8 best-selling biography books like The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan

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The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

By: Janice Kaplan

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses ar…

If you liked the biography plot in The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743

By: Kristiana Gregory

3.33

Format: None pages,

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  • historical
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2. The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)

By: Mary Stewart

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted b… read more

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  • historical
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3. Digging to America

By: Anne Tyler

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about w… read more

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4. Love Letters of Great Men

By: John C. Kirkland

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love … read more

Similar categories in John C. Kirkland's Love Letters of Great Men book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Mother-Daughter Book Club

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

4.05

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy i… read more

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  • audiobook
"I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, …"

-Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club

6. Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932

By: Kathryn Lasky

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the age of twelve, Minnie Swift is living through one of the toughest times in America's history… read more

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7. Startup

By: Doree Shafrir

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that… read more

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8. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

By: Betty Dodson , Inga Muscio

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

An ancient title of respect for women, the word cunt long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Musc… read more

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9. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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10. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

Similar categories in Adam M. Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

Cover of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

12. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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13. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • historical
  • audiobook
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14. Slučaj vlastite pogibelji

By: Kristian Novak

4.54

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

„Pravda se tiče svakoga, ili nije pravda. Ako se slučaj pogibelji pravednoga tiče samo njega, s nji… read more

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"Sve svoje odluke, sve bitne, donijela sam iz jedinog razloga da su slučajno ne zakompliciram život. Ništa rizik, ništa vizija, samo drž' se onoga što imaš, kmetski. Tako sam odgojena: mi slabi, mi iz…"

-Kristian Novak, Slučaj vlastite pogibelji

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15. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

Similar categories in Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

By: Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Format: 244 pages, ebook

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more

Similar categories in Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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17. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

By: Ron Lieber

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more

Similar categories in Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)

By: Helen Knott

4.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more

Similar categories in Helen Knott's In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11) book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Some Kids I Taught & What They Taught Me

By: Kate Clanchy

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invite… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clanchy's Some Kids I Taught & What They Taught Me book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

By: Katy Weitz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World

By: Sarah Wilson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and prec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal

22. Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

By: Frans de Waal

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with… read more

Similar categories in Frans de Waal's Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy"

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Nuestros sentimientos de felicidad dependen de la comparación entre los ingresos propios y los ajenos."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Al ser parte del tejido de la naturaleza, constantemente sopesamos nuestros intereses con los de otros organismos, casi siempre a favor de los nuestros."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

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23. A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré

By: John Le Carré

4.15

Format: 1088 pages, Paperback

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thou… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman

24. Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

By: Eleanor Herman

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of  Sex with Kings  and  Sex with Presidents,  re… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Herman's Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Another method to identify misogyny is to picture a well-known politician as belonging to the opposite sex and see where that takes you. For instance, imagine Donald Trump as a woman. Let's call her …"

-Eleanor Herman, Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

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25. Solze, ki jih ni

By: Mojca Rudolf

4.35

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Kasneje je razmišljala, da so bile to morda slutnje. Slutnje o tem, kar se je nekaj ur kasneje zg… read more

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Cover of This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray

26. This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

By: Matthew Fray

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful, down-to-earth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationship-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

27. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

By: Gemma Hartley

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fe… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe by Aomawa Shields

28. Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

By: Aomawa Shields

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother… read more

Similar categories in Aomawa Shields's Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith

29. A Short History of the World in 50 Books

By: Daniel Smith

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sha… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan

30. The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

By: Janice Kaplan

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses ar… read more

Similar categories in Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World book and Janice Kaplan's The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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31. Paris (Extended Edition): The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.28

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

None read more

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  • audiobook

6 best-selling womens books like The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Eleanor Herman

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

Gemma Hartley

3.71

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9 best-selling womens books like Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

Transform Your Habits

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

Eve Rodsky

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Soraya Chemaly

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

Minna Dubin

3.83

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