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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,205,527 ratings
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Daphne du Maurier
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4.04 avg rating — 1,133 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,931 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,378 ratings
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Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603
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3.50 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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The Brontës
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3.98 avg rating — 5,300 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 583,163 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 262,708 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 68,010 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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3.89 avg rating — 5,206 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.10 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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3.83 avg rating — 2,870 ratings
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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3.90 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 123,402 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 869,630 ratings
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Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess
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3.87 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
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4.11 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë
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4.04 avg rating — 209 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 54,430 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 140,568 ratings
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
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4.38 avg rating — 3,475 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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3.98 avg rating — 131 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 17,823 ratings
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Women on the Prairie: Stories of Grit, Survival, and Unbroken Spirit on the American Frontier
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Zelda
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3.82 avg rating — 10,437 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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3.92 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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Women and Clemson University: Excellence--yesterday And Today
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
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4.22 avg rating — 4,737 ratings
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Mothers, Sisters, Soldiers, Spies: Women at War in American Military History
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 124,173 ratings
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
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4.36 avg rating — 3,280 ratings
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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4.08 avg rating — 3,380 ratings
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They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
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3.64 avg rating — 319 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 89,122 ratings
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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3.88 avg rating — 330 ratings
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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3.68 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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3.98 avg rating — 14,386 ratings
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Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
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4.20 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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3.41 avg rating — 7,719 ratings
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Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
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3.76 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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4.03 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
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3.59 avg rating — 898 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 357,949 ratings
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Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
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3.77 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
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4.30 avg rating — 41,415 ratings
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
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4.10 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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3.77 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Far Side of the Moon: Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and the Woman Who Gave Him Wings
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4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
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3.58 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Jill: A Biography of the First Lady
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3.82 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – A Powerful Biography of the Woman Airbrushed Out of Scientific History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
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4.38 avg rating — 17,947 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
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3.89 avg rating — 24,473 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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4.02 avg rating — 6,948 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.91 avg rating — 10,738 ratings
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Faulkner and Southern Womanhood
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2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
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4.16 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
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Esther
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3.99 avg rating — 252 ratings
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A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs
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3.53 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
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3.29 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
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3.94 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman's Daring in Twentieth-Century America
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3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Secrets and Lies
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3.67 avg rating — 428 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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4.04 avg rating — 23,503 ratings
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Queens of England
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4.01 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
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3.95 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
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3.35 avg rating — 8,232 ratings
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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4.08 avg rating — 5,126 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 — 7,536 ratings
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The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati
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4.15 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess
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4.04 avg rating — 637 ratings
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The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
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3.65 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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3.73 avg rating — 6,567 ratings
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Ramlin Rose : The Boatwoman's Story
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4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings
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In Search Of Mary Shelley
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3.64 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Muriel Spark: The Biography
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3.88 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
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3.99 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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The Sad Case of Mrs. Kate Southern! The Beautiful, Virtuous Georgia Wife, Who, Being Maddened to Insanity by the Outrageous Taunts of a Bad Woman who Had Enticed Her Husband Away, Killed Her
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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4.33 avg rating — 7,131 ratings
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
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3.65 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Nancy Wake
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4.26 avg rating — 3,701 ratings
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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4.10 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
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4.24 avg rating — 596 ratings
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The Bandit Queen Of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant To International Legend
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4.30 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
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3.73 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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4.10 avg rating — 10,659 ratings
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Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
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4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
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4.31 avg rating — 43,666 ratings
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Florence Nightingale
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3.93 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi
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3.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
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3.21 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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3.76 avg rating — 17,196 ratings
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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4.20 avg rating — 3,027 ratings
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Infidel
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4.20 avg rating — 92,740 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,032 ratings
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