
We curated this list 2026 Women Authored Leadership Book List to promote women authored leadership books. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement and the books listed are in alphabetical order. Check out our other leadership book lists by authors who identify as LGBTQIA+, AANHPI, Native American, Black, and Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx. View all of our leadership book lists here.
- #KeepGoing: From 15-Year-Old Mom to Successful CEO & Entrepreneur – Mari Tautimes
- #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women – Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale (eds)
- [Un]framing the “Bad Woman” – Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- 10 New Rules for Women at Work – Deb Liu
- 101 Reasons to Get Out of Bed – Natasha Milne
- 12 Tools for Managing a Selfish Leader – Josefine Campbell
- 3HAG Way – Shannon Byrne Susko
- 50 Billion Dollar Boss – Kathey Porter
- 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership – Kate Coleman
- 7 Forms of Respect – Julie Pham, PhD
- A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain – Christina Crosby
- A CEO for All Seasons – Carolyn Dewar
- A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir – Jacinda Ardern
- A Face for Picasso – Ariel Henley
- A Good Cry, What we Learn from Tears and Laughter – Nikki Giovanni
- A House of My Own: Stories From My Life – Sandra Cisneros
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground – Alicia Elliott
- A Mythic Life: Learning to live our greater story – Jean Houston
- A Passion for the Possible – Jean Houston
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- A Writer’s Diary – Virginia Woolf
- Abandon Me: Memoirs – Melissa Febos
- Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader – Hermina Ibarra
- Acting Up: Winning in Business and in Life – Janice Bryant Howroyd
- After the Idea – Julia Austin
- After the Rain – Alexandra Elle
- Against White Feminism – Rafia Zakaria
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
- All About Love – Bell Hooks
- All In: An Autobiography – Billie Jean King
- All It Takes Is a Goal – Jon Acuff
- All That She Carried – Tiya Miles
- All the Leader You Can Be – Suzanne Bates
- Ally Leadership – Stephanie Chung
- Almost a Woman – Esmeralda Santiago
- America for Americans – Erika Lee
- American Indian Stories – Zitkala-Sa
- An Indian Among Los Indígenas – Ursula Pike
- An Overachiever’s Guide to Breaking the Rules – Heather Whelpley
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness – Kay Redfield Jamison
- Anchored, Aligned, Accountable – Aiko Bethea
- And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir – Joan Baez
- And Now We Are Going to Have a Party – Nicola Griffith
- Annapurna: A woman’s place – Arlene Blum
- AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes – Lynda Lopez
- Apocalyptic Best Practices – Elisebeth VanderWeil
- Are You Mad at Me? – Meg Josephson
- As Long As Grass Grows – Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Ask For It – Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever
- ASL Saved My Life…Until it didn’t – Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
- Atlas of the Heart – Brene Brown
- Audition – Katie Kitamura
- Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work – Susan David
- Awakened Leaders: Empowering Stories – Aeriol Ascher
- Awakened Leaders: How To Become The Leader The World Needs – Mel MacIntyre
- Awakening Compassion at Work – Jane Dutton & Monica Worline
- Back to Business: Finding Your Confidence – Nancy McSharry Jensen & Sarah Duenwald
- Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
- Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir – Deborah Miranda
- Bad Leadership – Barbara Kellerman
- Balancing Work and Life: The Nia guide for Black Women – Sheryl Huggins & Cherly Mayberry McKissack
- Bamboozled: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams – Yvonne Orji
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” – Zora Neale Hurston
- Be BOLD Today – Leigh Burgess
- Be Brilliant – Janine Garner
- Be Water, My Friend – Sharon Lee
- Beating The Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM – Patty Rowland Burke and Kelly Simmons
- Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney
- Becoming – Michelle Obama
- Becoming An AI Orchestrator – Sadie St Lawrence
- Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt
- Becoming Trader Joe – Patty Civalleri
- Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid – Mikaila Ulmer
- Being Heumann – Judith E. Heumann
- Believe Bigger – Marshawn Evans Daniels
- Better: A more authentic path for the reluctant thought leader – Christina Wedgwood
- Beyond Anxiety – Martha Beck
- Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment – Leticia Nieto
- Biased – Jennifer Eberhardt
- Big Freakin’ Change – Cara Moeller Poppitt
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
- Bird of Paradise: How I became a Latina – Raquel Cepeda
- Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience – Veronica Gorrie
- Black Entrepreneur Survival Guide – Dunneille D. Anderson
- Black Fatigue – Mary-Frances Winters
- Black Futures – Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
- Black Girls Rock! – Beverly Bond
- Black Indian: A memoir – Shonda Buchanan
- Black Power Inc. – Cora Daniels
- Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire – Carol Jenkins & Elizabeth Gardner Hines
- Black Women Taught Us – Jenn M. Jackson, PhD
- Black, White, and The Grey – Mashama Bailey & John O. Morisano
- Blackbird: A childhood lost and found – Jennifer Lauck
- Blaze Your Own Trail – Rebekah Bastian
- Blindspotting: How to see what others miss – Kirstin Ferguson
- Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir – Ernestine Hayes
- Blood, Bones & Butter – Gabrielle Hamilton
- Blue Ocean Strategy – Renee Mauborgne
- Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza – Gloria Anzaldúa
- Boss Bride – Charreah Jackson
- Boundaries – Maya Lin
- Brag Better – Meredith Fineman
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness – Susannah Cahalan
- Branding Pays – Karen Kang
- Brave Leadership – Kimberly Davis
- Breaking Ground and Barriers – Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D.
- Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling – Jane Hyun
- Breaking Through: My Life in Science – Katalin Karikó
- Breathe To Succeed – Sandy Abrams
- Bridge Builders – Maria Keckler
- Bridges to Heal US – Erin Jones
- Bridging the Confidence Gap – Sheena Yap Chan
- Brotopia – Emily Chang
- Budding Lotus in the West – Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần
- Build an A team – Whitney Johnson
- Build Your Cultural Agility – Paula Caligiuri
- Build Your Dream Team – Candela Iglesis
- Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir – Marsha M. Linehan
- Building Inclusion – Marsha Ramroop
- Bully Free At Work – Valerie Cade
- Business as Unusual – Anita Roddick
- Business Culture Leadership – Reese L Stone
- Calling In – Loretta Ross
- Career Imprints – Monica Higgins
- Careless People – Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Caring: A feminine approach to ethics and moral education – Nel Noddings
- Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land – Toni Jensen
- CEO of My Soul – Nic Cober Esquire
- Character Leadership – Alison C Jones
- Chasing Youth Culture and Getting it Right – Tina Wells
- Chief in Tech – Anna Radulovski
- Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
- Circe – Madeline Miller
- Climb: Achieving a Thriving Career and a Successful Life – Michelle Gadsden-Williams & Carolyn M. Brown
- Coach Better, Lead Better – Melinda Baiza and Lorna Klokkenga
- Coach Yourself Confident – Julie Smith
- Come into My Office – Mai Ton
- Common Fire – Sharon Parks, et. al.
- Confidence – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Connie: A Memoir – Connie Chung
- Constructing a Nervous System – Margo Jefferson
- Contagious Confidence – Julie Smith
- Conversational Intelligence – Judith Glaser
- CORE Leadership – Miki Feldman Simon
- Cormorant Hunter’s Wife – Joan Naviyuk Kane
- Counter Mentor Leadership – Kelly Riggs & Robby Riggs
- Courage: The Backbone of Leadership – Gus Lee & Diane Elliott-Lee
- Crazy Brave: A Memoir – Joy Harjo
- Creating culture – Jyoti Jani
- Creating Equity with Gracious Space – Patricia Hughes
- Creating Great Choices – Jennifer Riel & Roger Martin
- Critically Sovereign – Joanne Barker
- Crux: A cross-border memoir – Jean Guerrero
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir – Michelle Zauner
- Curious Leadership – Melissa Rosenthal
- Dancing at the Edge of the World – Ursula LeGuin
- Dare to Inspire – Allison Holzer
- Dare to Lead – Brene Brown
- Dare to Lead Like a Girl – Dalia Feldheim
- Darling, You Can’t Do Both – Janet Kestin & Nancy Vonk
- Dear Female Founder – Lu Li
- Dear Girls – Ali Wong
- Death of Innocence – Christopher Benson and Mamie Till-Mobley
- DEI-ing: A Guide to Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Dr. Cheryl Ingram
- Demystifying Disability – Emily Ladau
- Depression Fighter – Jodi Orgill Brown
- Desert Flower – Cathleen Miller and Waris Dirie
- Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
- Did That Just Happen?! – Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Lauren Wadsworth
- Disability Visibility – Alice Wong
- Disarm Your Limits – Jessica Cox
- Discovering Your Dawn – Katherine Miracle
- Disrupt it Yourself – Simone Ahuja
- Disrupters – Patti Fletcher
- Dog Flowers: A Memoir – Danielle Geller
- Don’t Make It Weird – Colleen Nichols
- Double Down – Antionette M. Clarke & Tricia Clarke-Stone
- Dream Big – Deborah Rosado Shaw
- Dream in Color – Linda Sánchez
- Driven by Intention – Michelle Gadsden-Williams
- Drop the Ball – Tiffany Dufu
- Dust Track on a Road – Zora Neale Hurston
- Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World – Linda Hogan
- Eartha & Kitt – Kitt Shapiro
- Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Edge: Turning Adversity Into Advantage – Laura Huang
- Elegy for a Disease – Anne Finger
- Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
- Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown
- Emotional Agility – Susan David
- Emotionally Charged – Dina Denham Smith and Alicia Grandey
- Employee Understanding – Annette Franz
- Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan – Ruby Lal
- Enduring Conviction – Lorraine K. Bannai
- Engaging Emergence – Peggy Holman
- Engaging Your Employees – Danielle Lord Ph.D.
