26 must-read nonfiction books like Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

By: Susan Ware

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. Let Me Go

By: Helga Schneider

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that "won’t let … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al…"

-Helga Schneider, Let Me Go

"Durante una pausa en las intervenciones, se me acercó una mujer, superviviente de Birkenau. Me miró fijamente a los ojos y luego explotó a quemarropa: —¡La odio! Por un instante me quedé sin habla. —…"

-Helga Schneider, Let Me Go

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2. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A companion volume to The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, the journals are here published in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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3. Keith, A: Three Came Home

By: Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you."

-Agnes Newton Keith, Keith, A: Three Came Home

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4. Maria

By: Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The author records her experiences training to become a nun and answering God's call by caring for … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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5. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Mimi Alford

3.58

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

In '62, Mimi Beardsley was a naive teen, a product of her class & time. She'd attended the same exc… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town

By: Jennifer Niven

3.16

Format: 288 pages,

For anyone who has ever endured the insufferable pain, the soaring excitement, and the relentless s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. The Zookeeper's Daughter

By: Lori Space Day

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The Zookeeperas Daughter is the journal of Lori Space Day, a third generation zoologist. Growing up… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By: Koren Zailckas

4.00

Format: None pages,

For use in schools and libraries only. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas' story is t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. The Concubine's Children

By: Denise Chong

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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10. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

By: Maya Angelou

4.00

Format: 199 pages,

When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to widespread acclaim in 1969, Maya Angelou garn… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

By: Lilly Ledbetter , Lanier Scott Isom

3.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

By: Paula Fox

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

By: Martha Manning

3.97

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

This is the memoir of an ordinary woman—a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife—who tells the … read more

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  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it i…"

-Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

14. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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15. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

By: Gail Collins

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

A landmark work of history telling the story of more than four centuries of history featuring a stu… read more

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16. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

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"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

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17. The Polymorph

By: Max Nowaz

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more

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"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

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18. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

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20. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

By: Yeonmi Park

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

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"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

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22. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

By: Nina Totenberg

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal succes… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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23. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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24. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

By: Christopher C. Gorham

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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25. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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26. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By: Melinda French Gates

4.28

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

A debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary … read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"When it’s “he said/she said,"

-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings."

-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

"…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created."

-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

"It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men."

-Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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27. Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House

By: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller: A candid, riv… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Why didn't somebody say anything?"

-Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House

"I didn't always know who leaked which story, but had my suspicions, and in a many cases the motivations of the leakers were clear and their identities obvious."

-Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House

"You shouldn't be able to tell what a reporter's point of view is. Their reporting should give the facts, not their opinions, and let you decide. We have lost this in journalism today."

-Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House

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28. Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power

By: Susan Page

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her best—and a series of in-depth,… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

3.23

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Pelosi

By: Molly Ball

4.15

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting inside account of the unprecedented rise to power and unmatch… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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31. Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

By: Susan Ware

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook

8 must-read womens books like Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

Transform Your Habits

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Martha Manning

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Nina Totenberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

Christopher C. Gorham

4.32

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Yeonmi Park

3.99

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Rage

Bob Woodward

4.17

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I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

Stephanie Grisham

3.48

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Mary L. Trump

3.82

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