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How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round

Let Me Clear My Throat

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Animals Strike Curious Poses

The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

On Connection

Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

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

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

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

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

Everybody’s Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

On Community

This Long Thread

The Space Between

Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace

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

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Catching the Light

Conversations with Birds

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Look Alive Out There: Essays

Black and Female: Essays

Girlhood

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

Dirtbag: Essays

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Ill Feelings

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

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

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

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

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

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

The Deadline

The Young Man

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

Black Friend: Essays

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

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

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Inverse Cowgirl

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Seven Days in the Art World

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

People Change

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Every Lie I’ve Ever Told

The Anti-Cool Girl

Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women

Sober Vibes: A Guide to Thriving in Your First Three Months Without Alcohol

Fifty Sounds

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

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

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

The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society

Thin Skin: Essays

Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation

The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation

Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

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

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

New Feminist Art Criticism

Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist’s Couch

The Vagina Book: An Owner’s Manual for Taking Care of Your Down There

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Translating Myself and Others

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

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

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next?

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

The Light Room

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

Once and Future Feminist

Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going

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

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Exteriors

Adult Drama: And Other Essays

The first time I thought I was dying

We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Where the Stress Falls

Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women

Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Regarding the Pain of Others

Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry

How We Love: Notes on a Life

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

The Hidden Writer

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Real Estate

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Quietly Hostile: Essays

Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

A Horse at Night: On Writing

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Ordinary Notes

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

A Mind Of One’s Own: Feminist Essays On Reason And Objectivity

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

The White Book

Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

How to Read Now

Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Crying in the Bathroom

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizan to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Letters to a Writer of Color

Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales

Black Futures

Hysterical: A Memoir

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field

The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (and Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

No Archive Will Restore You

Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Ain’t I a Woman?

Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir

Things I Learned At Art School

Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Indoor Cat: How to Enrich Their Lives and Expand Their World

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Reckoning

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir