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Women Are The Fiercest Creatures

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

Morning Pages

See: Loss. See Also: Love.

Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love

Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration

Daughters of Chaos

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

All Fours

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Why Labelle Matters

You’re Safe Here

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Financially Lit!: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Level Up Your Dinero & Become Financially Poderosa

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Women

Bear

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

Joining the Resistance

The Coin

youthjuice

Survival of the Thickest

Housemates

Love Is a Burning Thing

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

The Lady Waiting

State of Paradise

Women and Children First

Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

I Curse You with Joy

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Grown Women

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War: From Vogue to Dachau

Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Uncultured

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Carson McCullers: A Life

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Woman on Trial

American Girls: One Woman’s Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

Grief Is for People

Girls Just Wanna Have Impact Funds: A Feminist Guide to Changing the World with Your Money

Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

Perfume & Pain

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

The Bullet Swallower

Family Family

California a Slave State

Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion Dollar Business

Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

A History of Half-Birds: Poems

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Ambition Monster

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

The Best That You Can Do

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Kittentits

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Why Solange Matters

The Art of Small Talk

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)

Sunset Gun – Poems by Dorothy Parker

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood

Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity

Piece by Piece

Alice Sadie Celine

The Virgins

We Run the Tides

The Names of All the Flowers

The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

Your First Million: Why You Don’t Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind

Saturn’s Return to New York

Familia: A Riveting and Unforgettable Novel of Sisterhood

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Animals Strike Curious Poses

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Fat Off, Fat On

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Time

If I Should Say I Have Hope

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

Here in the Dark

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Streetwise

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother

Wash Day Diaries

We All Want Impossible Things

Whore of New York: A Confession

Pity the Beast

Janis: Her Life and Music

Broken Horses

Lee Krasner: A Biography

Find It in Everything

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Brutalities: A Love Story

Little Girl Lost

A Matter of Appearance

Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

Enough

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Denim Diaries

Catching the Light

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

The Vixen

Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

Subway Art

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Ana Turns

The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Company: Stories

Wrong Way

Dirtbag: Essays

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Wandering through Life: A Memoir

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Golden Gate

Holler, Child: Stories

Bright Young Women

Above the Salt

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