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State of Paradise

Women and Children First

Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Grown Women

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Carson McCullers: A Life

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Woman on Trial

American Girls: One Woman’s Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Perfume & Pain

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

The Bullet Swallower

The Dollar

California a Slave State

A History of Half-Birds: Poems

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

The Best That You Can Do

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity

Alice Sadie Celine

The Virgins

The Names of All the Flowers

The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

River East, River West

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

The Book of Ayn

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Goldenseal

Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

Your First Million: Why You Don’t Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind

Saturn’s Return to New York

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Fat Off, Fat On

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Time

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

The Wildest Sun

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Streetwise

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

Love and Money, Sex and Death

Wash Day Diaries

Whore of New York: A Confession

Janis: Her Life and Music

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty

Broken Horses

Lee Krasner: A Biography

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Brutalities: A Love Story

Little Girl Lost

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Enough

Your Voice in My Head

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Denim Diaries

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Catching the Light

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Subway Art

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Ana Turns

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Company: Stories

Dirtbag: Essays

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

The Wordy Shipmates

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Murder by Degrees

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Golden Gate

Holler, Child: Stories

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

Bright Young Women

Above the Salt

Duende

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

Class: A Memoir

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

My Home is Far Away: An Autobiographical Novel

It’s About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

Let Us Descend

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

A Well-Behaved Woman

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Like a Hole in the Head

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

My Name Is Barbra

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

The Thinking Reed

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Behind The Shoulder Pads – Tales I Tell My Friends

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Absolution

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Straw Dogs of the Universe

The Reformatory

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

The Dead Take the A Train

The Old Maid

Good Women

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

All You Have to Do Is Call

The Wind Knows My Name

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

One Blood

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

The World According to Joan Didion

Turn, Magic Wheel