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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

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