Here it is ladies! A list of female biographies! Highly anticipated by nobody but myself! This took a long time, so I hope it might be enjoyable to at least some people. I'll add to this whenever I feel like it. A few things before I begin:
1. The list is (roughly) organized alphabetically by the subjects last name.
2. The subjects occupation (if they had one) will be labeled with a corresponding symbol (i.e. painter = 🎨, writer =✏️, and so on and so forth). Books about same sex attracted women (lesbian or bi women) and women of color are labeled. Occupations that cannot be easily represented by symbols will simply be stated.
3. Biographies written or co-written by men will have with 🧔 after their names.
4. The subjects full birth name will be in brackets after the title.
5. If you're curious about a book and want more information or content warnings, please message me. I'll help as best I can.
•Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey [Abigail Adams] (Activist)
•Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra [Marian Hooper Adams]
•Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas [Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams]
•Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight [Jane Addams] (Activist, SSA)
•Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reeder [Anna Andreyevna Gorenko] (✏️)
•Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen [Louisa May Alcott] (Activist, SSA,✏️)
•Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan [Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva] (✏️)
•Marian Anderson, A Singers Journey by Allen Keiler 🧔 [Marian Anderson] (WOC, Activist, 🎙)
•The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling [Mary Anning] (🦕)
•Susan B. Anthony: A Biography by Kathleen Barry [Susan B. Anthony] (Activist, SSA)
•Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser [Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne] (👑)
•Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade [Eleanor of Aquitaine] (👑)
•Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight [Catherine of Aragon] ( 👑)
•Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley [Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll] (👑)
•Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase [Ruth Aiko Asawa] (WOC, Sculptor)
•Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields [Jane Austen] (✏️)
•Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain by Silvia Z. Mitchell [Mariana of Austria] (👑)
•The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Brigette Hamann [Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary] (👑)
•Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Cosmic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer 🧔 [Lucille Désirée Ball] (🎥)
•Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden [Theodosia Burr Goodman, "Theda Bara"] (📽)
•Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez [Natalie Clifford Barney] (SSA, ✏️)
•Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker 🧔 [Freda Josephine McDonald Baker] (WOC, SSA, Dancer, 📽)
•A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and The Civil War by Stephan B. Oates 🧔 [Clarissa Harlowe Barton] (🩺)
•Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft [Countess Erzsébet Báthory de Ecsed] (Serial Killer)
•Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair [Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir] (Activist, ✏️)
•The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd [Aphra Behn] (✏️)
•Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach [Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell] (Archaeologist)
•Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding [Vanessa Stephen Bell] (🎨)
•Ingrid Bergman by Grace May Carter [Ingrid Bergman] (🎥)
•Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World's First Superstar by Catherine Reef [Henriette-Rosine Bernard, "Sarah Bernhardt"] (🎭)
•Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant [Annie Wood Besant] (Activist, ✏️)
•Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto [Benazir Bhutto] (WOC, Prime Minister)
•Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks [Saint Hildegard] (Abbess, Musician)
•Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven [Ada Delutuk Blackjack] (WOC, Explorer)
•The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura [Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell] (🩺)
•Lady Icarus: Balloonomania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Noyes [Marie Madeleine-Sophie Armant Blanchard] (🎈)
•Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth by Marion Meade [Helena Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky] (✏️)
•Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger [Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, "Nellie Bly"] (Activist, Reporter)
•Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts [Anne Boleyn] (👑)
•Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams [Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie Bonaparte] (👑)
•The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson [Lizzie Andrew Borden] (🪓)
•Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford [Lucrezia Borgia] (Governor)
•Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge [Boudica] (👑, 🗡)
•Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White [Margaret Bourke-White] (📷)
•Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn 🧔[Clara Gordan Bow] (📽)
•The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien's Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays 🧔 [Edith Mary Bratt Tolkien]