- Entrepreneurial You – Dorie Clark
- Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership – Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan
- Everybody’s Got Something – Robin Roberts & Veronica Chambers
- Executive Being: Humanizing Business One Leader at a Time – Katherine Lazaruk
- Expect to Win – Carla Harris
- Extraordinary Bodies – Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- Extraordinary Circumstances – Cynthia Cooper
- Failosophy – Elizabeth Day
- Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah
- Farmworker’s Daughter – Rose Castillo Guilbault
- Fault Lines: A Memoir – Meena Alexander
- Fearless Authenticity – Jeanne Sparrow
- Fearless Growth – Amanda Setili
- Feeding the Soul – Tabitha Brown
- Feel the Fear… and Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
- Feeling Power – Megan Boler
- Female Firebrands – Mikaela Kiner
- Female Founders’ Playbook – Anne Boden
- Female Innovators at Work – Danielle Newnham
- Feminine Intelligence – Elina Teboul
- Feminist Queer Crip – Alison Kafer
- Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child – Emma Gonzalez
- Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu & Gwendolyn Mink
- Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott
- Fierce Leadership – Susan Scott
- Find Another Dream – Maysoon Zayid
- Finding Beauty in a Broken World – Terry Tempest Williams
- Finding Latinx – Paola Ramos
- Finding Me: A Memoir – Viola Davis
- Finding My Voice – Valarie Jarret
- Finding Our Way – Margaret Wheatley
- Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice – Karen Chen
- Fired Up – Shannon Watts
- Fixing Fairness – Lily Zheng
- Flawless Leadership – Gloria Burgess
- Flight Club – Felena Hanson
- Focused Moments – Danielle Lord PhD & Anika Klix MA
- Force Majeure – Dr. Terri Horton
- Founder vs Investor – Elizabeth Joy Zalman and Jerry Neumann
- Frida – Barbara Mujica
- From Ball Girl to CMO – Melissa M Proctor
- Fully Connected – Mel Kettle
- FutureProofed – Natalia Peart
- Gathering Moss – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Genius at Scale – Linda A. Hill et al
- Get Good with Money – Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche
- Get Up And Get On It – Dana Frank
- Girl Code – Cara Alwill Leyba
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
- Giving Wings to Her Team – Tilo Schwarz and Jeffrey K. Liker
- Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive Teams – Anh Dao Pham
- God is Red – Vine deLoria, Jr.
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Sonja Thomas & Lilly Workneh
- Great Asian Americans: Ellison Onizuka – Stephanie Cham
- Great Asian Americans: Michelle Kwan – Stephanie Cham
- Great Asian Americans: Patsy Mink – Stephanie Cham
- Great Asian Americans: Tammy Duckworth – Stephanie Cham
- Great Asian Americans: Yo-Yo Ma – Stephanie Cham
- Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead
- Grit: The power of passion and perseverance – Angela Duckworth
- Group Dyna-Mix – Maria Katsarou-Makin
- Haben: The deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law – Haben Girma
- Having It All – Corinne Low
- Hawaii’s Story – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii
- Headamentals – Suzy Burke et al
- Heart Berries – Terese Marie Mailhot
- Heart of Fire – Mazie K. Hirono
- Hello, Fears – Michelle Poler
- Hermanas – Natalia Kohn Rivera
- Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
- Hiding in the Bathroom – Morra Aarons-Mele
- Hispanic Women Seeking Higher Leadership Roles in Business – Syliva C. Motta, PhD
- Holly Woodlawn Story, The – Holly Woodlawn
- Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
- Hood Feminist – Mikki Kendall
- Horse Barbie – Geena Rocero
- Hot Sports – Lynda Gratton
- House of Huawei – Eva Dou
- How I See It: A Personal and Historical View of Disability – H Penny Mishkin
- How Innovation Really Works – Ann Knott
- How Learning Works – Marsha C. Lovett / Susan A. Ambrose
- How Remarkable Women Lead – Joanna Barsh
- How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be Enough – Ellen Hendriksen
- How to Change – Katy Milkman
- How to Fall in Love with Questions – Elizabeth Weingarten
- How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office – adrienne maree brown (eds)
- How To Get On With Anyone – Catherine Stothart
- How to Raise a Feminist Son – Sonora Jha
- How To Stop Caring What Others Think – Shona Schwartz
- How We Learn to Be Brave – Mariann Edgar Budde
- How We Show Up – Mia Birdsong
- How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You – Kelly McDonald & Teri Schmidt
- How to Wow – Francis Cole Jones
- How Women Decide – Therese Huston
- Humor, Seriously – Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay
- I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir – Debra Lee
- I Am Maria – Maria Shriver
- I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry from a beautiful brain – Kerenza Ryan
- I Got This: To Gold and Beyond – Lauren Hernandez
- I Know How She Does It – Laura Vanderkam
- I Love a Broad Margin to My Life – Maxine Hong Kingston
- I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This – Kate White
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Now What? – Dr. Sweta Chawla
- I Wish I’d Known This – Brenda Wensil & Kathryn Heath
- I’ll Scream Later – Marlee Matlin
- I’d Rather Be In Charge – Charlotte Beers
- Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote – Dinah Johnson
- Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits – Emmanuel Acho
- Imaginable – Jane McGonigal
- I’m Judging You: The do-better manual – Luvvie Ajayi
- I’m Not Yelling – Elizabeth Leiba
- I’m Speaking: Every Woman’s Guide for Finding Your Voice – Jessica Doyle-Mekkes
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
- I’m the One That I Want – Margaret Cho
- Imperfect Courage – Jessica Honegger
- Impolite Conversations – Cora Daniels & John L. Jackson Jr.
