5 Top history books like Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman

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Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By: Cathy Newman

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ Caitlin Moran A fresh, opinionated h…

"Increasing openness about sex wasn’t the same as increasing openness about how it was used by the powerful to oppress the weak."

-Cathy Newman, Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

"Increasing openness about sex wasn’t the same as increasing openness about how it was used by the powerful to oppress the weak."

-Cathy Newman, Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

If you liked the history plot in Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Nasty Women by 404 Ink, L.R.  Lam, Ren Aldridge, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Sasha De Buyl-Pisco, Elise Hines, Alice Tarbuck, Jonatha Kottler, Chitra Ramaswamy, Christina Neuwirth, Belle Owen, Zeba Talkhani, Kate Muriel, None, Kaite Welsh, Claire L. Heuchan, Jen Mcgregor, Mel Reeve, Sim Bajwa, Becca Inglis, Rowan C. Clarke, Kristy Diaz, Laura  Jones

1. Nasty Women

By: 404 Ink , L.R. Lam , Ren Aldridge , Nadine Aisha Jassat , Sasha De Buyl-Pisco , Elise Hines , Alice Tarbuck , Jonatha Kottler , Chitra Ramaswamy , Christina Neuwirth , Belle Owen , Zeba Talkhani , Kate Muriel , None , Kaite Welsh , Claire L. Heuchan , Jen Mcgregor , Mel Reeve , Sim Bajwa , Becca Inglis , Rowan C. Clarke , Kristy Diaz , Laura Jones

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever f… read more

Similar categories in 404 Ink's Nasty Women book and Cathy Newman's Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #4) by Enid Blyton

2. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #4)

By: Enid Blyton

4.12

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

The girls are in a higher form now. This year there is the tension of exams for the first time, but… read more

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3. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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5. Eye For An Eye

By: M.J. Arlidge

4.09

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

RIGHT OR WRONG? Only nine criminals in the UK have been granted lifelong anonymity. Their crimes … read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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7. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

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  • feminism
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10. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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  • historical
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald

11. No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

By: Jess McDonald

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1)

By: Simon Mason

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classe… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Don't Look Back

By: Jo Spain

3.91

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, unforgettable new thriller from Jo Spain For one week, everything in Luke Miller'… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Telephone Box Library (Little Maudley, #1) by Rachael Lucas

15. The Telephone Box Library (Little Maudley, #1)

By: Rachael Lucas

4.14

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

Books. Wine. Secrets. You'll find them all at The Telephone Box Library, an uplifting story about f… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Infamous

By: Lex Croucher

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everythi… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"Oh,"

-Lex Croucher, Infamous

Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

17. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

By: Daisy May Cooper

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Sex Power Money

By: Sara Pascoe

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Part comedy, part anthropological study, here is everything Sara Pascoe has learned from scientists… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. You Could Be So Pretty

By: Holly Bourne

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A dystopian YA novel with a shocking twist, You Could Be So Pretty is The Beauty Myth for teenagers… read more

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  • feminism
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20. A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By: Jenni Murray

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

They led while others followed. They stood up and spoke out when no one else would. They broke the … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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21. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Queen K by Sarah    Thomas

22. Queen K

By: Sarah Thomas

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On a balmy evening in late March, Kata hosts a party on her husband's superyacht. Tables cover the … read more

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23. Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By: Cathy Newman

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ Caitlin Moran A fresh, opinionated h… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Newman's Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention book and Cathy Newman's Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Increasing openness about sex wasn’t the same as increasing openness about how it was used by the powerful to oppress the weak."

-Cathy Newman, Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

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24. That Peckham Boy

By: Kenny Imafidon

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  Poverty Safari  and  Skint Estate ,  That Peckham Boy  is a reallife manifesto calling… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Ghosts From the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

By: Tony Medawar

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of t… read more

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  • audiobook
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26. Precious You

By: Helen Monks Takhar

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this deb… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Lucky: Learning to live again by Louise Thompson

27. Lucky: Learning to live again

By: Louise Thompson

4.39

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you learn to live again when you've danced with death?Louise’s road to having a baby was far… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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28. Love Story

By: Lindsey Kelk

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

She’s a small-town schoolteacher. He’s a hotshot marketing director. Together, it’s hate at… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker

By: Lauren James

3.63

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

“Congratulations, new kid. Welcome to the afterlife.” What if death is only the beginning? Wh… read more

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30. Her Second Husband

By: Jane E. James

3.45

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Your husband’s dead. He’s never coming back. So why is he on a dating site asking you to go out wit… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. From the Wizarding Archive (Volume 1): Curated Writing from the World of Harry Potter

By: J.K. Rowling

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

If you've ever wondered what happened when Vernon Dursley first met James Potter, wanted to know mo… read more

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  • audiobook

5 Best womens books like Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman

Transform Your Habits

Nasty Women

404 Ink , L.R. Lam , Ren Aldridge , Nadine Aisha Jassat , Sasha De Buyl-Pisco , Elise Hines , Alice Tarbuck , Jonatha Kottler , Chitra Ramaswamy , Christina Neuwirth , Belle Owen , Zeba Talkhani , Kate Muriel , None , Kaite Welsh , Claire L. Heuchan , Jen Mcgregor , Mel Reeve , Sim Bajwa , Becca Inglis , Rowan C. Clarke , Kristy Diaz , Laura Jones

4.14

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Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

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The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

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A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

Jenni Murray

3.83

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When She Finds You

A.J. McDine

4.00

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Should Have Known Better

A.J. McDine

4.00

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Sarah A. Denzil

3.51

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Holly Craig

3.31

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