Women’s History Month

Empresses of Seventh Avenue

World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

By: Nancy MacDonell
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“A captivating narration of how America (New York) came on to the fashion scene and dominated. Read more

Kingmaker

Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

By: Sonia Purnell
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

“Pamela Harriman (née Hayward née Churchill née Digby) was notorious; reams of paper in the 20th century were spent on her exploits. In this fascinating portrait, Sonia Purnell corrects the history (and its hypocrisy) about a woman who not only slept with power but wielded it, her insatiable ambition and unshakeable patriotism shaping the outcome... Read more

The Woman Who Smashed Codes

A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her... Read more

A Woman of No Importance

The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

“Fans of World War II, Women’s and Resistance History will love this biography of Virginia Hall. The story is told like a spy THRILLER and every page is riveting!! Sonia Purnell’s years of extensive research tells the extraordinary tale of a very brave female American spy behind enemy lines during World War II in occupied France. Virginia Hall... Read more

Blood, Fire & Gold

The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici

By: Estelle Paranque
Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

A beautifully thorough examination into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as well as the course of history.

Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures–and yet against all... Read more

This Thread of Gold

A Celebration of Black Womanhood

By: Catherine Joy White
Narrated by: Catherine Joy White
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism

From gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond.

This immersive and... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

“This intense, experimental history weaves together biography, archival record, photographs, and a kind of radical act of imagination to tell the stories of Black and queer women in Philadelphia & NYC at the turn of the century - their experiments in love, living, sex, family, gender, autonomy - all while under severe legal, societal, and... Read more

The Fall of Roe

The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer
Narrated by: Lipica Shah
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

“The most important book in the lead up to this election.” —Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC

“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.” —New York magazine

“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.” —Alex Wagner on Alex Wagner Tonight

This program... Read more

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Length: 45 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah

"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

Educated

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“How a young woman, raised without modern medicine, any schooling, or even a birth certificate, in a remote Mormon, survivalist household in Idaho, made it to college and ended up receiving a PhD from Cambridge is the incredible story of this memoir. Outstanding! This true story is a beautifully written and narrated, soulful, hilarious,... Read more

Women Living Deliciously

By: Florence Given
Narrated by: Florence Given
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women to rediscover their joy, reject toxic wellness culture, and redefine feminism for themselves.

Women Living Deliciously wants us to fall in love with our lives. It will help women uncover the sense of awe and wonder that has been buried by the layers... Read more

How Women Made Music

A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

By: National Public Radio, Inc & Alison Fensterstock
Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers, Janina Edwards, Hillary Huber, Maggi-Meg Reed, Chanté McCormick & Inés del Castillo
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Solange, and many more.NPR’s launch of the multi-platform series Turning the Tables in 2017,... Read more

The Star-Touched Queen

Star-Touched: Book #1

By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

A lush and vivid story steeped in Indian folklore and mythology, Roshani Chokshi's The Star-touched Queen is a novel that no listener will soon forget. An instant New York Times bestseller!

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?

Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises... Read more

Take My Hand

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Narrated by: Lauren J. Daggett
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is historical fiction that addresses a still very relevant topic -- women's reproductive rights, and it does so in a very personal way. Set in 1973 and 2016, the book is based on the true story of forced sterilizations performed by the US government primarily on poor women of color. I loved that the nuances... Read more

The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi & Nikki Massoud
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“A beautiful book, heartbreaking and hopeful both. Complex, memorable characters for whom you feel and want so much. Homa, perhaps especially, and Ellie and all others, too. Themes of self determination, revolution, friendship, family, courage, integrity, cultural wealth and survivance… An epic tale of women’s rights and righteousness, and a... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“I loved Elizabeth Zott! She's a quirky, dynamic, headstrong heroine who is, above all else, a brilliant chemist. She struggles to be taken seriously but refuses to bow to the expectations and societal norms for women in the sixties. The story is funny, profound, entertaining, brazenly feminist, and Elizabeth has the BEST dog ever, Six-Thirty!... Read more

The Island of Sea Women

A Novel

By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

“As with her previous novels, Lisa See manages to transport the reader to another culture. Using the universal themes of friendship and female empowerment See brings a WWII Korean island to life. Mi-ja and Young-sook, sisters of the heart, grow together and then are forced apart by circumstances much larger than themselves. The story shifts... Read more

By Any Other Name

A Novel

By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance & Steve West
Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

“I just finished By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult and I cannot give enough good praise for this story. I laughed, I cried, I got angry, I rejoiced. This story was beyond brilliant and it will stick with me for years to come. This is a must listen! Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“Reading the stories in Her Body and Other Parties has been among the memorable literary pleasures of 2017. Carmen Maria Machado writes with fearless exploration, precision, and tenderness that would prompt envy if gratitude and admiration weren’t first to arrive on the scene. From the lovely, apocalyptic love story Inventory to the dizzying and... Read more

After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE



An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.



"The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse.... Read more