Reading Women’s History Month, in Ohio and beyond

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We’re bookworms at Ohio Humanities.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, here are some of our favorite books that tell women’s stories, in Ohio and beyond:

Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch

Sisters In Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

When Grandma Gatewood Took A Hike by Michelle Houts and illustrated by Erica Magnus

Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie

Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

The Daughter Of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller (Biographies for Young Readers) by Julie Rubini

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives Through The Cookbooks They Wrote by Janet Theophano

Women Talking by Miriam Toews