- In a Different Voice – Carol Gilligan
- In Her Own Voice – Jennifer McCollum
- In My Shoes – Tamara Mellon
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens – Alice Walker
- In the Company of Women – Grace Bonney
- In the Country We Love: My Family Divided – Diane Guerrero
- In The Dream House: A Memoir – Carmen Maria Machado
- In the Shadow of the Eagle – Donna M. Loring
- In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage – Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs
- Inclusion on Purpose – Ruchika Tulshyan
- Inclusion Revolution – Daisy Auger-Dominguez
- Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace, & The Will To Change – Jennifer Brown
- Influence Unleashed – Victoria Pelletier
- In-N-Out Burger – Stacy Perman
- Innovation Starts With I – Saleema Vellani
- Inside Out – Caprice D. Hollins
- Insight – Tasha Eurich
- Intentioning – Gloria Feldt
- Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! – Lori Greiner
- Inventing Latinos – Laura E. Gómez
- Isabel’s Hand-Me-Down Dreams – Isabel Lopez
- It Not (All) Your Fault – Sharon Podobnik
- It Takes Moxie – Maureen Francisco
- It’s About Damn Time – Arlan Hamilton
- It’s About Time – Valorie Burton
- It’s Not Rocket Science: 7 Game Changing Traits – Mary Spio
- Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray – Rosalind Rosenberg
- Jo Malone: My Story – Jo Malone
- Journey to the Future – Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch
- Joyful Living: Find Joy in the Journey – Lien Ngu
- Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson
- Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom – Arielle Silverman, PhD
- Justice & Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community – Kathy Bussert-Web, et. al.
- Key to Yourself – Dr. Venice Bloodworth
- Kin – Tayari Jones
- Know My Name – Chanel Miller
- Know What Makes Them Tick – Shonda Rhimes
- Know Your Value – Mika Brzezinski
- Labwork to Leadership – Jen Heemstra
- Lakota Woman – Mary Brave Bird
- Launch: How To Take Your Business To New Heights – Jen Du Plessis
- Latina Empowerment Through Leadership – Catherine Munos Garces, et. al.
- Latina Guide to Health, The – Jane Delgado
- Latinas in Aviation – Jacqueline S. Ruiz
- Latinas Rising Up in HR – Priscilla Guasso
- Latinization and the Latino Leader – Cristina Benitez & Marlene Gonzalez
- Latino and Latina Leaders of the 21st Century – Kay (Kayla) S. Garcia
- Latinos in American Society – Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana
- Lead from the Outside – Stacey Abrams
- Lead Like a Woman – Deborah Smith Pegues
- Lead With Trust – Hannah Eisenberg
- Lead without Blame – Diana Larsen and Tricia Broderick
- Leader Unlocked – Lynn Scott
- Leadership and the New Science – Margaret Wheatley
- Leadership for Scientists and Engineers – Gwen Acton
- Leadership Gap, The – Lolly Daskal
- Leadership in Complexity and Change – Sharon Varney
- Leadership Shift, The – Dr. Nilda Perez
- Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way – Robin Gerber
- Leadership Unblocked – Muriel M. Wilkins
- Leadership Unchained – Sara Canady
- Leadership Unmasked – Marut Bhardwaj
- Leading by My Ponytail – Karen M. Walker & Judy Ducharme
- Leading for Impact – Jennifer Schielke
- Leading for Wellness – Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer
- Leading gracefully – Monique Tallon
- Leading into the Future – Daniela Katarzynski
- Leading so People Will Follow – Erika Andersen
- Leading with grit – Laurie Sudbrink
- Leading Yourself – Elizabeth Lotardo
- Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
- Leapfrog – Nathalie Molina Niño
- Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays – Lauren Hough
- Leaving Little Havana – Cecilia M. Fernandez
- Legal Heroes in the Trump Era – Tahmina Watson
- Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir – Leslie Jones
- Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story – Dame Stephanie Shirley
- Level Up Your Leadership – Deborah Naish
- Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina – Misty Copeland
- Likeable Badass – Alison Fragale PhD
- Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience – Mallory Weggemann
- Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women – Otegha Uwagba
- Living for Change – Grace Boggs
- Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir – Padma Lakshmi
- Lovely One: A Memoir – Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Mad at School – Margaret Price
- Madame Wu Chien-shiung – Tsai-chien Chiang
