Whether you are interested in women in front of the camera or the women commanding the camera, we’ve got some books to recommend for you!
Nonfiction
- What They Don’t Teach You at Film School by Camille Landau and Tiare White
- Penny Marshall: An Unauthorized Biography by Lawrence Crown
- Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
- Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
- I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer
- I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
- Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
- It’s Always Something by Gilda Radner
- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) by Betty White
- You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey
- Women Who Make Movies by Sharon Smith
- Then Again by Diane Keaton
- Watch Me: A Memoir by Anjelica Huston
- Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
- Streisand: Her Life by James Spada
- In Pieces by Sally Field
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
- Book by Whoopi Goldberg
- The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation by Melissa Rivers
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler
- Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
- Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach
- Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life by Charlies Affron
- A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn and Wendy Holden
- The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction by Linda Gray
- Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
- Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde by Emily Heckman and Jennie Garth
- The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché by Alice Guy Blaché, Roberta Blaché, Simone Blaché, and Anthony Slide
- Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
- From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell
- Life Is A Banquet by Rosalind Russell
- Tippi: A Memoir by Tippi Hedren
- Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream by Ronald L. Davis
- Now by Lauren Bacall
- Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans
- Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
- Find Me by Rosie O’Donnell
- This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
- A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story by Annette Funicello and Patricia Romanowski
- The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood by Naomi McDougall Jones
Films/Documentaries
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blaché (2018)
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