Celebrate Women’s History Month! Log your reading and complete activities to earn badges throughout the challenge. Earn an entry into a drawing for one of our grand prizes for every badge earned.
This reading challenge is live on Beanstack from March 1, 2024 to March 31, 2024. Curious what you need to do? Sign up on Beanstack today either online or on the app!
Needs ideas about what to read? Try any of these women’s history books.
Juvenile Nonfiction
Cut!: how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation by C.E. Winters
Jovita wore pants: the story of a Mexican freedom fighter by Aida Salazar
Little Rosetta and the talking guitar: the musical story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Love is loud: how Diane Nash led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace
To boldy go: how Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek helped advance civil rights by Angela Dalton
The Van Buren Sisters vs. the pants police by Jennifer Fox
The woman in the moon: how Margaret Hamilton helped fly the first astronauts to the moon by Richard Maurer
Adult Nonfiction
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: enslaved women’s lethal resistance by Nikki Marie Taylor
The exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
Looking through the speculum: examining the women’s health movement by Judith A. Houck
The Lost Princess: women writers and the history of classic fairy tales by Anne E. Duggan
Madame Restell: the life, death, and resurrection of old New York’s most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist by Jennifer Wright
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
Proving Ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer by Kathy Kleiman
A Rome of one’s own: the forgotten women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon
The six: the untold story of America’s first women astronauts by Loren Grush
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism by Brooke Kroeger
Young queens: three Renaissance women and the price of power by Leah L. Chang