 0156787334
Publication Date: 1989-12-27

Non-Fiction as Audio

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay; Bahni Turpin (Read by)
ISBN: 9780062379764
Publication Date: 2014-08-05
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; Robin Miles (Read by)
ISBN: 0062472070
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy (Read by)
Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Caroli
ISBN: 9781442397392
Publication Date: 2015-11-03
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King and Phylicia Rashad
ISBN: 9781427282842
Publication Date: 2017
Out of the Dark by Mandisa Lynn Hundley; Read by Suzanne Gosselin
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
ISBN: 9780385354042
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
ISBN: 9781442396203
Publication Date: 2015-11-10

Non-Fiction as eBook

Coming on Strong by Susan K. Cahn
ISBN: 9780252039553
Publication Date: 2015-02-15
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State by Shannon Speed
ISBN: 9781469653143
Publication Date: 2019
The League of Lady Poisoners by Lisa Perrin; Maria Trimarchi (Foreword by); Holly Frey (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781797217956
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
ISBN: 9780062092915
The Rulebreaker by Susan Page
ISBN: 9781982197940
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow
ISBN: 9780385548762
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
ISBN: 9781524869854
Women of Colonial America by Brandon Marie Miller
ISBN: 1556524889
Publication Date: 2016-02-01