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What’s Done in Darkness

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

On My Own: A Memoir

Again, Only More Like You

Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror

Such a Good Mom

Tilt

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family

The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

Louise in Love

Be My Baby: A Memoir

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon: Poems

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Apology for Want

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

A Protest History of the United States

A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Heartwood

Of My Own Making: A Memoir

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin

Jane: A Murder

When I Grow up: A Memoir

Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think)

We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction: Essays

Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Matriarch: A Memoir

Wonderblood

Tender Buttons: Objects

The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood’s Asian Superstar

Fish Tales

Hellions: Stories

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams

Bitter Texas Honey

Atavists: Stories

Happy Land

No One Has Seen It All: Lessons for Living Well from Nearly a Century of Good Taste

I Was Told There’d Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood through the Power of Connection

Audition

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics

Unf*ck Your Parenting: How to Raise Feminist, Compassionate, Responsible, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids

Follow Me

Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire

Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

The Hearing Test

A/S/L

Boat Baby: A Memoir

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

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

Rabbit Moon

Nothing Bad Happens Here

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

Free: My Search for Meaning

Democracy

Counting Backwards

Blue Nights

The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree

Bad Nature

All That Life Can Afford

Cat’s People

Covert Joy: Selected Stories

Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

Firstborn

I’ll Have What She’s Having

Paradise Logic

Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life – And My Fight to Get it Back

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Barbara

Behind the Waterline

Animal Instinct

This Book Will Bury Me

Bat Eater

Twelve Stories by American Women

Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany

In My Remaining Years

Killer Potential

O Sinners!

Rihanna Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Rihanna

Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies

Moving Beyond Broke: The Power of Perseverance in Personal Finance

The Blazing World

Heartburn

Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

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

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

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

Tehrangeles

Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep

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

The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

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

Ask Me Again

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

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

All Our Tomorrows

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

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

Counting Backwards

The Antidote

The Shipping News

Liquid: A Love Story

One Step Forward

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

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer

The Tell: A Memoir

Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays

Harlem Rhapsody

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

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

The Strange Case of Jane O.

Right-Wing Women

Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays

Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

Shallow Waters

Styles of Joy: A Feel-Good Framework for Rediscovering Joy (with a Twist!)

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

The Anatomy of Dreams

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

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Huma

Nothing Serious

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

Say Everything: A Memoir

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

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

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

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

After the Flood

Sirens & Muse

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

Feminism in the United States

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton

The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight

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

I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

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

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

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel

Memorial Days: A Memoir

More of This World or Maybe Another

Sociopath: A Memoir

How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out

Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home

Prep

Perfect Is Boring (and It Tastes Like Kale): Finding Belonging and Purpose Without Changing Who You Are

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

Lion

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture

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

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs

Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

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

Mutual Interest

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Good Dirt

What Are We Doing Here?

Unlock Your Aesthetic: A Visual Guide to Find Your Vibe

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

Housekeeping

A Gorgeous Excitement

Nightwood

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

The Motherload