- Madness: A Bipolar Life – Marya Hornbacher
- Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – Anotonia Hylton
- Make Money While You Sleep – Lucy Griffiths
- Making of a Manager, The – Julie Zhuo
- Man Without a Face, The – Masha Gessen
- Manage Yourself to Lead Others – Margaret C. Andrews
- Managing Up – Mary Abbajay
- Manicurist’s Daughter, The – Susan Lieu
- Marbles – Ellen Forney
- Martina – Martina Navratilova
- Master Your Mindset – Molly Gimmel
- Me, But Better – Olga Khazan
- Mean – Myriam Gurba
- Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up – Selma Blair
- Men Explain Things to Me – Rebecca Solnit
- Men We Reaped: A Memoir – Jesmyn Ward
- Mental Detox – Cheyenne Bryant
- Metronomics – Shannon Byrne Susko
- Mexican Enough – Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Million Dollar Women – Julia Pimsleur
- Mindset: The new psychology of success – Carol Dweck
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning – Cathy Park Hong
- Miss Jessie’s – Micho Branch
- Mom and Me and Mom – Maya Angelou
- Moonshot Effect, The – Kate Purmal & Lisa Goldman
- More Myself: A Journey – Alicia Keys
- More than Enough – Elaine Welteroth
- More Than Pretty – Erica Campbell
- More than Ready – Cecilia Muñoz
- More the Same than Different – Lorraine Cannistra
- Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You, The – Lydia Fenet
- Motivation: The Ultimate Guide to Leading Your Team – Catherine Stothart
- Move: How decisive leaders execute strategy – Patti Azzarello
- Multipliers – Liz Wiseman
- Mumboss – Vicki Psarias
- Muscogee Daughter – Susan Supernaw
- My (Underground) American Dream – Julissa Arce
- My Beloved World – Sonia Sotomayor
- My Body is Not a Prayer Request – Amy Kenny
- My Life in Full – Indra Nooyi
- My Life: Queen of the Court – Serena Williams
- My Name Is Barbra – Barbra Streisand
- My Own Words – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, et. al.
- My Time to Speak – Ilia Calederon
- Native American DNA – Kim TallBear
- Neuroscience for Organizational Communication – Laura McHale
- Never Enough – Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- New IT, The – Jill Dyche
- New Social Learning, The – Marcia Conner
- Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office – Lois P. Frankel, PhD
- Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative – Ignatia Broker
- Nimble, Focused, Feisty – Sara Roberts
- Nisei Radicals – Diane C. Fujino
- No Ceiling, No Walls – Susan L. Colantuono
- No Club, The – Linda Babcock, et. al.
- No One Is Self-Made – Lakeysha Hallmon
- Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
- Not a Poster Child – Francine Falk-Allen
- Nothing is Missing – Nicole Walters
- Notorious RBG – Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
- Octavia’s Brood – adrienne maree brown (eds)
- Of Greed and Glory – Deborah G. Plant
- Once I Was You – María Hinojosa
- One Life – Megan Rapinoe and Emma Brockes
- One Week Budget, The – Tiffany Aliche
- Open Heart and Steady Mind – Yasemin Isler
- Open Leadership – Charlene Li
- Option B – Sheryl Sandberg
- Ordinary Time – Annie B. Jones
- Our Brave Foremothers – Rozella Kennedy
- Over Work – Brigid Schulte
- Own It – Sallie Krawcheck
- Own Your Phenomenal Self – Rita P. Mitchell
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
- Path Made Clear, The – Oprah Winfrey
- Perceptive: Insights for leaders who feel more, process deeply – Rachel Eve Radway
- Perfect Enough – Judy T. Dang
- Perfectly You – Mariana Atencio
- Permission to Be You – Alaina Love
- Personal Branding for Introverts – Goldie Chan
- Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs – Neri Karra Sillaman
- Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes – Phoebe Robinson
- Pleasure Activism – adrienne maree brown
- Poet Warrior: A Memoir – Joy Harjo
- Portage Lake – Maude Kegg
- Positive Obsession – Susana M. Morris
- Postcolonial Leadership, A – Hee An Choi
- Poster Child: A Memoir – Emily Rapp Black
- Power Code, The – Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
- Power Moves – Lauren McGoodwin
- Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy – Magdalena Yesil
- Power Your Purpose – Shian Chuan
- Power Your Tribe – Christine Comaford
- Powerful – Patty McCord
- Practical Leadership – Janet Ply
- Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts – Crystal Wilkinson
- Presence – Amy Cuddy
- Pressure is a Privilege – Billie Jean King
- Presumed Incompetent – Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, et. al.
- Pretty One, The: On Life, Pop Culture, and Disability – Keah Brown
- Professional Troublemaker – Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Profit from the Positive – Senia Maymin & Margaret H. Greenberg
- Push Play – Erica Glover
- Purpose Driven Leadership – Brigette Tasha Hyacinth
- Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work – Shari Dunn
- Quantum Leaps – Gloria Mayfield Bangs
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts – Susan Cain
- Quirky – Mellisa Schilling
- Quit – Annie Duke
- Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
- Radical Candor – Kim Scott
- Radical Curiosity – Priyanka Raha
- Radical Dharma – Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
- Radical: Fighting to Put Students First – Michelle Rhee
- Raising Ourselves – Velma Wallis
- Ready, Set, Manifest – Debbie Lacey
- Real Self-Care – Pooja Lakshmin
- Reality Is Broken – Jane McGonigal
- Rebel Rising – Rebel Wilson
- Recovering the Sacred – Winona LaDuke
- Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk – Sasha Lapointe
- Redefining Realness – Janet Mock
- Reimagine Equity – James Whitfield & Kristen Whitfield
- Representation Matters – Karen Ocamb
- Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change – Ellen Pao
- Resistance and Hope – Alice Wong (ed)
- Resonate – Nancy Duarte
- Responsible Marketing – Lola Bakare
- Rest Is Resistance – Tricia Hersey
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain – Catherine M. Pittman and Elizabeth M. Karle
- Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace – Minda Harts
- Rise, The – Sarah Lewis
- Rising Strong – Brene Brown
- Rising to the Challenge, My Leadership Journey – Carly Fiorina
- Risky Women – Megan Farrell Ragsdale
- Rita Moreno: A Memoir – Rita Moreno
- ROAR: How to Build a Resilient Organization – Sandy Asch
- Rookie Smarts – Liz Wiseman
- Roughly for the North – Carrie Ayagduk Ojanen
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers – Michele Gelfand
- Run to Win – Stephanie Schriock & Christina Reynolds
- Sacred Hoop, The – Paula Gunn Allen
- Safe & Sound – Anita Roach
- Salsa, Soul, and Spirit – Juana Bordas
- Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope – Amanda Nguyen
- School Days of an Indian Girl, The – Zitkala-Sa
- Secret Thoughts of Successful Women, The – Valerie Young
- See No Stranger – Valarie Kaur
- Self Made – Nely Galán / Bianca Miller-Cole
- Self-Esteem is the New Black – Monique Mays
- Selfless Leadership – Katrijn Van Oudheusden
- Seriously…I’m Kidding – Ellen Degeneres
- Serving in Silence – Margarethe Cammermeyer
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace – Nedra Glover Tawwab
- Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide – Cady Coleman
- Shatterproof – Tasha Eurich
- She Thinks Like a Boss – Jemma Roedel
- Sheer Determination – Kay Hirai
- Shift, The – Lynda Gratton
- Show Your Work – Jane Bozarth
- Show Your Worth – Shelmina Babai Abji
- Signals are Talking, The – Amy Webb
- Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases – Camilla A. Montoya, et. al.
- Silent Master, The – Tae Yun Kim
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
- Sit Down to Rise Up – Shelly Tygielski
- Sitting Pretty – Rebekah Taussig
- Sleep Groove – Olivia Walch
- Slide-ology – Nancy Duarte
- Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use – Amanda Seales
- Small Victories – Anne Lamott
- So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir – Ashley C. Ford
- Somewhere Inside – Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
- Soul of a Woman, The – Isabel Allende
- Soul Solution, The – Vanessa Loder
- Sound Is Not Enough: The Art of Captioning – Svetlana Kouznetsova
- Source of Self-Regard, The – Toni Morrison
- Speak Up: Breaking the Glass Ceiling at CBS News – Linda S. Mason
- Speaking Truth to Power – Anita Hill
- Speedbumps: Flooring it through Hollywood – Teri Garr
- Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence – Nicola I. Campbell
- Spritzing to Success – Annette Green
- Stand Out – Dorie Clark
- Staring: How We Look – Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- Step into Your Moxie – Alexia Vernon
- Still life with Rice – Helie Lee
- Strategize to Win – Carla Harris
- Strengths Paradox, The – Julie Rennecker, PhD
- Strip Naked and Re-dress With Happiness – Maria Hocking
- Strong Ground – Brene Brown
- Stumbling Towards Inclusion – Priya Nalkur
- Success Is A Side Effect – Moe Anderson / Monica F. Anderson
- Success Never Smelled So Sweet – Lisa Price & Hilary Beard
- Successful to Burnt Out – Karletta Abianac
- Successful Women Think Differently – Valorie Burton
- Survive, Reset, Thrive – Rebecca Homkes
- Survival Guide for Gen X Leaders, The – Amy Morrison
- Surviving Autocracy – Masha Gessen
- Sustainable Ambition – Kathy Oneto
- Swimming with Sharks in Dark Waters – Athene Brinson
- SwitchPoints – Judy Johnson et al
- Take Charge of your Brand – Guisselle Nuñez
- Tales of Ticasuk – Ticasuk Emily Ivanoff Brown
- Tao of Raven, The – Ernestine Hayes
- Teaching to Transgress – bell hooks
- Teaming – Amy Edmondson
- Tell Me Everything – Elizabeth Strout
- Thanks for the Feedback – Sheila Heen & Douglas Stone
- That’s What She Said – Joanne Lipman
- The 100 Year Life – Lynda Gratton
