Celebrate National Women’s History Month with these 29 great books.
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Ifemelu is a Nigerian woman who has spent the last 15 years in the United States, achieving academic success and writing a successful blog about racism in America. When her fellowship at Princeton ends, she returns to the newly democratic Nigeria and encounters her first love, Obinze. An epic saga of love and identity, Americanah is an examination of race in American and Nigerian life.
Knopf
Dealing With Dragons (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles series) by Patricia C. Wrede
Dealing With Dragons's Princess Cimorene is everything her father doesn't want her to be: independent, stubborn, and a tomboy. When Cimorene gives up on the lackluster, proper life she is meant to live, she runs away and finds a dragon named Kazul.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
In Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, 14-year-old Esch discovers she is pregnant in the midst of Hurricane Katrina threatening her family's coastal Mississippi town. Despite the chaos and scarcity of food, Esch struggles to protect her family during the storm in this powerful story of strength and hope against all odds.
Bloomsbury
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