Celebrating Women - Memoirs

Celebrating Women

MEMOIRS

Two backpacks and a stuffed toy mouse.

Class: a Memoir by Stephanie Land

Within the tip of a pencil, a woman stands on a mountaintop.

Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover

Young woman wearing a hijab.

I Am Malala: the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Photograph of children on an outdoor playset.

Men We Reaped: a Memoir by Jesmyn Ward

Flowers artistically arranged like a uterus.

Ask Me About My Uterus: a Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

Bold capital text over multi-colored stripes.

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: a Memoir by Sarah Ramey

Blurry image of a woman standing serenely in an ethereal void.

Not Fade Away: a Memoir of Senses Lost and Found by Rebecca Alexander

Clouds and a single bird cross a bright blue sky.

Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice by Katherine Preston

Empty, overturned bottle of wine.

Quitter: a Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery by Erica C. Barnett

Woman stands in front of wine glasses and jarred ingredients.

Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

Woman half-buried in a backdrop of apples.

Dear Scarlet: the Story of My Postpartum Depression by Teresa Wong

Title haphazardly repeats and overlaps in different fonts.

So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth by Aracelis Girmay

Raging forest fire.

Both Sides of the Fire Line: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter by Bobbie Scopa

Cross-legged woman has her head thrown back in laughter.

Crossing: a Transgender Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey

Youth wading in water gazes at their reflection.

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Photograph of a child wearing a cowboy costume.

Mean Little Deaf Queer: a Memoir by Terry Galloway

Assertive woman with a pixie cut rests her chin on her hand.

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards

Smiling, distinguished Puerto-Rican woman.

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Photographs, possibly mugshots, of a somber woman.

Outlaw Woman: a Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Sheltered by an umbrella, a woman speaks into a microphone at a public event.

That Woman: the Making of a Texas Feminist by Nikki Van Hightower

Cartoons of a novelty disguise, pumpkin, pizza slice, open book, women's protest beanie, and Donald Trump.

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge

Heart-shaped arrangement of vines and berries is partially scattered.

Heart Berries: a Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

Native American woman raises a feather in the air.

Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

Abstract designs fluctuating in color and direction.

We Who Walk the Seven Ways: a Memoir by Terra Trevor

Photograph of a downcast girl reluctantly holding a woman's hand.

First Gen: a Memoir by Alejandra Campoverdi

Lower half of a woman's face framed by long, dark hair.

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

Adolescent girl sits against a wall on a cobblestone street.

Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg

Window in an artist's studio overlooks a verdant backyard.

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know by Chachi D. Hauser

Unpopulated public pool.

Designated Fat Girl: a Memoir by Jennifer Joyner

Self-possessed woman with tattoos and vibrant curled hair.

How Poetry Saved My Life: a Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn

Wind blows through the hair of a woman standing in a desolate landscape.

Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

Layers of the title are out of alignment.

Shift: a Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions by Penny Guisinger

Photograph of a residential street bathed in police lights.

Behind Her Badge: a Woman's Journey Into and Out of Law Enforcement by Ann Marie Dennis

Professional referee holds up her hand on the field.

Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man's World by Shannon Eastin

Woman stands outside the gates of the White House.

Trailblazer: the Story of the First Black Female Secret Service Agent to Protect the President and Her Fight for Justice by Cheryl Tyler

Woman with a subdued smile wears a hat over her long hair and bangs.

A Woman in Engineering: Memoirs of a Trailblazer by Monique Frize

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