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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World

Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

One Way Back

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Once upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics

Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe

Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology

Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Poet Warrior

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

The Origins Of Totalitarianism

The Weaker Vessel

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

A Map to the Door of No Return

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

Connie: A Memoir

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Kingdom of No Tomorrow

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

The Jamestown Brides

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father, Lucian Freud

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Didion and Babitz

Nora Ephron at the Movies

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

The Planets

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories

Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

Alice James

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

The World She Edited

A Writer’s Diary

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation

In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

Korean Horror Cinema

Horror Noire

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

The Book of Hallowe’en

In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ghosts: A Haunted History

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies

On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches

Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Witches: A Compendium

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

A Woman in the Polar Night

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

I Love Romcoms and I am a Feminist: A manifesto in 100 romcoms

The Natural History of Crime: Case Studies in Death and the Clues Nature Leaves Behind

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

Merkel’s Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

Women Out of Bounds

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion

Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women