- The 1619 Project – Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The 5 Resets – Aditi Nerurkar
- The 5x CEO – Samantha Allison and Taavo Godtfredsen
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom – Suze Orman
- The 9 types of leadership – Beatrice Chestnut
- The Ambition Trap – Amina AlTai
- The Answer is a Question – Laura Ashley-Timms and Dominic Ashley-Timms
- The Anxious Achiever – Morra Aarons-Mele
- The Art of Authenticity – Karissa Thacker
- The Art of Caring Leadership – Heather Younger
- The Art of Change Leadership – Cheryl Cran
- The Art of Gathering – Priya Parker
- The Art of Quiet Influence – Jocelyn Davis
- The Asian American Achievement Paradox – Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
- The Attitudes of Success – Sarah J. Collins
- The Barefoot Executive – Carrie Wilkerson
- The Big Life – Ann Shoket
- The Black Widow’s Guide to Killer Pool – Jeanette Lee
- The Black Woman in Leadership’s Survival Guide – Becca Bakre & Ashley Gray
- The Black Woman Millionaire – Dr. Venus Opal Reese
- The Boldly Inclusive Leader – Minette Norman
- The Book of Awesome Black Americans – Monique jones
- The Bravery Effect – Jill Schulman
- The Buena Salud Guide to Understanding Depression – Jane Delgado
- The Change Masters – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- The Confidence Code – Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
- The Confidence Game – Maria Konnikova
- The Cooked Seed: A Memoir – Anchee Min
- The Cost of Living – Deborah Levy
- The Creative Way Forward – Jen Martin
- The Crossroads of Should and Must – Elle Luna
- The Culture Map – Erin Meyer
- The Death of Truth – Michiko Kakutani
- The Demotivated Employee – Cathy Bush and Tara Peters
- The Disability Experience – Hannalora Leavitt
- The Diversity Advantage – Ruchika Tulshyan
- The E Suite – Tina Kuhn and Neal Frick
- The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir – Samantha Power
- The Empathy Dilemma – Maria Ross
- The End of Competitive Advantage – Rita Gunther McGrath
- The Endurance Leader – Ann Bowers-Evangelista
- The Equality Machine – Orly Lobel
- The Expert Generalist – Monique Lecomte et al
- The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility – Marilyn Gist
- The Far Away Brothers – Lauren Markham
- The Fearless Organization – Amy C. Edmondson
- The Female Advantage – Sally Helgesen
- The Female Vision – Sally Helgesen & Julie Johnson
- The Fix – Michelle P. King
- The Flamethrowers – Rachel Kushner
- The Future Workplace Experience – Jeanne Meister & Karen Mulcahy
- The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader – Gloria Anzaldua
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Good Boss – Kate Eberle Walker
- The Gray Rhino – Michele Wucker
- The Grit Factor – Shannon Huffman Polson
- The Hard Parts – Oksana Masters
- The Heart of Leadership – Pauline E. Wallner-Brinsley
- The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
- The Holy Intimacy of Strangers – Sarah York
- The Hope Driven Leader – Libby Gill
- The Inclusion Equation – Serena H. Huang
- The Injustice Never Leaves You – Monica Muñoz Martinez
- The Insiders guide to culture change – Siobhan McHale
- The Inspiration Code – Kristi Hedges
- The Invisible Revolution – Nicola Huelin
- The language of emotional intelligence – Jeanne Segal
- The Languages of Leadership – Wendy Born
- The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish
- The Lazy Genius Way – Kendra Adachi
- The Leadership Evolution – Joan Fletcher
- The Leadership Uprising – Lisa Saucedo and Nathan Johnson
- The Leadership We Need – Maria Brinck
- The Learning Mindset – Katja Schipperheijn
- The Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
- The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama
- The Likeability Trap – Alicia Menendez
- The Little Black Book of Success – Elaine Meryl Brown, et. al.
- The Long Game – Dorie Clark
- The Lost Daughter – Elena Ferrante
- The Loudest Guest – Amy Silver
- The Making of a Manager – Julie Zhuo
- The Managers Path – Camille Fournier
- The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know – Minda Harts
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl – Issa Rae
- The Moonshot Effect – Kate Purmal & Lisa Goldman
- The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self Care – Anna Borges
- The myth of the nice girl – Fran Hauser
- The Narrowing – Alexandra Shaker
- The Next American Revolution – Grace Lee Boggs
- The Next Day – Melinda French Gates
- The Next Generation of Women Leaders – Selena Rezvani
- The Obsessive Joy of Autism – Julia Bascom
- The One Week Budget – Tiffany Aliche
- The Path Made Clear – Oprah Winfrey
- The Power of Deliberate Creative Teams – Amy Climer
- The Power of Latino Leadership – Juana Bordas
- The Power of Nice – Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
- The Power of the Learning Mindset – Lilian Ajayi Ore
- The Power of Women at Work – Sallie Krawcheck
- The pretty one – Keah Brown
- The Purpose Pivot – Melissa Gonzalez
- The Race Whisperer – Melanye Price
- The Road to Someplace Better – Lillian Lincoln Lambert
- The Savvy Working Mom – Whitnee Hawthorne
- The Seismic Shift in You – Michelle Johnston and Marshall Goldsmith
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Shape of Change – Jennifer Brown
- The Should Syndrome – Karen B. See
