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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

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Men in Dark Times

On Violence

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

33 1/3: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon

Vesper Flights

Intimations

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

Azadi

My Life as a Villainess

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema

AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017

Rise Speak Change: The 2017 Girls Write Now Anthology

The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Guilt Trip: My Quest to Leave the Baggage Behind

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye

American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965

The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage

Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

A History of Women in 100 Objects

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope

Too Much and Not the Mood

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

Abandon Me: Memoirs

Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America

The Business of Women’s Empowerment: Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South

Radiant Voices: 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks

Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist’s Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life –Alcohol Free

What Doesn’t Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Femmes Fatales

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Ugly Feelings

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays

A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

The Faraway Nearby

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees

Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

Surviving Autocracy

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem

A Field Guide to Getting Lost