Looking for a meaningful way to commemorate Women’s History Month? Try diving into a woman-authored memoir from our Adult Memoirs Core Collection
Learn something new about tenacious women whose stories are already broadly familiar:
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
Or acquaint yourself with remarkable women you likely haven’t heard of:
- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Tausig
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Mortuary by Caitlin Doughty
- Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
Read women’s responses to their more traditional roles—daughter, spouse, caregiver:
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Tretheway
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
- The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
- The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
Or discover women who found themselves in pioneering roles, breaking new ground for the women who’ve followed them:
- Just Kids: From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel: A Life of Art and Friendshipby Patti Smith
- Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
Gain a new understanding of women who’ve achieved success in the public sphere:
- Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
- My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Or explore the stories of women who reveal tender truths about more private experiences:
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Just like the phenomenal women you know in your own life, these memoirists triumphed, failed, persevered, stood out, fit in, loved, fought, questioned, learned, cried, and laughed. And then, generously, crucially, they shared their experiences with us. We owe it to them—and to the women we love—to listen.
