Women's Nonfiction: A Guide to Reading Interests

Jessica Zellers, a public librarian with extensive experience in book reviewing, has created a useful readers' advisory‐style guide to non‐fiction works by and about women. She explains in the preface that her tastes in fiction run to fantasy and horror, and that she does not read much fiction by women. With her academic background in women's studies, she remains interested in learning about women's lives, but she could not find any readers advisory tools for non‐fiction. So, she took matters into her own hands and wrote just that source. It is a great fit for Real Stories, a new...