Women’s History Month is HERE (PAAARRTTTTTAAYYY!), and if we are being honest, she never left. Women’s History Month is every month. Women are too brilliant, too dynamic, too incredible. . .(I could go on forever), to be confined into one month. Although we appreciate our month, every single day we we should acknowledge the women who paved a way and are paving a way. We can carry the women of the past and present, who impact the future, in our pocket, phone, or purse, and live out Women’s History every day. How? With a good old-fashioned book! Below is a compiled list of must-reads by female authors and from various genres. You can keep this BIG Women’s History Month energy going even after March! We hope these gems inspire, motivate, encourage, and elevate you.

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

-Annie Dillard

“Becoming” by Michelle Obama (Memoir)

“Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly (Biography)

“I Am Malala” by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai (Memoir)

“Educated” by Tara Westover (Memoir)

“Freedom is an inside job” by Zainab Salbi (Self-help book)

“the sun and her flowers” by Rupi Kaur (Poetry)

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou (Autobiography/ Biography)

“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas (Fiction)

“Period Power” by Nadya Okamoto (Manifesto)

“the witch doesn’t burn in this one” by Amanda Lovelace (Poetry)