The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

7 best books like The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Kate Moore): The Great Alone, Where the Crawdads Sing, Before We Were Yours, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Finding Dorothy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

The Great Alone

Author

Kristin Hannah

Alaska, 1974.
Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family...

Where the Crawdads Sing

Author	Delia Owens
ISBN	0735219117

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has...

Before We Were Yours

Author	Lisa Wingate
ISBN	0425284689

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from...

The Lost Girls of Paris

Author	Pam Jenoff
ISBN	0778330273

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Author	Kim Michele Richardson
ISBN	1492671525

In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...

Finding Dorothy

Author	Elizabeth Letts
ISBN	0525622101

A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud--from the family's hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.

Maud...

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

Author	Liza Mundy
ISBN	0316439894

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small...