International Women's Day 2024

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Check out these amazing books by some of our powerhouse inspirational women authors.

Celebrate and embrace equity this International Women's Day with these books for, by, and about inspirational wāhine

Books by inspirational local wāhine
The Space Between
Lauren Keenan
Fungi of Aotearoa
Liv Sisson
Bird Child and Other Stories
Patricia Grace
There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner)
Beautiful Chaos
Jessica Urlichs
Laughing at the Dark
Barbara Else
The Night She Fell
Eileen Merriman
Bite Back
Genevieve Mora
The Deck
Fiona Farrell
Adventures with Emilie
Victoria Bruce
How to Loiter In a Turf War
Coco Solid
Aroha
Hinemoa Elder
Kind
Stephanie Johnson
Pacific Arts Aotearoa
Lana Lopesi
How to get Fired
Evana Belich
Grand
Noelle McCarthy
Potiki
Patricia Grace
Your Money, Your Future
Frances Cook
The Captive Wife
Fiona Kidman
Stop Surviving Start Fighting
Jazz Thornton
The Denniston Rose
Jenny Pattrick
The Mirror Book
Charlotte Grimshaw
The Queen's Wife
Joanne Drayton
Gabriel's Bay
Catherine Robertson

Books to read this International Women's Day
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Other Bridget
Rachael Johns
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Dr Julie Smith
The Spy Coast
Tess Gerritsen
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The Light We Carry
Michelle Obama
Wifedom
Anna Funder
She’s on the Money: The award-winning #1 finance bestseller
Victoria Devine
Piglet
Lottie Hazell
Foul Play
Fiona McIntosh
Happy Place
Emily Henry
Lonely For You Only
Monica Murphy
Betrayal
Lesley Pearse
None of This is True
Lisa Jewell

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