Reading Women Challenge 2020 - hosted by thereadingwomen

A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
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Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Hannah Ross

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction sports informative inspiring slow-paced
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Claire Harman

462 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-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

22 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum

464 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction education psychology race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo by Clea Koff

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Clea Koff

304 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

400 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Without Apology: Old Lesbian Life Stories by Margaret Purcell, Arden Eversmeyer

Without Apology: Old Lesbian Life Stories

Margaret Purcell, Arden Eversmeyer

missing page info • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative medium-paced
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Rachel Hope Cleves

296 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ hopeful informative slow-paced
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

Голоса утопии #3

Svetlana Alexievich

224 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World

Clare Wright

432 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative slow-paced