International Women's Day 2018 in Lewisham Libraries

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To celebrate International Women’s Day, which will be on the 8th March 2018, we have put together a giant reading list of fiction and non fiction books for children and adults.
Which ones have you already read?
 
 
 

Non Fiction

A selection of true life stories written by women   Overdrive
  1.  A lab of one's own: science and suffrage in the First World War - Patricia Fara
  2.  Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice Duer Miller
  3.  Bad girls: a history of rebels and renegades – Caitlin Davies
  4.  Blood and guts in high School – Kathy Acker
  5.  Broad strokes: 15 women who made art and made history (in that order) – Bridget Quinn
  6. Daring to drive: a Saudi woman’s awakening – Manal Sharif
  7. Everywoman: one woman's truth about speaking the truth- Jess Phillips
  8. A good time to be a girl: how to succeed in a changing time - Helena Morrissey
  9. The gender agenda: a first-hand account of how girls and boys are treated differently – Ros Ball
  10. Hearts and minds: suffragists, suffragettes and how women won the vote - Jane Robinson
  11. Of Women in the 21st Century - Shami Chakrabarti
  12. The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers – Ed. Hollis Robbins
  13.  Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives- Jill Liddington
  14.  Rise up women!: the remarkable lives of the Suffragettes Diane Atkinson
  15.  The suffragette bombers: Britain's forgotten terrorists - Webb,Simon
  16.  The suffragettes in pictures – Diane Atkinson
  17.  Women & power: a manifesto - Mary Beard
  18.  The women's suffrage movement – Molly Housego
  19.  Women and Power: The Struggle for Suffrage – Dr. Sophie Duncan
 
 

 Non Fiction

These are available through Lewisham Libraries'  Overdrive
 
 
How to Be a Woman
by Caitlin Moran, 2011.
 
 
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2017.
 
 
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , 2014.
 
 
The Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler, 2001.
 
 
Women & Power: A Manifesto
by Mary Beard, 2017.
 
 
The Suffragette :The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement
by Sylvia Pankhurst,  2015.
 
 
Suffragette:My Own Story
by Emmeline Pankhurst, 2014.
 
 
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes
by Sarah Jackson, 2014.
 
 
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr
by Lyndsey Jenkins, 2015.   
 
 
A History of Britain in 21 Women
by Jenni Murray, 2016.
 
 
Hidden Figures:The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016.
 
 
The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss: The Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story
by Tessa Dunlop Anna Bentinck, 2016.
Copies 
 
 
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf, 2013.
 
 

    Fiction

    These are available through Lewisham Libraries'  Overdrive
     
     
    When I Hit You Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
    by Meena Kandasamy, 2017.   
     
     
    I Love Dick
    by Chris Kraus, 2015.
     
     
    The Power
    by Naomi Alderman, 2016.
     
     
    4. The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories
     by Victoria Hislop,     2013.
     
     
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    by Lionel Shrive    r, 2010.
     
     
    6. All Grown Up
    by Jami Attenberg,     2017.
     
     
    7. Middlemarch
    by George Eliot, 2013.
     
     
    8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
    by Angela Carter Helen Simpson,     2012.
    Copies 
     
     
    9. Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Purple Hibiscus 
    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie    , 2014.
     

    Children’s non-fiction

    These are available through Lewisham Libraries'  Overdrive
     
     
    1.  Rosie Revere's big project book for bold engineers - Andrea Beaty 
    2. Amazing women: 101 lives to inspire you - Lucy Beevor  
    3. Suffragette - Carol Drinkwater  
    4. Women in science - Jen Green  
    5. Herstory: 50 women and girls who shook the world - Katherine Halligan  
    6. Little leaders: bold women in black history - Vashti Harrison  
    7. Code it! Create it!: ideas & inspiration for coding - Sarah Hutt  
    8. Stories of women in World War II: we can do it! - Andrew Langley  
    9.  My best friend the suffragette - Sally Morgan  
    10. Ground breaking women - Adam Murphy  
    11. Fantastically great women who changed the world - Kate Pankhurst  
    12. Fantastically great women who made history - Kate Pankhurst  
    13. Who was Joan of Arc - Pam Pollack  
    14. Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote - Sarah Ridley  
    15. Pearl Fairweather, Pirate Captain:  
    16. Teaching Children Gender Equality, Respect, Empowerment, Diversity, Leadership, Recognising Bullying - Jayneen Sanders 
    17. Stories of women in the 1960s: fighting for freedom - Cath Senker 
    18. Girls who code: learn to code and change the world - Reshma Saujani

    Children’s Fiction

    These are available through Lewisham Libraries'  Overdrive Make more noise: new stories by female writers in honour of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage   Mighty Girls in Children’s Fiction https://www.amightygirl.com/
     
     
    Ada Twist –
    By Scientist Andrea Beaty







     
     
    The princess and the suffragette 
    By Holly Webb









     
     
    Things a bright girl can do 
    By Sally Nicholls







     
     
    Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
    by Elena Favilli , 2017.

      



    Copies
     
     
    The Hunger Games Series
    By Suzanne Collins, 2009.








     
     
     

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