Miriam’s Staff Picks for Women’s History Month
Miriam, our resident nonfiction reader, shares her top 5 book recommendations for Women’s History Month.
Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (LOA #388) by Margaret Fuller; Edited by Noelle A. Baker and Megan Marshall
A true American original—radical transcendentalist, intrepid journalist, and pioneering feminist—joins Library of America with the most authoritative single-volume collection of her writings ever, including many rare and previously unpublished works, newly transcribed from original notebooks and journals.
“Humanity can be divided into three classes: men, women, and Margaret Fuller.”—Edgar Allan Poe
Available in Hardcover and eBook Editions.
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by Bernice L. McFadden
From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters.
“Firstborn Girls, Bernice McFadden’s riveting memoir, cements her position as one of America’s most creative and necessary writers. Like Toni Morrison who focused her lens specifically on the lives of Black people, and hence told a universal story, so too does McFadden. With Firstborn Girls she has produced a vital and stunningly gorgeous work, again.”—Sapphire, New York Times bestselling author of Push and The Kid
Available in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest by Melissa Arnot Reid
A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul.
“Enough reads as if I’m standing on a wind-blown crevasse with one of my favorite athletes. Melissa teaches us how to reach our own personal summit by showing how she climbs on despite trauma, pain, tension, stress, doubt, and failure. She knows what it feels like to stand on top, but sharing this book and the detailed journey of how she got there is her greatest achievement.”—Deena Kastor, Olympic medalist and New York Times bestselling author of Let Your Mind Run
Available April 1st in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Notes to John by Joan Didion
An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.
Available April 22nd in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
Didion’s journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers—questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.
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This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg
Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife.
“A deeply honest and hilarious book about how you always win if you bet on yourself.”—Amy Poehler
Available April 29th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio.
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