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Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

The Roman Triumph

How to Read Now: Essays

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

A History of Science: From Agriculture to Artificial Intelligence

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Women Who Made Science History

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Black Women Writers at Work

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

Reframing the Past: History, Film and Television

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science

BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

Female Innovators Who Changed Our World

A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

Helen of Troy

Medieval Pets

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

No Choice

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts

Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes

Ain’t I a Woman?

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Woman’s Estate

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Wonderful Tonight

The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, Techniques

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums… and why we need to talk about it

Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe

Viking Women: Life and Lore

The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Photography and the Art Market

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

A Natural History of the Senses

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Call It That

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Clutter: An Untidy History

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet

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

Hilma af Klint: A Biography

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

Pickleball for All: Everything but the “Kitchen” Sink

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Extraordinary Women In History: 70 Remarkable Women Who Made a Difference, Inspired & Broke Barriers

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

The Years

The Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and Other Regal Women

Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley, 1530-1603

Forensic Files Now: Inside 40 Unforgettable True Crime Cases

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

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

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Poukahangatus: Poems

Alicia: My Story

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Butts: A Backstory

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait

Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

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

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Call Us What We Carry

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

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

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

The Little Book of Snow

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

On Juneteenth

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Loud

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice