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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: Essays

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

Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies

Bad Vibes Only: (And Other Things I Bring to the Table)

The Visible Unseen

Serial Girls: From Barbie to Pussy Riot

Big Time: Stories

She Memes Well

This Is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change

Enjoy me among my ruins

Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

Things Seen

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

A Natural History of the Senses

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column

This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

Conversations on Love

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years

FAME-ISH: My Life at the Edge of Stardom

Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

Talking About a Revolution

Easy Beauty

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays

Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-Grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

The World Deserves My Children

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

Write for Your Life

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things

Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

The Essential Ellen Willis

Living Pictures

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Wreckage of My Presence

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives

On Juneteenth

Fix the System, Not the Women

The Soul of a Woman

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Notes on Grief

In Memory of Memory

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

No One Asked for This: Essays

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

On Imagination

Soviet Women and Their Art: The Spirit of Equality

Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others

Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

Drinking with Dead Women Writers

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

The Cancer Journals

A Manual for Heartache

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

You Think It, I’ll Say It

Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Just Us: An American Conversation

Solutions and Other Problems

Having and Being Had

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism

Women, Culture, and Politics

Queer Privacy: Essays From The Margins Of Society

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19

New Daughters of Africa

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries