Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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Some books about cool women in history! Plus some historical fiction and fantasy! What book recommendations do you have for Women's History Month?

Books mentioned in this video:
Non-fiction
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment by Kimi Cunningham Grant
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq by Iraqui

Historical fiction
Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos
Between Shades of Gray/Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

Fantasy
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Bonus books!!
Bronze Drum by Phong Nguyen
Polar Exposure: An All-Women's Expedition to the North Pole by Felicity Aston


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timestamps
00:00 intro
00:33 Almost Astronauts
01:17 Farewell to Manzanar
01:46 Silver Like Dust
02:18 I Am Malala
02:42 A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
03:15 IraqiGirl
04:03 Isla to Island
04:50 Between Shades of Gray/Ashes in the Snow
05:46 I Can Make This Promise
07:27 Sky in the Deep
08:11 The Magnolia Sword
08:35 A Natural History of Dragons
09:20 Walk on Earth a Stranger
10:42 The Poppy War
11:43 Bronze Drum
12:27 Polar Exposure
12:48 outro