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Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

Class: A Memoir

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

My Home is Far Away: An Autobiographical Novel

It’s About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

Let Us Descend

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World

Third Eye

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

Dear Mr. You

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

Like a Hole in the Head

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

My Name Is Barbra

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

The Reformatory

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories

The Dead Take the A Train

The Old Maid

Good Women

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

All You Have to Do Is Call

The Wind Knows My Name

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

One Blood

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

Inverse Cowgirl

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

The World According to Joan Didion

Turn, Magic Wheel

A Woman of Property

Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

Thicker Than Water

Omega Farm

The Woman in Me

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Leslie F*cking Jones

Everything Nothing Someone

Holler Rat

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Revenge of the Scapegoat

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Through the Groves: A Memoir

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

White Horse

Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Harriet the Spy

Breaking the Maafa Chain

Leading Well: A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Life in the Iron Mills

Evening in Paradise: More Stories

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Gloria: A Life

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

Hang the Moon

Community Board

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Time’s Mouth

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

The Kudzu Queen

Thin Skin: Essays

Romaine Brooks: A Life

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope

I’m Down

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

An American Immigrant

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

The Living is Easy

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Little Monsters

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Tomb Sweeping: Stories

The Pisces

A Touch of Jen

Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Acceptance: A Memoir

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Do Less: The Unexpected Strategy for Women to Get More of What They Want in Work and Life

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Inside the Wolf

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

The Majority

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Tom Lake

Couplets

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Too Soon for Adiós

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Silver Nitrate

Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out

Black Girl, Call Home

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Emergency

Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

How to Win at Feminism

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Zero-Sum: Stories

Maybe We’ll Make It

Ripe

Temple Folk

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

The Summer of Songbirds

The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook

Screen Style

All I Need to Know I Learned from the Golden Girls: Bigger, Better, Blanchier Second Edition

How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Not Quite a Disaster After All

The Life of the Mind

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

Distant Mandate: Poems

The Say So

Georgia O’Keeffe

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Meaningful Work: Stories

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Adult Drama: And Other Essays

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

I Always Knew: A Memoir

Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

I Am Ayah: The Way Home

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Twist: An American Girl