International Women’s Day reading suggestions

International Women’s Day 2026 Booklist

Adult Fiction

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Names by Florence Knapp

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yellowface by RF Kuang

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

By Your Side by Ruth Jones

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Adult Non-fiction

My Dear Kabul: A year in the life of an Afghan women’s writing group

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

It’s Probably Nothing by Naga Munchetty

Lady Doctors by Kavitha Rao

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern

Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci

The Mental Load by Emma

Queens at War by Alison Weir

Legenda by Janina Ramirez

Women in Intelligence by Helen Fry

A Hymn to Life by Gisele Pelicot

A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch

A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley

The Walnut Tree by Kate Morgan

The Furies by Elizabeth flock

They Don’t Teach This by Eniola Aluko

Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates

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

Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart

Strong Women by Suzanne Wrack

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Young Adults

Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais

Wearing My Mother’s Heart by Sophia Thakur

Becoming: adapted for younger readers by Michelle Obama

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

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

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Children

Girls Solve Everything by Catherine Thimmesh

Three Little Vikings by Bethan Woollvin

Rebel Girls Stem Stars by Anita Vandyke

Rebel Girls Build the Future foreward by Rachel Cross

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

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

Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai

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