Book Recommendations: International Women's Day

Celebrated annually on 8 March, International Women's Day is an opportunity to recognise the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

In recognition of this day and this year's theme Break the Bias, our librarians have shared their favourite books about women who chose to challenge in order to make change. 

• Who Gets to be Smart?: privilege, power and knowledge, Bri Lee
• How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue
• That’s What She Said: what men need to know (and women need to tell them) about working together, Joanne Lipman
• Libertie: a novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge
• Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko
• Breaking the Mould: taking a hammer to sexism in sport, Angela Pippos
• Dropbear, Evelyn Araluen
• Women rowing North: navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age, Mary Bray Pipher 
• Where the fruit falls, Karen Wyld 
• She said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement, Jodi Kantor 
• Uncanny Valley: a memoir, Anna Wiener
• Rebel women: the renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world - from the French Revolution to today, Rosalind Miles