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O Sinners!

Everybody Says It’s Everything

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Woodworking

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister’s Wooing; Oldtown Folks

Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture

Counting Backwards

The Antidote

Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books

One Step Forward

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl

The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army

Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

The Tell: A Memoir

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

Deep Cuts

The Strange Case of Jane O.

Right-Wing Women

Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays

Shallow Waters

The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom

Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

Eligible

Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope

A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

Prep

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

Too Soon

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop

I’ll Give You a Reason: Stories

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Who I Always Was: A Memoir

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

Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1

A Gorgeous Excitement

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace

The Motherload

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor

The Truth about Keeping Secrets

Idaho

Motheater

The Last True Poets of the Sea

Out of the Girls’ Room and Into the Night: Stories

Sweet Fury

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Lies on the Serpent’s Tongue

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

Re Jane

Moo

The Little Friend

Tully

Accordion Crimes

I’m Not Yelling: A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace

Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership: Uncomplicating Cars for All of Us

One Way Back

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Men

Broken Monsters

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

The Signature of All Things

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying

My Time to Stand

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

Between Two Trailers

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

American Ending

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

Headshot

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Connie: A Memoir

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

Blue Light Hours

The Housekeeper’s Secret

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Flint Kill Creek

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Solis

The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond

Love Can’t Feed You

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found

frank: sonnets

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

What It Meant to Survive

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

This Girl’s a Killer

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation

The Monsters We Defy

The Witches of New York

The Wedding People

Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales

Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

From Here to the Great Unknown

Rainbow Black

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Pieces of You

The Mighty Red

The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Site Fidelity: Stories

Tiny Threads

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast

One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother’s Story

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

Countermelodies: A Memoir in Sonata Form

A Reason to See You Again

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Misinterpretation

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Not So Sorry: Abusers, False Apologies, and the Limits of Forgiveness

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

To the Bone

The Mesmerist

She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

Exposure

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

A History of Hazardous Objects

You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America

First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

My Men

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

We’re Alone

Madwoman

Lovely One

I Would Meet You Anywhere

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

My Side of the River

Private Equity

White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists

You Get What You Pay For: Essays