International Women’s Day reading suggestions
International Women’s Day is on Sunday 8 March 2026.
This year's campaign theme is Give to Gain.
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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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