International Women’s Day reading suggestions

International Women’s Day recognises and celebrates the women and girls who are championing transformative technology and digital education.

This year's theme is exploring the impact of the digital gender gap. It spotlights the importance of protecting women’s and girl’s rights in digital spaces, including the need to address online gender-based violence.

Titles for adults

Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism by  Safiya Umoja Noble

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales

The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace by Jennifer Chiaverini (Fiction)

Equal Power: And How You Can Make It Happen by Jo Swinson (eAudiobook)

The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life by Sylvain Dorange

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

How to Stay Safe Online: A Digital Self-care Toolkit for Developing Resilience and Allyship by Seyi Akiwowo

How to Talk to Robots: A Girls’ Guide to a Future Dominated by AI by Tabitha Goldstaub

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini (eBook)

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Fiction)

Let It Go: The Entrepreneur Turned Ardent Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley

Marie Curie and her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family by Shelley Emling

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (Fiction)

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix by Howard Markel

She's in CTRL: How Women Can Take Back Tech by Anne-Marie Imafidon

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal

Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi

Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock and Rhodri Evans

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Weiner (eBook)

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why Women Are Poorer than Men and What We Can Do About It by Annabelle Williams (eAudiobook)

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Women, Race and Class by Angela Y Davis

Titles for teenagers

Bullies, cyberbullies and frenemies by Michele Elliott

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani and Andrea Tsurumi

I, Ada by Julia Gray (fiction)

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai

Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral by Justin Patchin (eBook)

Titles for children

 

Ada Lovelace by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty (eBook, Fiction)

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pantaloons by Andrea Beaty (Fiction)

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants by Andrea Beaty (eBook, Fiction)

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty (eBook, Fiction)

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty (Fiction)

The A-Z of Wonder Women by Yvonne Lin

Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions & Designs by Women by Owen O’Doherty

Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World by Konnie Huq (Fiction)

Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker

Girls Solve Everything: Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World by Catherine Thimmesh (eAudiobook)

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt (eAudiobook, Fiction)

Leonora Bolt: Deep Sea Calamity by Lucy Brandt (Fiction)

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison

Malala: My story of Standing Up for Girls’ Rights by Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Marie Curie (Little Guides to Great Lives) by Isabel Thomas

Marie Curie (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Marie Curie and Her Daughters by Imogen Greenberg

Pioneers of Science and Technology (Brilliant Women) by Georgia Amson-Bradshaw

Reaching the Stars: Poems About Extraordinary Women & Girls by Jan Dean, Liz Brownlee, and Michaela Morgan

Rosalind Franklin (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Women Scientists in Physics and Engineering by Catherine Brereton