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Why Labelle Matters

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

The Lucky Ones

All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health

Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Women

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

Women Making Art

To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Farewell to the Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War: From Vogue to Dachau

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

A History of Women in 101 Objects

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Woman on Trial

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

The Dollar

Vital Organs

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics

Bus Stop and the Influence of the 70s on Fashion Today

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Vintage Style: 25 Iconic Fashion Looks and How to Get Them

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Laughter in Ancient Rome

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther

Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World

Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire

The Golden Girls

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

The Secrets Of Women Who Never Give Up: 11 Resilience Building Strategies Learned From Remarkable Women in History

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design

How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

The White Mosque

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Not Just Jane

Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

Animals Strike Curious Poses

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

Encountering Eva Hesse

Tea: A Global History

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures

Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World

Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde

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

Sashiko Handy Pocket Guide: 27 Designs, Tips & Tricks for Successful Stitching

Time

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Reading Fashion in Art

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

How to Survive in Medieval England

The Art of Understanding Art

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Old Mistresses

Streetwise

Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious FoodThe Art of Flavor

The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison SystemCaptive Revolution

A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

This Long Thread

Janis: Her Life and Music

Lee Krasner: A Biography

The Women Who Changed Architecture

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Enough

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

the new black

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

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Subway Art

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance

Black and Female: Essays

Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker

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

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

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

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire

The Wordy Shipmates

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Ill Feelings

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

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

Women, Art, and Society

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Holler, Child: Stories

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

Touching the Art

Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

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

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

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

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

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

My Cousin Maria Schneider