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
- The Stargazer – Katie P. Desiderio and Michael G. Frino
- The Sun Still Shines – Jodi Orgill Brown
- The Tao of Self-Confidence – Sheena Yap Chan
- The Ten Pillars of Success – Josephine Perry
- The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems – Katie Best
- The Threat and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
- The Truths We Hold – Kamala Harris
- The Turquoise Ledge – Leslie Silko
- The Undocumented Americans – Karla Conejo Villavicencio
- The Urgent Life – Bozoma Saint John
- The Virtuous Circle – Gaby Natale
- The Wake Up – Michelle Mijung Kim
- The White Album – Joan Didion
- The Win-Win Workplace – Angela Jackson
- The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Women of Microsoft – Miri Rodriguez
- The Working Woman’s Handbook – Phoebe Lovatt
- The World I Live In – Helen Keller
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
- Thick Face, Black Heart – Chin-Ning Chu
- Think Like a Negotiator – Eldonna Lewis Fernandez
- Thinking in Bets – Anne Duke
- This Isn’t Working – Meghan French Dunbar
- This Little World – Shelly Kurtz
- Thrive – Gina Anderson / Arianna Huffington
- Thriving in the Fight – Denise Padin Collazo
- Thriving Talent – Aoife O’Brien
- Through the Dark – Yolanda Nava
- Time Wise – Amantha Imber
- Too Late to Die Young – Harriet McBryde Johnson
- Tough Women Adventure Stories – Jenny Tough (ed)
- Transformational Consumer, The – Tara-Nicholle Nelson
- Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga – Gail Parker
- Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino
- Triumph in the Trenches – Elona Washington
- Truth Be Told – Beverley McLachlin
- Truth or Dare – Starhawk
- Unapologetically Ambitious – Shellye Archambeau
- Unbowed – Wangari Maathai
- Uncompete – Ruchika T. Malhotra
- UnderMind – Tanya Chernova
- Undrowned – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Unfinished Business – Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Unfiltered and Unapologetic – Judy McCutcheon
- Unfiltered: Proven Strategies to Start and Grow Your Business – Rachel Pedersen
- Unlearning Silence – Elaine Lin Hering
- Unleashed – Frances Frei & Anne Morriss
- Unrig the Game – Vanessa Priya Daniel
- Unstoppable Entrepreneurs – Lori Rosenkopf
- Unstressable – Alice Law and Mo Gawdat
- Unstuck – Lia Garvin
- Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships – Temple Grandin
- Uplifted – Geena Chen
- Upper Hand – Sherrell Dorsey
- Upsetting the Table – Robbie Hardy
- Validation – Caroline Fleck
- Valley Girls – Kelley Steven-Waiss
- Values – Dr. Betty Uribe
- Venture Everywhere – Jenny Fielding
- Visible – May Busch
- Visionary Women – Andrea Barnet
- Waist-High in the World – Nancy Mairs
- Walk Through Fire: A Memoir – Sheila Johnson
- We Are So Much More – Aster Angagaw
- We are bridges – Cassandra lane
- We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Millionaires – Rachel Rodgers
- We Will Not Cancel Us – adrienne maree brown
- Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil
- Werk 101 – Koereyelle DuBose
- What Doesn’t Kill You – Tessa Miller
- What I Know for Sure – Oprah Winfrey
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 – Tina Seelig
- What Will it Take to Make a Woman President? – Marianne Schnall
- What Your Comfort Costs Us – M. Gabriela Alcalde
- When I Was Puerto Rican – Esmeralda Santiago
- When the Miracle Drops – Jessica Dupart
- When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
- When We’re in Charge – Amanda Litman
- When Women Lead – Julie Boorstin
- Where the Past Begins – Amy Tan
- Where You Are is Not Who You Are – Ursula Burns
- White Girls – Hilton Als
- White Magic – Elissa Wshuta
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- Whiteness Visible – Valerie Babb
- Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? – Alyssa Mastromonaco
- Who We Are Becoming Matters – Norma Wong
- Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling
- Wild and Wise Women Around the World – Bev Adamo
- Wildflower: A Memoir – Aurora James
- Wiping the War Paint off the Lens – Beverly Singer
- Wisdom of the Path – Yasmine Cheyenne
- Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher
- Without a Doubt – Surbhi Sarna
- WOLFPACK – Abby Wambach
- Women and Leadership – Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Women in Tech – Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack
- Women Make Great Leaders – Jill Griffin
- Women of Color in Tech – Susanne Tedrick
- Women with Money – Jean Chatzky
- Women’s Ways of Knowing – Mary Field Belenky, et. al.
- Work Smart Do More – Jan Lehman
- Worthy – Jada Pinkett Smith
- WOW Woman of Worth: Moms in Business – Christine Awram
- WOW Woman of Worth: Pandemic! Stories of Purpose, Passion & Power – Christine Awram
- Writings on the Wall – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Year of the Tiger – Alice Wong
- Year of Yes – Shonda Rhimes
- You Are a Badass at Making Money – Jen Sincero
- You Are a Mogul – Tiffany Pham
- You Are Before the World – Tara Jaye Frank
- You Don’t Have to Like Me – Alida Nugent
- You Got This! – Maya Penn
- You Sound Like a White Girl – Julissa Arce
- Your Next Level Life – Karen Arrington
- Zami: A new spelling of my name – Audre Lorde






