Best Books 2024: Women’s History

Posted on January 24, 2025

by Melissa L

2024 was an amazing year for books on women’s history. With women’s stories becoming more vital than ever, the authors of these eleven Best of 2024 titles rewrote the narrative to include women’s voices with topics ranging from the ancient world to our economies, healthcare, and the history of feminism and feminists.

Dig antiquity? Read Daisy Dunn’s The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It. Surfing the waves of the women’s movement? See Susannah Gibson’s The Bluestockings, Black Women Taught Us by Jenn M. Jackson, and The Movement by Clara Bingham. Feeling global? Read Marjane Satrapi’s collection of graphic-novel-style essays on the Iranian women’s uprising, Woman, Life, Freedom.

Biography fan? Read Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein. Music’s your jam? See How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music. Bummed out by your paycheck? Read Women Money Power by Josie Cox. Looking for a read in the doctor’s waiting room? See All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen and Undue Burden by Shefali Luthra.

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement

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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

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Woman, Life, Freedom

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Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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