Let’s take a breath and read about some of the powerful women that helped to make this world a better place.
GPL librarians have collaborated to create a wonderfully curated collection of some of the best current fiction and nonfiction written by and about women. We’ve given you a snapshot of our list below, but provided you with a number of downloadable reading lists that you might also enjoy.
This is an update of a rather quirky previous collection, which was entitled “Let’s read about powerful women.”
Here’s the full list of our staff selections for 2022.
Our hope is you just log in, put your books on hold, wait for them to arrive, and we’ll get them ready for you.
Fiction
The Cater Street Hangman: a novel / Anne Perry.
Love letters: a novel / Katie Fforde.
Meet me at the museum / Anne Youngson.
Murder on Astor Place / Victoria Thompson.
The other Black girl / Zakiya Dalila Harris.
**The rose code: a novel / Kate Quinn.
**This book might be the pick of this list, as it has often been a staff favorite and is often recommended.
Nonfiction
All that she carried: the journey of Ashley’s sack, a black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.
My own words / Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett with Wendy W. Williams.
The secret history of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore.
Somebody’s daughter: a memoir / Ashley C. Ford.
Spinster: making a life of one’s own / Kate Bolick.
Under a white sky: the nature of the future / Elizabeth Kolbert.
**I’d highlight this book for your consideration. I’ve read a portion of this one, which is that rare history that reads like a novel and given the world situation seems a timely pick.
Not seeing any that strike your eye?
Here are some longer lists for you to consider.
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Happy Reading,
Jeremiah
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