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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

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

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life

Searching for Annabel Chong: Demystifying the Legend of Singapore’s Most Famous Pornstar

Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters

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

I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors

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

Merlin Stone Remembered: Her Life and Works

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

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

Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea

A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

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

Understanding Octavia E. Butler

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

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

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts

Yves Klein

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics

Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World

Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

The Rebel Romanov

Vida: A Woman for Our Time

Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Why Alanis Morissette Matters

A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life

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

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life

Sisters in Science

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign

Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

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

Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life

The Ladder: Life Lessons from Women Who Scaled the Heights & Dodged the Snakes

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

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

Didion and Babitz

Nora Ephron at the Movies

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Alice James

Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

The World She Edited

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

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

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

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

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

Merkel’s Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

Women Out of Bounds

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

This Dark Country

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

Tudor Feminists: 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

Why Labelle Matters

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

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

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

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

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

Carson McCullers: A Life

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

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

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

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

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

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

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Why Solange Matters

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World

Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

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

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire

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

The Secrets Of Women Who Never Give Up: 11 Resilience Building Strategies Learned From Remarkable Women in History

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