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The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life

King of the Armadillos

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Black Girl, Call Home

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Emergency

Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Women of the Post

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Ripe

Temple Folk

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Banyan Moon

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

The Summer of Songbirds

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Not Quite a Disaster After All

The Life of the Mind

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

The Say So

Georgia O’Keeffe

Meaningful Work: Stories

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

I Am Ayah: The Way Home

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

Between Two Moons

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

A Quitter’s Paradise

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Vagablonde

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

American Seoul

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love

How to Be Eaten

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Nothing Special

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Horse Barbie

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

These Silent Woods

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

Forty Years in the Wilderness

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney

Paper Names

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Rogue Justice

While Justice Sleeps

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

The First Lady of World War II

Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

New York in the Thirties

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair

Wildflower: A Memoir

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Chita: A Memoir

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Dykette

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Diversifying the Courts: Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

With or Without You

Homebodies

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

Distortions

Memphis

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

Ordinary Notes

Horse

March

Demon Copperhead

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

House of Cotton

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Sum of Us

Women Are The Fiercest Creatures

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Spectra

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Daughters of Nantucket

Brown Girls

A Reunion of Ghosts

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Pomegranate

Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

I Am Debra Lee

Crying in the Bathroom

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

A Country You Can Leave

The Woman With the Cure

The Crane Husband

The God of Endings

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Hoop Muses: An Insider’s Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women’s) Game

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Big Swiss

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Natural Beauty: A Novel

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

The Next New Syrian Girl

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Wilful Blindness

A Manual for How to Love Us

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Homegirls and Handgrenades

Take What You Need

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Border Vista: Poems

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

We Play Ourselves

Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond

They’re Going to Love You

No Choice

You Must Be This Happy to Enter

Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Ain’t I a Woman?

Lorna Simpson Collages:

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper