President’s Bookshelf Recommendations

2019 – 2021 – Linda Friend: The Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir by interplanetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton

2021 – 2021 – Sally Kalin: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

2019 – 2021 – Cindy Hall: Woman of No Importance, the Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WW2’s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell

2017 – 2019 – Victoria Sanchez: Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo (Her memoir/autobiography),  and Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community ed. by Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe, Words like Thunder by Lois Beardslee

2015 – 2017 – Alison Franklin: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thinmesh

2013 – 2017 – Billie Willits:  She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton

2011 – 2015 – Charlene Harrison:  The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack

2010 – 2013 – Candace Davison: Rocket girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan

2007 – 2011 – Talat Azhar:  The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at home, war abroad by Tariq Ali

2005 – 2009 – Jeanne Bullers Weber:  A History of Fashion and Costume. Early America, vol. 4 by Paige Weber

2001 – 2003 – Chriss Alynda Schultz: Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

2001 – 2022 – Beth Ann Christopolous: Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber

1999 – 2001 – Dr. Anne Kusener Nelsen: What Every Successful Woman Knows by Janice Reals Ellig

1999 – 2001 Suzanne McCrae Kerlin: The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian

1997 – 1999 – Cynthia Sue Ingold & Jacqueline Reisert Esposito: Betty Friedan and The Making of The Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz

1993 – 1997 – Suzanne McCrae Kerlin: Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military by Linda Francke

1993 – 1995 – Nellie Girvin Boyle: Enigma by Robert Harris

1991 – 1993 – Sarah Wayman Kalin: The Pennsylvania Barn by Robert F. Ensminger

1991 – 1992 – Vonna McMillen Jansma: Lives of Career Women by Frances M. Carp

1990 – 1991 – Gail Alberini-Emmett: Sister’s Choice by Elaine Showalter

1989 – 1991 – Jean Brown Forster: Judevine by David Budbill

1987 – 1989 – Dr. Mary M. Dupuis: S.O.S. by Patricia Albjerg Graham

1985 – 1987 – Nancy Lewis Strother: The Great Book of Post Impressionism by Diane Kelder

1983 – 1985 – Dr. Linda C. Higginson: Grand Obsession by Rosalynd Pflaum

1981 – 1983 – Dr. Linda C. Higginson: Women of Academe by Nadya Aisenberg

1979 – 1981 – Jane McCormick Lewis: Our Hidden Heritage: Pennsylvania Women in History

1977 – 1979 – Elizabeth Kevin Vogely: How to Be Your Own Lawyer (Sometimes) by Walker L. Kantrowitz

1975 – 1977 – Sarah Ratcliff Godbey: Recreation, Park and Leisure Services by Geoffrey Godbey

1973 – 1975 – Trudy Foner Levine: Elana Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia 1646-1684 by Nicola Fusco

1971 – 1973 – Ingrid Pearson Holtzman: Cities of Destiny by Arnold Toynbee, editor

1969 – 1971 – Marjorie Weick Dunaway: Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1967 – 1969 – Dr. Marian B. Davison: Harrison Gray Otis: The Urbane Federalist by Samuel Eliot Morison

1965 – 1967 – Evelyn Chostner Marboe: Living with Sex by Richard Hettlinger

1963 – 1965 – Ann Graybill Cook: The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison

1961 – 1963 – Louise Young Tukey: The American College edited by Nevitt Sanford

1959 – 1961 – Dr. E-tu Zen Sun: The Insecurity of Nations by Charles Yost

1957 – 1959 – Dr. Dorothy H. Veon: The Discipline of Power by George Ball

1955 – 1957 – Adelaide Hagerty Kendig: The Comprehensive High School by James B. Conant

1953 – 1955 – Evelyn M. Hensel: Disraeli by Robert Blake

1951 – 1953 – Dr. Pearl H. Guest: The Human Dimension by Hadley Cantril

1949 – 1951 – Mary Alice Zarger O’Brien: Games People Play by Dr. Eric Berne

1947 – 1949 – Edith Huntington Anderson: The Family by Margaret Mead and Ken Hyman

1945 – 1947 – Laura Mansfield Davis: George Bellows: Painter of America by Charles Hill Morgan

1943 – 1945 – Mabel E. Kirk: The Harding Era by Robert K. Murray

1941 – 1943 – Abbie Henby Cromer: The American People and China by A.T. Steele

1939 – 1941 – Helen Kalbfus Frear: New York Proclaimed by Victor Sawdon Pritchett

1937 – 1939 – Anna Fox Martin: The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

1935 – 1937 – Helen Karns Champlin: Merchants and Masterpieces by Calvin Tompkins

1933 – 1935 – Winifred Toles Hurrell: Before Mark Twain by John Francis McDermott

1931 – 1933 – Dr. Jean Downey Amberson: New York Proclaimed by Victor Sawdon Pritchett

1929 – 1931 – Mary Drumond Dengler: The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison

1927 – 1929 – Dr. Lucretia V. T. Simmons: Story of Education by Carrol Atkinson

1925 – 1927 Marguerite Heeman Newman: Clarification of the Monetary Standard by Will E. Matson

1922 – 1925 – Louise B. Moss: Prize Stories of 1968: The O. Henry Awards by William Abrahams

1921 – 1922 – Viola M. Tomhave: Richard Wagner by Robert Gutman

1919 – 1921 – Dr. Helen Duess Hill: Academic Women by Jesse Bernard

1918 – 1919 – Carolyn Buckhout Edwards: The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw by Warren S. Smith

1917 – 1918 – Emma Yarnell Vorse: Rum, Religion, and Votes: 12938 Reexamined by Ruth G. Silva

1916 – 1917 – Harriet Lyndon Cowell: Human Revolution by Ashley Montagu