International Women’s Day reading suggestions

International Women’s Day 2024 Booklist

Adults

They Don’t Teach This by Eniola Aluko

Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates

This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad

You’re History by Lesley Chow

What Women Want: Conversations on Desire, Power, Love and Growth by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

She Speaks by Yvette Cooper

Unfair Play: The Battle for Women’s Sport by Sharron Davies

Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis

Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman

Face It by Debbie Harry

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson

How Women Can Save the Planet by Anne Karpf

Strong Female Lead by Arwa Mahdawi

Women in Design by Anne Massey

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong by Angela Saini

The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart

Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent

What It Takes by Sarina Wiegman

Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson

Strong Women by Suzanne Wrack

Teenage

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Speak Up!: Use Your Voice to Change the World by Laura Coryton

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

What You Never Knew About Taylor Swift by Mandy R. Marx

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani

This Book is Feminist by Jamia Wilson   

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai

Children

Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker

She Shoots, She Scores! by Catriona Clarke

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison

The Extraordinary Life of Serena Williams by Shelina Janmohamed

The Extraordinary Life of Greta Thunberg by Devika Jina

Stories for South Asian Supergirls by Kaur Raj Khaira

The A-Z of Wonder Women by Yvonne Lin

The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions & Designs by Women by Owen O’Doherty

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst

Fantastically Great Women Scientists and their Stories by Kate Pankhurst

Rosa Parks by Claire Smith

Ada Lovelace by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Kamala Harris (Little People, Big Dreams) by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Malala Yousafzai (Little People, Big Dreams) by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai