Women You Should Know More About

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Overview

I’ve recently been encountering stories about women that I either hadn’t heard of or didn’t know much about and immediately wanted to know more about them. 

Challenge Books

Find a Way by Diana Nyad

Find a Way

Diana Nyad

The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield

The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life

Amy Butler Greenfield

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story by Emily Gibson, Barbara Firth

The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story

Emily Gibson, Barbara Firth

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

The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear by Kate Moore

The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

Kate Moore

Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson by Ashley Brown

Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson

Ashley Brown

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Sonia Sanchez

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing by Roger Gilles

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing

Roger Gilles

Speaking While Female by Dana Rubin

Speaking While Female

Dana Rubin