•The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert [Eva Anna Paula Braun Hitler] (📷)
•Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Lady Anne Somerset [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] (👑)
•Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson [Georgia Ann Thompson Broadwick] (🪂)
•The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef [Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Anne Brontë] (✏️)
•Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen [Margaret Tobin Brown] (Socialite)
•The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen 🧔 [Mildred Burke] (Wrestler)
•Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Gerzina [Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett] (✏️)
•Josephine Butler by Jane Jordan [Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler] (Activist)
•Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus [Anna Isabella Noel Milbanke Byron, 11th Baroness of Wentworth] (Mathematician)
•Theodora by Paolo Cesaretti 🧔 [Theodora Empress of Byzantium] (👑)
•Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer Laurie Shaw [Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, "Claude Cahun"] (SSA, 📷)
•Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography by Anne Edwards [Sophie Cecilia Kalos, "Maria Callas"] (Opera Singer)
•Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda J. Lear [Rachel Louise Carson] (✏️, Marine Biologist)
•A Girl and Five Brave Horses by Sonora Webster Carver [Sonora Webster Carver] (Horse Diver)
•Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] (WOC, Activist, Publisher)
•Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson 🧔 and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 🧔 [Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino] (Socialite)
•Mary Cassatt: A Life by Nancy Mathews [Mary Stevenson Cassatt] (🎨)
•Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman [Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire] (Activist,✏️)
•Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett 🧔 [Isabella I of Castile] (👑)
•Chanel: The Enigma by Isabelle Fiemeyer [Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel] (👗)
•The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla by Jean-Pierre Harrison 🧔 [Kalpana Chawla] (WOC, Astronaut, Engineer)
•The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modren China by Hannah Pakuka [Soong May-ling] (WOC)
•Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch [Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child] (👩🍳)
•Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm [Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm] (WOC, Politician)
•Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley [Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Lady Mallowan] (✏️)
•Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Lauched Modern China by Jung Chang [The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire] (WOC, 👑)
•Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell [Clementine Oglivy Spencer Hozior Churchill] (War-time Activist)
•Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff [Cleopatra VII Philopator] (👑)
•Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady by Annette B. Dunlap [Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston]
•Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton [Anne of Cleves] (👑)
•Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, "Colette"] (SSA, ✏️)
•In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum [Marie Catherine Colvin] (Journalist)
•Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House by Robert Hugh Ferrell 🧔 [Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge] (Teacher)
•Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey [Emma Wedgwood Darwin]
•Alexandra David-Neel: Portrait of an Adventurer by Ruth Middleton [Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David-Néel] (Explorer)
•Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis by Abigail Santamaria [Helen Joy Davidson] (✏️)
•Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies by Lara Gabrielle [Marion Cecilia Douras] (📽)
•Bette Davis by Grace May Carter [Ruth Elizabeth Davis] (🎥)
•Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette by Lucy Fisher [Emily Wilding Davison] (Activist, Teacher)
•The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Gladys Marie Deacon Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough] (Socialite)
•Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Easter de Berdt Reed and the American Revolution by Owen S. Ireland 🧔 [Easter de Berdt Reed] (War-time Activist)
•Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead [Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet] (Aristocrat)
•Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda [Catherine de' Medici] (👑)
•Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love by Frances Diamond [Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Denmark] (👑)
•Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis [Christina da Pizzano] (✏️)
•Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant by Kathi Diamant [Dora Diamant] (🎭)
•The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder [Catherine Thomson Hogarth Dickens] (✏️)
•Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Wolff [Emily Elizabeth Dickinson] (SSA, ✏️)
•Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman [Baroness Karen Chistenze Dinesen von Blixen-Finecke, "Isak Dinesen"] (✏️)
