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Dickens’ Women

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

Wild Game

The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of the Cone Sisters, Matisse’s True Discoverers

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Joan of Arc: A Life

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution

Women: Our Story

Eleanor Marx: A Life

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know about

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Year of the Monkey

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

A To Z Of Women In Science And Math

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1939-1947)

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

Memoirs from the Women’s Prison

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist Visionary

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt’s First Feminist

A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties

An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold

No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

The Light of the World

Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage

Zephany: Two mothers. One daughter. An astonishing true story.

Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn

Suffragette: My Own Story

The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris’ List

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers

Don’t Hold My Head Down: In Search of Some Brilliant Fucking

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Boys in Zinc

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Nobody’s Looking at You

The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

Worn Stories

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

The Life of Elizabeth I

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

33 1/3: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Heroines

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

The Good Immigrant

Writing Feminist Lives: The Biographical Battles Over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Figuring

The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses

Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

The Stranger Beside Me

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

Femme Fatale: Love Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

Letters Home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence 1950-1963

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun

Fragments: Poems Intimate Notes, Letters by Monroe Marilyn

The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border

Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Marilyn Monroe: Her Films, Her Life

Pamela Hansford Johnson: A Writing Life

From Fed Up to Fabulous: Real Stories to Inspire and Unite Women World Wide

Jane Austen: A Brief Life

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen

Marilyn Norma Jeane

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Marlene Dietrich: The Life

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Making Trouble: Life and Politics

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher

The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque

Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, and Rumours