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.
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.
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.