•Emily Donelson of Tennessee by Pauline Wilcox Burke [Emily Donelson]
• The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew Kaufman 🧔 [Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina Dostoevskaya] (✏️)
•I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal by Mary Mudd [Livia Drusilla] (👑)
•Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay [Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning] (SSA, ✏️)
•My Life by Isadora Duncan [Angela Isadora Duncan] (SSA, Dancer)
•Eleonora Duse: A Biography by Helen Sheehy [Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse] (SSA, 🎭)
•East to Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler [Amelia Mary Earhart] (🛩)
•Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life by Amy Aronson [Crystal Catherine Eastman] (Activist, Lawyer)
•Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady by Marilyn Holt [Mary Geneva Doud Eisenhower]
•The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir [Elizabeth the I of England] (👑)
•Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley [Empress Matilda of England] (👑)
•Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald by Geoffrey Mark [Ella Jane Fitzgerald] (WOC, 🎙)
•Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford [Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald] (✏️)
•Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel [Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Dauphine of France] (👑)
•The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal [Veronica Franco] (Activist, ✏️)
•Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox [Rosalind Elsie Franklin] (🧬)
•Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore [Jane Franklin Mecom]
•The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography by John Matteson 🧔 [Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli] (Activist, Journalist)
•Indira Gandhi: A Biography by Pupul Jayakar [Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi] (WOC, Prime Minister)
•Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin [Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin] (Astronomer)
•Garbo by Robert Gottlieb 🧔 [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, "Greta Garbo"] (SSA, 🎥)
•Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery 🧔 [Emma Rowena Caldwell Gatewood] (Hiker)
•Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis [Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau] (Socialite)
•Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead [Martha Ellis Gellhorn] (Journalist)
•Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Jane Lancaster [Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth] (Psychologist, Engineer)
•Jane Goodall: The Woman who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson 🧔 [Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall] (🐵)
•Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Agnes de Mille [Martha Graham] (Dancer)
•Personal History by Katherine Graham [Katherine Meyer Graham] (Publisher)
•The General's Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant by Ishbel Ross [Julia Boggs Dent Grant]
•Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg, Princess of Greece and Denmark] (👑)
•Caty: A Biography of Catherine Littlefield Greene by John F. Stegeman 🧔 and Janet A. Stegeman [Catherine Littlefield Greene Miller] (Inventor)
•Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden [Lady Jane Grey] (👑)
•Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle by Janet Guthrie [Janet Guthrie] (🏎)
•A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell [Virginia Hall] (Espionage Agent)
•England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams [Dame Amy Emma Lyon Hamilton] (Maid)
•Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence by Joy Bright Hancock [Joy Bright Hancock] (Warrant Officer)
•Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber [Ruth Marianna Mosko Handler] (Business Woman)
•First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy by Katherine A. S. Sibley [Florence Mabel Kling Harding]
•Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer [Anne Hathaway]
•The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney [Hatshepsut] (WOC, 👑)
•Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian 🧔 [Mary Welsh Hemingway] (Journalist)
•Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows: The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Henie by Leif Henie 🧔 and Raymond Strait 🧔 [Sonja Henie] (⛸️)
•Katherine Hepburn by Grace May Carter [Katherine Houghton Hepburn] (🎥)
•Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry [Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin] (Chemist)
•Grace Hooper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt Beyer 🧔 [Grace Brewster Murray Hooper] (Computer Scientist, Navy Admiral)
•Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Beck Young [Lou Henry Hoover] (Activist, Linguist)
•A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford [Whitney Elizabeth Houston] (WOC, SSA, 🎤)
•Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell 🧔 [Catherine Howard] (👑)
•The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard by Mina Benson Hubbard [Mina Benson Hubbard] (Explorer)
•The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp [Anne Marbury Hutchinson] (Minister)
•Geisha of Gion: Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Gail Brown [Mineko Iwasaki] (WOC, Former Geisha,✏️)
•Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin [Shirley Hardie Jackson] (✏️)
•Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson [Katherine Johnson] (WOC, Mathematician)
•Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell [Claudia Atla Taylor Johnson] (Environmentalist)
•Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox [Nora Barnacle Joyce] (✏️)
•Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera [Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón] (WOC, SSA, 🎨)
•The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story by Barbara Firth and Emily Gibson [Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman] (🏊♀️)
•Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson [Rose Marie Kennedy]
•Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara Leaming [Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington] (Socialite)
•Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara [Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver] (Disability Rights Activist)
•Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley and Joe Hilley 🧔 [Coretta Scott King] (WOC, Activist, ✏️)
•The Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross 🧔 [Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Queen of the United Kingdom] (👑)
•Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy [Eartha Mae Keith Kitt] (WOC, Activist, 🎙, 🎥)
•Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis [Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester and Essex] (👑)
•The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot [Loretta Pleasant Lacks, Deborah Lacks Pullum] (WOC)
•Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long [Marie Delphine Macarty Lalaurie] (Serial Killer)
•Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton [Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, "Hedy Lamarr"] (Inventor, 📽)
•Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe by Geri Walton [Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe] (Aristocrat)
•Harriet Lane, America's First Lady by Milton Stern 🧔 [Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston]
•Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon [Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn] (📷)
•In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George B. Hutchinson 🧔 [Nellallitea Walker Larsen] (WOC, ✏️)
•Rani Laxmibai: Warrior Queen of Jhansi by Pratibha Ranade [Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi] (WOC, 👑, 🗡)
•Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward [Marie Catherine Laveau] (WOC, Herbalist)
•The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith [Marguerite Alice LeHand] (Secretary)
•Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis by Lenore Skomal [Idawalley Zoradia Lewis] (Lighthouse Keeper)
•Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker [Mary Ann Todd Lincoln]
•Anne Marrow Lindbergh: Her Life by Susan Hertog [Anne Spencer Marrow Lindbergh] (✏️, 🛩)
•Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser 🧔 [Clarice Lispector] (✏️)
•Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery [Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth] (Socialite, ✏️)
•Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux [Audrey Geraldine Lorde] (WOC, SSA, Activist, ✏️)
•Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Adrian Clifford Rice 🧔, Christopher Hollings 🧔, and Ursula Martin [Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace] (Mathematician)
•Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery [Juliette Gordon Low] (Founder of Girl Scouts)
•Rosa Luxemburg by Dana Mills [Rosa Luxemburg] (Anti-War Activist)
•A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor [Dolley Payne Todd Madison]
•Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob [Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela] (WOC, Activist, Politician)
•Terrible Typoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti [Mary Mallon] (🍲)
•Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller [Wilma Pearl Mankiller] (WOC, Activist)
•Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell [Beryl Markham] (🛩)
•Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes [Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx] (Translator)
•Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime [Elise Meitner] (Physicist)
•Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd [Maria Sibylla Merian] (Naturalist)
•Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema [Ynés Enriquetta Julietta Mexía] (WOC, 🌸)
•Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition by Madeline Mary Henry [Aspasia of Miletus] (Teacher)
•Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford [Edna St. Vincent Millay] (SSA, ✏️)
•Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Millholland by Linda J. Lumsden [Inez Millholland Boissevain] (Activist)
•I Am Melba: A Biography by Ann Blainey [Dame Helen Porter Mitchell, "Nellie Melba"] (Opera Singer)
•Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Anne Edwards [Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell] (✏️)
•Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner [Norma Jean Mortensen, "Marilyn Monroe"] (🎥)
•Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography by Linda Gordon [Ingeborg Hermine Morath] (📷)
•Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan 🧔 [Mary Sherman Morgan] (Engineer)
•Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track by Shirley Muldowney [Shirley Muldowney] (🏎)
•Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff [Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova] (Editor)
•Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse by Catherine Reef [Florence Nightingale] (Statistician)
•Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady by Mary Brennan [Thelma Catherine Nixon]
•The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton by Diane Atkinson [Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Sterling Maxwell] (Activist, ✏️)
•Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney
•Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen by Anne Chambers [Grace O'Malley] (🏴☠️)
•Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming [Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis]
•Oona, Living in the Shadows by Jane Scovell [Oona O'Neil, Lady Chaplin] (📽)
•The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling [Sonia Mary Brownell Orwell] (Archivist)
•Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp [Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy Blair]
•Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade [Dorothy Rothschild Parker] (✏️)
•The Rebellious Life Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis [Rosa Louise McCauley Parks] (WOC, Activist)
•Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter [Katherine Parr] (👑)
•Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones [Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Carter Parsons] (WOC, Activist)
•The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara [Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi Trent] (Special Effects Desinger)
•Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson by Amanda Smith [Eleanor Josephine Medill Patterson, Countess Gizycki] (Journalist, Newspaper Editor)
•A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton [Alice Stokes Paul] (Activist)
•Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko [Lyudmila Mikhailovna Belova Pavlichenko] (Sniper)
•Anna Pavlova: Twentieth Century Ballerina by Caroline Hamilton and Jane Pritchard [Anna Matveyevna Pavlova] (Dancer)
•The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kristen Downey [Fannie Coralie Perkins] (Workers-Rights Activist, Secretary of Labor)
•Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicolas Fraser 🧔 and Marysa Navarro [María Eva Durate de Perón] (Activist, Politician)
•Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage by Ruth A. Hawkins [Pauline Marie Pfeiffer] (Journalist)
•No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke [Édith Giovanna Gassion, "Edith Piaf"] (SSA,🎙)
•Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark [Sylvia Plath] (✏️)
•Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg [Sarah Childress Polk]
•Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda J. Lear [Helen Beatrix Potter] (✏️)
•The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown [Florence Beatrice Smith Price] (WOC, Classical Composer)
•Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai by Uma Chakravarti [Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati] (WOC, Scholar)
•Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times by Cynthia Kierner [Martha Jefferson Randolph]
•The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty [Anne Frances Robbins] (🎥)
•I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour [Ella Gwendolyn Ress Williams] (✏️)
•Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto [Elizabeth Hadley Richardson] (🎹)
•Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr [Sally Kristen Ride] (SSA, 👩🚀)
•Amy Robsart: A Life and Its End by Christine Hartweg [Amy Robsart Dudley]
•I Live Again: A Memoir of Ileana, Princess of Romania and Archduchess of Austria by Alexandra [Princess Ileana of Romania, Mother Alexandra] (👑)
•The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport [Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova, Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova] (👑)
•Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. 1-3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook [Anna Eleanor Roosevelt] (SSA, Activist)
•Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady by Sylvia Jukes Morris [Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt]
•Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller [Elizabeth Griscom Ross] (Upholsterer)
•The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania by Hannah Pakula [Marie Alexandra Victoria, Princess of Edinburgh, Queen of Roumania] (👑)
•Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga [Sophie Frierderike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornberg, Empress Catherine II of Russia] (👑)
•Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning [Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson] (SSA, ✏️)
•Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock [Charlotte Salomon] (🎨)
•Margherita of Savoy, First Queen of Italy: Her Life and Times by Fanny Zampini-Salazar [Margherita Maria Theresa Giovanna of Savoy, Queen of Italy] (👑)
•Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams [Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots] (👑)
•Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC by Karen Chilton [Hazel Dorothy Scott] (WOC, 🎹)
•Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo [Irena Stanisława Krzyżanowska Sendler] (Humanitarian Aid Worker)
•Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook [Anne Gray Harvey Sexton] (✏️)
•Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton [Jane Seymour] (👑)
•Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith Before and After Malcom X by Russell J. Rickford 🧔 [Betty Dean Sanders Shabazz] (WOC, Educator)
•Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley] (✏️)
