Quest: Strong Women

Historically, society has not been equally inclusive of women. Countless stories from all across the world demonstrate injustice, inequality and missed opportunities. But to that feminine figure, that powerful bringer of life, brilliant mother of ideas, hardest of workers, resilient fighter and pillar of civilization, to that figure we say this: You are not alone. It is time to make things right, empower women and grasp the strength humanity has always had in its reach.

Add nonfiction books you've read that talk about women empowerment or discuss gender inequalities.

3 occurrences

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

Anthropology & SociologyPoliticsEconomics

432 PagesMarch 2019

Read by 7 people

3 occurrences

I'm Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

Memoir & AutobiographyHealth & Wellness

320 PagesAugust 2022

Read by 20 people

2 occurrences

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Memoir & AutobiographyAdventureNature

February 2022

Read by 2 people

2 occurrences

Educated

by Tara Westover

Memoir & AutobiographyEducationalReligion & Spirituality

368 PagesFebruary 2018

Read by 13 people

2 occurrences

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

EssaysPolitics

267 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 3 people

2 occurrences

Queer Intentions: A (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture

by Amelia Abraham

Memoir & AutobiographyPoliticsGender & Sexuality

9h 26m May 2019

Read by 3 people

2 occurrences

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore

BiographyScienceHistory

477 PagesJune 2016

Read by 9 people

1 occurrence

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

by Abigail Dillen, Adrienne Maree Brown, Camille T. Dungy, More...

ScienceEssaysNature

432 PagesSeptember 2020

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Women, Race, & Class

by Angela Y. Davis

PhilosophyHistoryPolitics

288 PagesJanuary 1981

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

by Rebecca Traister

EssaysHistoryPolitics

320 PagesOctober 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America's Greatest Women Journalists

by Patsy Sims

November 2017

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

by Elizabeth Flock

HistoryTrue CrimeMystery

304 PagesJanuary 2024

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

by Julia Serano

Memoir & AutobiographyPolitics

May 2007

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

by Kirsten Holmstedt

Military FictionMemoir & Autobiography

388 Pages2007

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

by Scaachi Koul

EssaysHumorMemoir & Autobiography

January 2017

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

by Diane Atkinson

BiographyHistoryPolitics

688 PagesApril 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

by Ruby Hamad

HistoryPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

September 2019

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Fix the System, Not the Women

by Laura Bates

Politics

196 Pages

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Contemporary FictionLiterary FictionHistorical Fiction

June 2025

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted Ame...

by Jason Fagone

ScienceMemoir & AutobiographyHistory

464 PagesSeptember 2017

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

by Donna Zuckerberg

PhilosophyHistoryPolitics

288 PagesOctober 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

by Joanne Limburg

EssaysMemoir & Autobiography

272 PagesJuly 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha

by Lesley Downer

Nonfiction

288 Pages2000

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Rose Code

by Kate Quinn

MysteryHistorical Fiction

624 PagesMarch 2021

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

by Rebecca Alexandra Simon

History

256 PagesJune 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Moterys

by Kristin Hannah

Historical Fiction

496 PagesFebruary 2024

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War T O th...

by Jasmine Brown

HistoryMedicineBiography

224 PagesJanuary 2023

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror

by K.P. Kulski, Yi Izzy Yu

EssaysHorror

300 PagesFebruary 2023

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

Historical Fiction

715 PagesJune 2017

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

A White House Diary

by Lady Bird Johnson

Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

806 Pages1970

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

by Elinor Cleghorn

ScienceMedicineHistory

352 PagesJune 2021

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Dea...

by Erin Gibson

EssaysHumorMemoir & Autobiography

September 2018

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

Nonfiction

288 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

by Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti

Nonfiction

336 PagesJanuary 2020

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

EssaysPolitics

256 PagesJune 1984

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

by Natalie Haynes

MythologyHistorical FictionFantasy

308 PagesJanuary 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

A Room of Ones Own

by Virginia Woolf

EssaysPhilosophy

120 PagesOctober 1928

Read by 6 people

1 occurrence

Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women

by Helena Kennedy

Nonfiction

352 PagesDecember 2019

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth

EconomicsPolitics

320 PagesApril 2017

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

EssaysPolitics

January 2012

Read by 9 people

1 occurrence

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction

80 PagesMarch 2017

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

HistoryAnthropology & SociologySelf-Help

256 PagesApril 2023

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Girls Don't Play Sport: The game-changing, defiant rise of women's sport, and why it matters

Sports

240 PagesAugust 2023

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Power of Women: Why gender equality works for everyone

by June Sarpong

Nonfiction

176 PagesJune 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

by Anushay Hossain

ScienceMedicineHealth & Wellness

October 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

by Valena E. Beety

MysteryPoliticsTrue Crime

320 PagesMay 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins--Social Security, Unemployment...

by Kirstin Downey

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

496 Pages2009

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

by Janina Ramírez

History

July 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

Contemporary Classics - The Feminist Press

Historical FictionParanormalMedicine

112 PagesNovember 1972

100

Read by 1 person