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

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

I Don’t Need Therapy: (And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself)

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

I Am Debra Lee

Crying in the Bathroom

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

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

Paris: The Memoir

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team

The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist

Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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

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

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir

Strong Female Character

Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales

Hysterical: A Memoir

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World

This Is What I Know About Art

This Will Be Funny Later

Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

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

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (and Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer

Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Notes on Heartbreak: From Vogue’s Dating Columnist, the must-read book on losing love and letting go

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

No Archive Will Restore You

Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Ain’t I a Woman?

Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Option: One Woman’s Journey Into Everyday Antiracism

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir

The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

Things I Learned At Art School

Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To: 48 Lessons to Banish Burnout and Avoid Anxiety for Those Who Put Others First

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

Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem

This Is Not a Pity Memoir

Reckoning

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power

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

Bad Vibes Only: (And Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

She Memes Well

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

Fault Lines: A Memoir

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

Wonderful Tonight

The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent

Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie

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

Enjoy me among my ruins

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture

Things Seen

Forty Favours The Brave

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column

The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Conversations on Love

Lessons I’ve Learned

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Joyrider: How gratitude can help you get the life you really want

Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years

Notes on Womanhood

FAME-ISH: My Life at the Edge of Stardom

Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Easy Beauty

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Emotional Female

Consent: A Memoir

Yield: The Journal of an Artist

Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays

Clutter: An Untidy History

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

The World Deserves My Children

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Out of the Corner

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

Write for Your Life

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Dear Dana

This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family

Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal

The Years

The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Soulbriety: A Plan to Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul

Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

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

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

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

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Acne: A Memoir

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Alicia: My Story

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

The Lonely Hunter: How the Search for Love Is Broken

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

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

Crying in H Mart

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Ma and Me

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall

I Still Have It . . . I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Ten Steps to Nanette

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

The World’s Worst Assistant

I’m Glad My Mom Died

The Wreckage of My Presence

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

This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Somebody’s Daughter

On Juneteenth

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

Loud

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

The Soul of a Woman

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country

Finding Me

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Upper Bohemia: A Memoir

Notes on Grief

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

Ladyparts

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

home body

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are

Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu: Letters from India & Nepal, 1966-1972

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating and Publishing Your Personal Story

Watching the Tree

Film for Her

The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)