•The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcee Who Became the Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak [Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor] (Socialite)
•Aviatrix by Elinor Smith [Elinor Smith] (🛩)
•Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser 🧔 [Susan Sontag] (Activist, ✏️)
•Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard 🧔 [Dame Muriel Sarah Camberg Spark] (✏️)
•Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led by Anne Edwards [Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales] (👑)
•Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny by Alexandra Lapierre [Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson] (✏️)
•Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life by Sally Gregory McMillan [Lucy Stone] (Activist)
•Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei by Helen Y. Rolfe and Junko Tabei [Junko Ishibashi Tabei] (WOC, Mountaineer)
•Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era by Carl Sferrazza Anthony 🧔 [Helen Louise Herron Taft] (Activist)
•Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina by Larry Kaplan 🧔 and Maria Tallchief [Elizabeth Marie Tallchief] (WOC, Dancer)
•Mrs Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell by Margot Peters [Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner] (🎭)
•Elizabeth Taylor by Grace May Carter [Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor] (🎥)
•Shirley Temple: American Princess by Anne Edwards [Shirley Jane Temple Black] (Former Ambassador to Ghana, 🎥)
•Mère Teresa by Kathryn Spink [Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu] (WOC, Saint)
•Valentina Tereshkova, The First Lady of Space: In Her Own Words by Valentina Tereshkova [Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova] (Engineer, 👩🚀)
•The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nellie Ternan of Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin [Ellen Lawless Ternan] (🎭)
•Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle Wald [Rosetta Nubin] (WOC,🎙)
•Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy who Changed the Course of World War II by Mary S. Lovell [Amy Elizabeth Thorpe] (Spy)
•Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards [Countess Sophia Andreyevna Behrs Tolstaya] (Diarist)
•Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd by Michelle Morgan [Thelma Alice Todd] (📽)
•Bess Wallace Truman: Harry's White House "Boss" by Sara L. Sale [Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman]
•Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter [Isabella Baumfree, "Sojourner Truth"] (WOC, Activist)
•The Myth of "Bloody Mary": A Biography of Queen Mary I of England by Linda Porter [Mary Tudor] (👑)
•Margaret Tudor: The Life of Henry VIII's Sister by Melanie Clegg [Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland] (👑)
•The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbebe by Nwando Achebe [Ahebi Ugbebe] (👑)
•Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird [Alexandrina Victoria] (👑)
•Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel by Lisa Immordino Vreeland [Diana Vreeland] (👗)
•Lillian Wald: A Biography by Marjorie N. Feld [Lillian Wald] (Activist, SSA, 🩺)
•Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond by Dale L. Walker 🧔 [Mary Edwards Walker] (Activist, 🩺)
•On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles [Sarah Breedlove Walker] (WOC, Entrepreneur )
•Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady [Martha Dandridge Custis Washington]
•Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle 🧔 [Ethel Waters] (WOC, SSA,🎙)
•She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler [May Jane West] (🎥)
•Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee [Edith Newbold Jones Wharton] (✏️)
•Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson by William Hazelgrove 🧔 [Edith Bolling Galt Wilson] (Acting President)
•Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent by Pearl Witheringtom [Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley] (Espionage Agent)
•Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern by Shirley Jennifer Lim [Wong Liu-tsong, "Anna May Wong"] (WOC, 📽)
•Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography by Suzanne Finstad [Natalie Zacharenko] (🎥)
•Notorious Victoria: The Uncensored Life of Victoria Woodhull - Visionary, Suffragist, and First Woman to Run for President by Mary Gabriel [Victoria California Clafin Woodhull Martin] (Activist, ✏️)
•Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen by Arlene Naylor Okerlund [Elizabeth Woodville] (👑)
•Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee [Adeline Virginia Stephan Woolf] (SSA, ✏️)
•Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman by Cathryn J. Prince [Fanny Bullock Workman] (Activist, Geographer)
•Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research by Tsai-Chien Chiang 🧔(?) [Chien-Shiung Wu] (WOC, Physicist)
•Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir [Elizabeth of York] (👑)
•Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen by Patricia Southern [Septimia Zenobia] (WOC, 👑)
•Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn by Joseph Agonito 🧔 and Rosemary Agonito [Buffalo Calf Road Woman] (WOC, Warrior)
•The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold [Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly]
•Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach [Tituba, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Procter, Bridget Bishop, Ann Putnam, Rebecca Nurse]
