Club Read's Recommended Nonfiction Written by Women

Descrizione
Per the lively discussion on Club Read in recent weeks, we would like to read more nonfiction written by women, but often it's not as visible. So here is a place to make your recommendations. Any nonfiction works are welcome: history, art, science, music, memoirs. The only caveat is that this is a list of recommendations, so if the book was a stinker, don't add it. Thanks!
1
The Library Book
di Susan Orlean
4,987 utenti
287 recensioni
4.1
8 Members
waitingtoderail, janoorani24, rhian_of_oz, BLBera, ahef1963, dianeham, Julie_in_the_Library, KeithChaffee
2
Educated: A Memoir
di Tara Westover
9,962 utenti
519 recensioni
½ 4.3
9 Members
dchaikin, janoorani24, RidgewayGirl, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22, BLBera, ahef1963, dianeham
Spiegazioni
labfs39: memoir
3
La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks
di Rebecca Skloot
14,787 utenti
744 recensioni
4.2
9 Members
waitingtoderail, rhian_of_oz, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22, BLBera, ahef1963, dianeham, Charon07
Spiegazioni
labfs39: medical history
4
84, Charing Cross Road
di Helene Hanff
5,896 utenti
354 recensioni
4.2
7 Members
janoorani24, rhian_of_oz, labfs39, Willoyd, japaul22, BLBera, ahef1963
Spiegazioni
labfs39: memoir, epistolary
5
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
di Michelle Alexander
5,364 utenti
140 recensioni
½ 4.4
7 Members
dchaikin, rocketjk, RidgewayGirl, arubabookwoman, japaul22, BLBera, mabith
6
Per mano nel buio
di Barbara Demick
3,229 utenti
178 recensioni
½ 4.4
7 Members
dchaikin, RidgewayGirl, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22, ahef1963, valkyrdeath
Spiegazioni
labfs39: journalism
7
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
di Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,215 utenti
122 recensioni
½ 4.5
5 Members
janoorani24, terran, japaul22, BLBera, Charon07
9
Contrattacco: la guerra non dichiarata contro le donne
di Susan Faludi
2,801 utenti
21 recensioni
4
4 Members
janoorani24, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, dianeham
10
ˆUn ‰treno per Auschwitz: una sconvolgente storia vera
di Caroline Moorehead
1,018 utenti
55 recensioni
3.9
5 Members
dchaikin, rhian_of_oz, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: WWII history
12
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
di Laura Hillenbrand
12,316 utenti
596 recensioni
½ 4.4
4 Members
janoorani24, terran, labfs39, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: WWII biography
13
Just kids
di Patti Smith
5,547 utenti
240 recensioni
4.1
5 Members
waitingtoderail, hipdeep, dchaikin, arubabookwoman, Charon07
14
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
di Hallie Rubenhold
1,571 utenti
68 recensioni
4.2
5 Members
Willoyd, arubabookwoman, japaul22, souloftherose, ahef1963
15
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
di Julie Phillips
746 utenti
33 recensioni
½ 4.4
3 Members
markon, dianeham, KeithChaffee
16
Preghiera per Černobyl'
di Svetlana Alexievich
2,361 utenti
80 recensioni
½ 4.3
4 Members
hipdeep, dchaikin, arubabookwoman, ahef1963
17
Uno specchio lontano: un secolo di avventure e di calamità: il Trecento
di Barbara W. Tuchman
7,206 utenti
123 recensioni
4.1
5 Members
janoorani24, RidgewayGirl, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: history
18
Stiff. The curious lives of human cadavers
di Mary Roach
10,996 utenti
458 recensioni
4.1
5 Members
waitingtoderail, ahef1963, valkyrdeath, Charon07, KeithChaffee
19
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
di Katherine Boo
4,402 utenti
294 recensioni
4.1
5 Members
markon, labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22, ahef1963
Spiegazioni
labfs39: journalism
20
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
di Janet Soskice
391 utenti
25 recensioni
4.2
4 Members
markon, labfs39, souloftherose, dianeham
Spiegazioni
labfs39: history, religion
21
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
di Gretchen McCulloch
1,102 utenti
46 recensioni
4
4 Members
rhian_of_oz, mabith, Julie_in_the_Library, KeithChaffee
22
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
di Anne Fadiman
4,853 utenti
127 recensioni
4.2
4 Members
RidgewayGirl, labfs39, arubabookwoman, dianeham
Spiegazioni
labfs39: medical history
23
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
di Anne Fadiman
4,560 utenti
213 recensioni
4.2
5 Members
dchaikin, janoorani24, Willoyd, japaul22, BLBera
24
H Is for Hawk
di Helen Macdonald
4,404 utenti
284 recensioni
3.9
4 Members
waitingtoderail, dchaikin, BLBera, Charon07
25
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
di Molly Guptill Manning
970 utenti
63 recensioni
3.9
4 Members
labfs39, mabith, valkyrdeath, Julie_in_the_Library
Spiegazioni
labfs39: books about books
26
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
di Isabel Wilkerson
5,293 utenti
186 recensioni
½ 4.4
4 Members
dchaikin, arubabookwoman, BLBera, ahef1963
27
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
di Susan Orlean
2,774 utenti
74 recensioni
½ 3.7
4 Members
BLBera, ahef1963, dianeham, Charon07
28
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
di Sheri Fink
1,535 utenti
169 recensioni
4.1
4 Members
dchaikin, RidgewayGirl, labfs39, arubabookwoman
Spiegazioni
labfs39: journalism
29
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
di Francesca Wade
334 utenti
11 recensioni
4.2
3 Members
Willoyd, japaul22, BLBera
30
Becoming
di Michelle Obama
8,622 utenti
345 recensioni
½ 4.4
4 Members
dchaikin, rhian_of_oz, BLBera, ahef1963
31
Lo stupro di Nanchino: l'olocausto dimenticato della seconda guerra mondiale
di Iris Chang
3,408 utenti
79 recensioni
4.1
4 Members
labfs39, arubabookwoman, BLBera, mabith
Spiegazioni
labfs39: WWII history
32
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
di Barbara Mertz
464 utenti
8 recensioni
4.2
3 Members
arubabookwoman, mabith, valkyrdeath
33
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
di Åsne Seierstad
629 utenti
28 recensioni
4.2
4 Members
janoorani24, RidgewayGirl, ahef1963, dianeham
34
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
di Isabel Wilkerson
4,314 utenti
167 recensioni
½ 4.4
4 Members
janoorani24, arubabookwoman, japaul22, dianeham
35
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
di Harriet A. Jacobs
4,355 utenti
78 recensioni
4
3 Members
hipdeep, arubabookwoman, BLBera
36
Proust e il calamaro: storia e scienza del cervello che legge
di Maryanne Wolf
1,775 utenti
50 recensioni
½ 3.7
3 Members
hipdeep, janoorani24, japaul22
37
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
di Jennifer Lee
957 utenti
49 recensioni
½ 3.7
3 Members
waitingtoderail, janoorani24, KeithChaffee
38
The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
di Caroline Alexander
682 utenti
22 recensioni
4
3 Members
janoorani24, mabith, valkyrdeath
39
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
di Lauren Redniss
774 utenti
50 recensioni
4.2
3 Members
markon, dchaikin, labfs39
Spiegazioni
labfs39: biography, graphic novel
40
Barracoon. L'ultimo schiavo
di Zora Neale Hurston
1,691 utenti
65 recensioni
4
3 Members
dchaikin, japaul22, Charon07
41
Gulag: storia dei campi di concentramento sovietici
di Anne Applebaum
2,665 utenti
43 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
labfs39, arubabookwoman, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: history
42
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
di Anne Lamott
10,252 utenti
240 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
janoorani24, ahef1963, Julie_in_the_Library
43
Capire Israele in 60 giorni (e anche meno)
di Sarah Glidden
403 utenti
23 recensioni
½ 3.6
3 Members
dchaikin, valkyrdeath, Julie_in_the_Library
44
Jane Austen: A Life
di Claire Tomalin
1,611 utenti
33 recensioni
4
3 Members
janoorani24, Willoyd, japaul22
45
Dieci brutali delitti
di Michelle McNamara
3,500 utenti
166 recensioni
4
3 Members
RidgewayGirl, ahef1963, dianeham
46
Figuring
di Maria Popova
490 utenti
9 recensioni
½ 4.3
2 Members
waitingtoderail, RidgewayGirl
47
Howards End is on the Landing
di Susan Hill
1,136 utenti
80 recensioni
½ 3.7
4 Members
janoorani24, Willoyd, arubabookwoman, BLBera
48
Scoundrel Time
di Lillian Hellman
463 utenti
7 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
janoorani24, rocketjk, BLBera
49
The Wordy Shipmates
di Sarah Vowell
2,829 utenti
156 recensioni
½ 3.7
3 Members
janoorani24, RidgewayGirl, BLBera
50
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
di Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2,196 utenti
35 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
labfs39, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: history
51
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
di Caroline Alexander
1,516 utenti
30 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
mabith, valkyrdeath
52
So you want to talk about race
di Ijeoma Oluo
2,789 utenti
87 recensioni
½ 4.5
3 Members
janoorani24, RidgewayGirl, BLBera
53
Roughing it in the Bush
di Susanna Moodie
536 utenti
8 recensioni
½ 3.5
3 Members
arubabookwoman, ahef1963, dianeham
54
Una stanza tutta per sé
di Virginia Woolf
12,460 utenti
168 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
dchaikin, BLBera
55
Cleopatra: una vita
di Stacy Schiff
4,432 utenti
188 recensioni
½ 3.7
3 Members
labfs39, japaul22, dianeham
Spiegazioni
labfs39: biography
56
La sesta estinzione: una storia innaturale
di Elizabeth Kolbert
3,674 utenti
163 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
waitingtoderail, arubabookwoman, japaul22
57
Infedele
di Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,600 utenti
193 recensioni
4.2
3 Members
janoorani24, labfs39, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: memoir
59
Black London: Life Before Emancipation
di Gretchen Gerzina
120 utenti
3.9
2 Members
Willoyd, arubabookwoman
60
Mao: la storia sconosciuta
di Jung Chang
2,852 utenti
53 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
lilisin, arubabookwoman
61
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
di Ruth Goodman
938 utenti
36 recensioni
4.2
3 Members
arubabookwoman, mabith, valkyrdeath
62
Vesper Flights
di Helen Macdonald
742 utenti
31 recensioni
4
2 Members
waitingtoderail, Willoyd
63
Autobiografia di Alice Toklas
di Gertrude Stein
2,714 utenti
44 recensioni
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, dianeham
64
