Wednesday 2 March 2022

Women's History Month

Did you know that March is Women's History Month in the UK?

To celebrate, the GCH Library team have put together a broad reading list including both fiction and non-fiction books for everyone to enjoy. 


Fiction

Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nicholls

The silence of the girls by Pat Barker

The hate u give by Angie Thomas

Mad, bad and dangerous to know by Samira Ahmed

Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

I, Ada by Julia Gray

Small island by Andrea Levy


C
lassics

A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

Little women by Louisa May Alcott



Non-fiction 

Medieval women by Henrietta Leyser 

Don't touch my hair by Emma Dabiri 

Warrior queens by Antonia Fraser

Women of the cousin's war by Phillipa Gregory 

Wild by Cheryl Strayed 

We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



Biography

The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin 

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb 

The invisible woman: the story of Nellie Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin

Becoming by Michelle Obama 



Graphic Novels

Lumberjanes (series) by Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Baby-sitters Club (series) by Raina Telgemeier 

Ms. Marvel by Willow Wilson

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 

Sally Heathcoate: Suffragette by Mary M Talbot 



All titles listed are available to borrow from GCH Library. Check out our Women's History Month displays in St Andrew's and St Michael's Libraries too for more recommendations!




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