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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 815,350 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 191,876 ratings
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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3.90 avg rating — 30,698 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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4.23 avg rating — 7,658 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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4.18 avg rating — 64,008 ratings
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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3.98 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
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4.31 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933
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4.01 avg rating — 6,775 ratings
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
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3.73 avg rating — 27,405 ratings
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Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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3.86 avg rating — 114,747 ratings
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Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
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4.16 avg rating — 3,920 ratings
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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3.91 avg rating — 9,598 ratings
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Almost Famous Women: Stories
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3.46 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 115,036 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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3.89 avg rating — 24,683 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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3.97 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603
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3.49 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Madame de Pompadour
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3.84 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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Lightning Mary
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3.81 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Cleopatra: The dazzling life story of the Queen of Egypt, the New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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3.73 avg rating — 124,176 ratings
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
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4.07 avg rating — 50,568 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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3.95 avg rating — 6,711 ratings
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Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
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4.27 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
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3.93 avg rating — 619 ratings
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
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4.03 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,452 ratings
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Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
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4.01 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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4.06 avg rating — 31,035 ratings
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
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3.93 avg rating — 15,819 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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4.33 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
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3.78 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Untamed
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3.97 avg rating — 521,066 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938
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4.30 avg rating — 1,840 ratings
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
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3.62 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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4.21 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Janis: Her Life and Music
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4.14 avg rating — 2,889 ratings
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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4.36 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
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3.40 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 63,082 ratings
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An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher
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3.55 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Writing a Life: L. M. Montgomery (Canadian Biography Series)
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3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Indira
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4.06 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
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4.25 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
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4.14 avg rating — 5,515 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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4.03 avg rating — 5,386 ratings
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The Wasp and The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman
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3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
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3.26 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
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3.79 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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3.69 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
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3.79 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Marie Curie: A Life
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4.22 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,452 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 9,082 ratings
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
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4.21 avg rating — 3,216 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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3.84 avg rating — 29,352 ratings
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
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3.69 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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3.41 avg rating — 7,823 ratings
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Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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