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
di Laura Cumming
330 utenti
12 recensioni
3.8
3 Members
arubabookwoman, japaul22, BLBera
65
La regina del deserto
di Georgina Howell
692 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
Willoyd, japaul22
66
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
di Samantha Power
599 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 4.3
2 Members
janoorani24, rocketjk
67
Lab Girl
di Hope Jahren
2,664 utenti
158 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
dchaikin, terran
68
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began
di Valerie Hansen
307 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.4
2 Members
rocketjk, mabith
69
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
di Marilyn Johnson
795 utenti
26 recensioni
½ 3.6
2 Members
waitingtoderail, KeithChaffee
70
Longitude
di Dava Sobel
9,263 utenti
183 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
dchaikin, arubabookwoman, japaul22
71
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
di Nikole Hannah-Jones
1,524 utenti
28 recensioni
½ 4.5
2 Members
waitingtoderail, terran
72
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
di Carla Power
203 utenti
14 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
markon, BLBera
Spiegazioni
markon: religion, a view of studying the Koran and the influence of one imam
73
How to Suppress Women's Writing
di Joanna Russ
728 utenti
20 recensioni
½ 4.3
2 Members
janoorani24, valkyrdeath
74
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
di Joanne B. Freeman
459 utenti
13 recensioni
4.2
2 Members
waitingtoderail, mabith
75
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
di Joan Druett
571 utenti
33 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
janoorani24, arubabookwoman, japaul22
76
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
di Fay Weldon
584 utenti
15 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
janoorani24, Willoyd, arubabookwoman
78
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
di Mary Roach
2,561 utenti
172 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
Charon07, KeithChaffee
79
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
di Cheryl Strayed
8,800 utenti
519 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
janoorani24, terran
80
C'era una volta la DDR
di Anna Funder
1,899 utenti
59 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Willoyd
81
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
di Andrea Wulf
2,394 utenti
83 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
Willoyd, japaul22
82
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
di Jill Lepore
1,396 utenti
63 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
dchaikin, janoorani24
83
Dovremmo essere tutti femministi
di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4,024 utenti
174 recensioni
4.2
2 Members
BLBera, dianeham
84
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
di Rosemary Sullivan
496 utenti
11 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
arubabookwoman, ahef1963
85
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
di Mary Roach
1,498 utenti
63 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
labfs39, KeithChaffee
Spiegazioni
labfs39: science
86
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
di Sy Montgomery
2,369 utenti
115 recensioni
3.8
Member
Charon07
87
L'intestino felice
di Giulia Enders
1,694 utenti
69 recensioni
4
Member
chlorine
88
The Weaker Vessel
di Antonia Fraser
1,293 utenti
6 recensioni
3.9
Member
RidgewayGirl
89
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
di Margalit Fox
703 utenti
37 recensioni
4.1
Member
valkyrdeath
90
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
di Dara Horn
314 utenti
25 recensioni
½ 4.4
Member
Julie_in_the_Library
91
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
di Susan Sontag
295 utenti
3 recensioni
3.9
Member
rv1988
92
Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
di Lesley M. M. Blume
230 utenti
15 recensioni
4.1
Member
labfs39
Spiegazioni
labfs39: journalism, WWII history
93
Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
di Judith Shapiro
76 utenti
1 recensione
4
Member
SassyLassy
94
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
di Kate Clifford Larson
38 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 4.5
Member
rocketjk
95
The Norton Book of Women's Lives
di Phyllis Rose
412 utenti
1 recensione
4.2
2 Members
rocketjk, japaul22
96
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
di Victoria Finlay
2,156 utenti
29 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
janoorani24, Willoyd, arubabookwoman
97
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
di Candice Millard
3,565 utenti
142 recensioni
4.2
2 Members
labfs39, japaul22
Spiegazioni
labfs39: history
98
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
di Barbara W. Tuchman
2,796 utenti
37 recensioni
4
2 Members
janoorani24, valkyrdeath
99
A occidente con la notte
di Beryl Markham
3,628 utenti
129 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
rocketjk, japaul22
100
Il libraio di Kabul
di Åsne Seierstad
5,629 utenti
167 recensioni
½ 3.6
2 Members
RidgewayGirl, labfs39
Spiegazioni
labfs39: journalism