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Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele

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

The Truth about Keeping Secrets

Idaho

Motheater

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause

Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation

First Light

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

What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind

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

Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense

Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

Bad Animals

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Re Jane

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies

Moo

The Little Friend

Everything I Wish I Could Tell You about Midlife: A Woman’s Guide to Health in the Body You Actually Have

Tully

Accordion Crimes

The PMDD Phenomenon

Protecting My Peace: Embracing Inner Beauty & Ancestral Power

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

Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning

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

Candelaria

Broken Monsters

No One Gets to Fall Apart

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

Once upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Girls and Their Cats

Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Releasing the Mother Load: How to Carry Less and Enjoy Motherhood More

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free

I Hope This Finds You Well

Modern Poetry

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

Did I Ever Tell You?

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems

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

The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s

The Signature of All Things

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying

My Time to Stand

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

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

No Place to Bury the Dead

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Between Two Trailers

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

American Ending

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography

Da Baddest

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Rabbit Cake

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

When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way

Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble

Headshot

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

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

Connie: A Memoir

The Rivals

The Verifiers

The Best American Short Stories 2024

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

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

One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary

The Kids Are All Right: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World

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

Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It

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

Didion and Babitz

Flint Kill Creek

Nora Ephron at the Movies

Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy

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

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Alice James

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

I Love You: Recipes from the Heart

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Solis

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

Love Can’t Feed You

The World She Edited

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

Have You Seen This Girl

The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy

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

frank: sonnets

Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve

Unruly: A Guide to Reclaiming Your True Self

shine your icy crown

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

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

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

This Girl’s a Killer

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense

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

The Monsters We Defy

The Witches of New York

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

The Wedding People

Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems

Turn Your Pain Into Art

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales

American Rapture

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

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

Lifeform

When Darkness Loves Us

Butcher

Ten Days in a Mad-House

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

Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks

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

From Here to the Great Unknown

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

Rainbow Black

Beyond Self-Defense: How to Say No, Set Boundaries, and Reclaim Your Agency—An Empowering Guide to Safety, Risk Assessment, and Personal Protection

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

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

We Need No Wings

A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve

Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration

The Mighty Red

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

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

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

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Judas Goat: Poems

All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere: Stories

Site Fidelity: Stories

The Word Pretty

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

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

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

Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir

A Reason to See You Again

What in the World?!: A Southern Woman’s Guide to Laughing at Life’s Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings

Hatchet Girls

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Over the Influence

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Misinterpretation

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

The Shaman’s Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery

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