HERstory Books

At HERstory on the Rocks one of our favorite things is growing our love of literature! Katie & Allie always enjoy a good read and just can’t wait to review books written by and/or about women. Below are some of the authors we have interviewed on our show.

The Whispers of War

By Julia Kelly

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Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay

By Jamie L.H. Goodall

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Victorine

By Drema Drudge

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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

By Audrey Clare Farley

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The Social Graces

By Renee Rosen

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Alice in Yonder Land: In 1909, Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive across America

By Lyn Woodward

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Burn Down This World

By Tina Egnoski

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When the Apricots Bloom

By Gina Wilkinson

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Great Circle

By Maggie Shipstead

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The Wolf Den

By Elodie Harper

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Spin

By Peter Zheutlin

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Fading Fame

By Pam Munter

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The Man Who Hated Women

By Amy Sohn

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A Lesser Mortal

By Kimberly Hess

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Two-Way Mirror

By Fiona Sampson

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Saved at the Seawall

By Jessica DuLang

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The Duchess

By Wendy Holden

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The Woman at the Front

By Lecia Cornwall

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The Taking of Jemima Boone

By Matthew Pearl

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Women on Waves

By Jim Kempton

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The Accidental Suffragist

By Galia Gichon

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All Stirred Up

By Laura Kumin

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Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool

By Helen Lundstrom Erwin

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Dear John

By Susan L Carruthers

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By Malinda Lo

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Let’s Get Physical

By Danielle Friedman

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Queen of Jerusalem

By Katherine Pangonis

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Bathsheba Spooner

By Andrew Noone

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The Road We Took

By Cathy A Lewis

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Crossing Bayou Teche

By Melanie Durand Grossman

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The Myth of Surrender

By Kelly O’Connor McNees

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La Nijinska: Choreographer

of the Modern

By Lynn Garafola

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Public Faces, Secret Lives

By Wendy L Rouse

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Lieutenant Sonia Valiano

By Sonia Vagliano-Eloy

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Sky Chase

By Lauren Massuda

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The Diamond Eye

By Kate Quinn

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Feedin Fascism

By Diana Garvin

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NSFW

By Isabel Kaplan

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Warming Up Julia Child

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

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There’s Nothing Micro about a Billion Women

By Mary Ellen Iskenderian

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Dressing Up

By Elizabeth L Block

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The Silent Unseen

By Carol Hay

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Formidable: American Women & the Fight for Equality

By Elisabeth Griffith

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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

Edited & Collected by You Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang

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Bad Sex

By Nona Willis Aronowitz

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Kismet

By Amina Akhtar

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The Force of Such Beauty

By Barbara Bourland

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The Indenture of Ivy O’Neill

By Diane Heletjaris

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Lemons in the Garden of Love

By Ames Sheldon

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Love on the Brain

By Ali Hazel wood

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Object Impermanence

By Margery Bayne

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Lydia Maria Child

By Lydia Moland

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The Interpreter’s Daughter

By Teresa Lim

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