International Women’s Day 2022: Reading Recommendations

International Women’s Day 2022: Reading Recommendations

International Women’s Day 2022 is on March 8th. This year’s global theme is #BreakTheBias and in Canada, Women Inspiring Women. We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult, YA and children’s books that celebrate and give voice to women.

International Women’s Day 2022 is on March 8th. This year’s global theme is #BreakTheBias and in Canada, Women Inspiring Women. We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult, YA and children’s books that celebrate and give voice to women.

March 8, 2022

Adult Books

Shared by Attila Berki, Quill & Quire‘s acting review editor

 

Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid

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The Unconventional Nancy Ruth by Ramona Lumpkin

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Spílǝxm: A Weaving of Recovery, 
Resilience, and Resurgence by Nicola I. Campbell

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Seconds Out: Women and Fighting by Alison Deans

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Undersong by Kathleen Winter

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Children’s Books

Shared by Inderjit Deogun, Quill & Quire‘s books for young people editor

 

Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas by Sam Maggs; and Kendra Wells, ill.

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The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire

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Her Epic Adventure: 25 Daring Women Who Inspire a Life Less Ordinary by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston and Salini Perera, ill.

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Fired Up about Consent by Sarah Ratchford

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The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad

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For more of our themed Reading Recommendations curated by the editors of Quill & Quire:

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