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Books about Women and History and Politics


Africa

The House on Sugar Beach (2009), Helene Cooper

Cleopatra:  A Life (2010), Stacy Schiff 

West With the Night (1982), Beryl Markham

King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
 (2012).  New York: Knopf Publishing

A House in the Sky (2014), Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett

The Woman Who Would Be King (2014) Kara Cooney

However Long the Night:  Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and girls Triumph (2013) Aimee Molloy

Chasing Chaos.  (2013).  Jessica Alexander.  

Find Me Unafraid. (2015).  Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odele.

Madame President:  The Extraordinary Life of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  (2017). Helene Cooper

Beneath the Tamarind Tree.  (2019). Isha Sesay.

Asia

Pearl Buck in China:  Journey to the Good Earth (2010), Hilary Spurling

Falling Leaves:  The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (1999), Adeline Yen

Wild Swans:  Three Daughters of China (1991), Jung Chang

Red Azalea (1994), Anchee Min

Serve the People (2008), Jen Lin-Liu

Foreign Babes in Bejing (2006), Rachel DeWoskin

The Lady and the Peacock:  The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi.  (2011).  Peter Popham

The Girl With Seven Names.  (2015). Hyeonseo Lee.


Europe

Marie Antoinette:  The Journey (2001), Antonia Fraser

Suite Francaise (2006), Irene Nemirovsky

Hiding in Plain Sight (2004), Betty Lauer

The Bolter (2008), Frances Osborne

Catherine the Great:  Portrait of a Woman (2011), Robert Massie

The Sisters:  The Saga of the MItford Family, (2003) Mary Lovell,

Testament of Youth, (2005 reissued) Vera Britain.

Eleni, (1983) Nicholas Gage

The Romanov Sisters:  The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, (2014), Helen Rappaport

A World Elsewhere:  An American Woman in Wartime Germany, (2014).  Sigrid MacRae.

Spy Mistress. (2011).  William Stevenson.

Isabella:  The Warrior Queen. (2014). Kristen Downey.

40 Autumns:  
A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall. (2016). Nina Willner

Empress of the East. (2017).  Leslie Peirce.

Victoria's Daughters. (1999). Jerrold Packard.


Wolves at the Door.  (2014). Judith Pearson.

Madame Fourcades Secret War.  (2019).  Lynne Olson.

A Game of Birds and Wolves. (2020). Simon Parker.

The Light of Days. (2021). Judy Batalion.
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MIddle East

The Desert Queen:  The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell; Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawerence of Arabia (2005), Janet Wallach

Leap of Faith:  Memoirs of an Unexpected LIfe (2003), Queen Noor

Not Without My Daughter (1987), Betty Mahmoody

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), Azar Nafisi

Kabul Beauty School (2007), Deborah Rodriquez

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. (2011).  Gayle Lemmons

Infidel. (2007),  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the Skin of a Jihadist:  A Young Journalist Enters the ISIS Recruit (2015). Anna Erelle

An Improbable Friendship (2015) Anthony David

The Taliban Shuffle (2010) Kim Barker

The Wind in My Hair. (2018).  Masih Alinejad.

Passionate Nomad. (2001) Jane Geniesse.

Life Undercover.  (2019).  Amaryliss Fox.


United States

Nothing Daunted:  The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (2011), Dorothy Wickendon

The Company We Keep:  A Husband and Wife True-Life Spy Story (2011), Dayna Baer and Robert Baer

When Everything Changed:  The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present (2009), Gail Collins

All Bones Be White (2011), Judith Yates Shearer

OutCasts United (2009), Warren St. John

Founding Mothers (2004), Cokie Roberts

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (2008), Elinore Stewart

Cast No Shadow (1992), Mary Lovell

The Red Leather Diary:  Reclaiming a life through the pages of a lost journal (2008), Lily Koppel

And His Lovely Wife:  A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man (2007), Connie Schultz

The Girl I Left Behind:  A Narrative History of the Sixties (2008), Judith Nies

Rebecca's Revival:  Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005), Jon Sensbach

My Beloved World (2013), Sonia Sotomayor

The Astronauts' Wives Club (2013), Lily Kopel

The Girls of Atomic City (2013). Denise Kiern

Ada Blackfoot:  A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (2003), Jennifer Niven

Book of Ages:  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (2013), Jill Lepore

Rage to Fame:  the Ascent of Clare Booth Luce (1997), Sylvia Jukes Morris

Hearts West:  True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier (2005), Chris Enss

Alice:  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. (2007).  Stacy Cordery.

Sisters in Law (2015). Linda Hirshman


Edith Kermit Roosevelt:  Portrait of a First Lady. (1980).  Sylvia Morris.

My Life on the Road (2015).  Gloria Steinhem.

Read My Pins: Stories from  A Diplomat's Jewel Box.
(2009). Madeline Albright

Shoot Like a Girl (2017). Mary Jennings Hegar.

The Firebrand and the First Lady. (2016).  Patricia Bell-Scott

Unbelievable:  My Front Row Seat on the Craziest Campaign in America. (2017). Katy Tur.

Chasing Hillary. (2018). Amy Chozick.

Ashley's War. (2015). Gayle Lemmon.

My Year With Eleanor. (2011).  Noelle Hancock.

Haven. (2010).  Ruth Gruber.

From the Corner of the Oval. ​(2018).  Beck Dorey Stein

Becoming. (2018). Michelle Obama.

Fly Girls. (2018). Keith O'Brien.

The Education of an Idealist.  (2019). Samantha Power.

Eliza Hamilton.  (2018). Tilar Mazzeo

The Genius of Women. (2019). Janice Kaplan.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes.  (2018).  Jason Fagone

Tough Love. (2020). Susan Rice
 
Cokie: A life Well Lived. (2021). Steven Roberts

On All Fronts. (2021). Clarissa Ward.