20 Books by Female Authors in 2025

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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

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Read 20 (or more) books written by Female Authors in 2025.

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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

295 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

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nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective medium-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

363 pages • 2020 • 21 editions

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nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

ReVisioning American History #5

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

298 pages • 2020 • 9 editions

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

512 pages • 2007 • 11 editions

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

528 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

558 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

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nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

366 pages • 2020 • 11 editions

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • 2010 • 30 editions

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease

Arleen Marcia Tuchman

288 pages • 2020 • 4 editions

challenging informative slow-paced
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

464 pages • 2014 • 93 editions

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced