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Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America’s Imperiled Forests

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Tell Me Something Good

Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education

The Girls of Good Fortune

Radicals, Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930

Rich Girl Nation: Taking Charge of Our Financial Futures

Attic

How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess

Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Wake the Wild Creatures

Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance – A Memoir

The Blurry Years

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Look at Me

The Unmapping

Notes on Infinity

Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career

Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War

Girls with Long Shadows

Summer Sisters

I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

Toxicology

I’ll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body

What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

Songs of No Provenance

A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb

Park Avenue

On Immunity: An Inoculation

Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

Gilded Mountain

The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune

The Foreign Student

Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood

Clam Down: A Metamorphosis

Meet Me at the Crossroads

The Listeners

Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

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

So We Can Glow: Stories

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution

The Stalker

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

Bard, Kinetic

Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

The True Happiness Company

The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club

Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches

Nightshining

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman

Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Desperate Characters

The Wanderer’s Curse: A Memoir

The Lost Voice: A Memoir

Speaking of Feminism: Today’s Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women’s Movement

The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

Home

Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Sky Daddy

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

My First Book

Second Life

Sleep

Awake in the Floating City

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table

State Champ

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems

The Missing Kidney and other stories: And Other Stories

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

This Is Your Mother: A Memoir

Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

The Road to Tender Hearts

The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Green River, Running Red

Climbing in Heels

Bee Reaved

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

My Name Is Emilia del Valle

The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories

Haunted Houses

Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction

Shopgirls: A Novel

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

Show, Don’t Tell: A Writer, Her Teacher, and the Power of Sharing Our Stories

Understanding Octavia E. Butler

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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Uptown Girl: A Memoir

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

The Solace of Open Spaces

Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy

Black Swans: Stories

LIVEBLOG

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

Shooting Out the Lights

Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe

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