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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

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

Gulag: A History

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

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

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

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time

The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us

How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality

Hear Me Roar

The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism

Green River, Running Red

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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

Is Peace Possible?

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction

Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice

Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work

Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond

Wendat Women’s Arts

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

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

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family

The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

Clay: A Human History

Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women

Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

A Protest History of the United States

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times

Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

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

The Narrowing: A journey through anxiety and the body

Greek Tragedy

Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Yves Klein

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

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

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

Griselda Pollock on Gauguin

A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds

Authority: Essays

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

Inventing Human Rights: A History

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics

The Singularity

Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age

Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí

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

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

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

Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture

Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work

Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World

The Scandalous Lady W

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

Home Matters: How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them

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

The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

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

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

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

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

This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood

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

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Boudicca

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

Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, with a foreword from Margaret Atwood

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

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

Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

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

Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants

Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belse

Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England

Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

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

The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army

Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine

Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women

Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women’s Rights in Canada

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

The Rebel Romanov

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

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life

This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

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

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

Sisters in Science

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me: Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia

A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

Pop Art

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973

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

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

My Accidental Career

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

How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out

A Decolonial Feminism

Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

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

Humans: A Monstrous History

Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

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

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

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

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time

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

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

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

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor

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

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife