The beloved Women’s History Month during March used to be just Women’s History Week. Either way, the purpose of both is to celebrate women and their history, especially because of all the patriarchal prejudices that have occurred throughout history. Whether you consider yourself a reader or not, here are some books that are worth your time and offer some more insight during this month.
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
If the film adaptation of this 2016 award-winning book of nonfiction chronicling the real-life story of NASA’s Black women mathematicians gave you goosebumps, wait until you read Shetterly’s inspiring words. Battling racism and sex discrimination from WWII through the Cold War, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden were key figures in America’s space program, and learning their story and struggles is a must for women everywhere.
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is a classic that everyone should visit in their lives. This 1868 coming-of-age novel of the memorable four March sisters — pretty-yet-vain Meg, bold tomboy Jo, quiet and shy Beth and spoiled, artistic youngest Amy — is about post-Civil War family life, love and all the struggles that come from growing from girlhood to womanhood. 
- My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hailed as a champion of women’s rights, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away in 2020, but her opinions on everything from gender equality to the inner workings of the nation’s highest court to her love of opera live on this 2018 collection of writings from the feminist icon.
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4. Circe by Madeline Miller
The 2018 bestseller offers an epic feminist adaptation of the story of the goddess Circe — the misfit daughter of Helios, god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid nymph — whose powerful sorcery leads to banishment. Over thousands of years, Circe crosses paths with a wide cast of characters: the Minotaur, Medea, Jason and other mortals, including Odysseus, with whom she falls in love and has a child. In the end, will she choose to live among mortals or gods? If you’re looking for female empowerment, Greek mythology style, you’ve found it.
5. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister
Traister explores the current atmosphere of female rage, putting the #MeToo movement, the Women’s March, and other manifestations of this anger into historical context. Woven in with histories of suffragette, abolitionist, and other women-led rights movements are reflections on the current mood and the nature of emotions long-considered “unfeminine.”
