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The Women We Wanted to Look Like

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science

Breaking Through: My Life in Science

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World

Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

The Year I Met My Brain: A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD

Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design

DBT Skills for Highly Sensitive People: Make Emotional Sensitivity Your Superpower Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

Loving You Is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

Succulent Style: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Crafting with Succulents

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women

The Pivot Year

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

Why Don’t I Have Anything to Wear?: Spend Less. Shop Smarter. Revolutionise Your Wardrobe

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Inverse Cowgirl

Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn’t Want Kids (…Until I Did)

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

Undiscovered

The World According to Joan Didion

A Woman of Property

A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Spider Woman

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

First Gen

Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

Thicker Than Water

Omega Farm

The Woman in Me

Becoming a Matriarch

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Leslie F*cking Jones

Everything Nothing Someone

Holler Rat

Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Desire: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Libido Differences in Relationships

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Anna: The Biography

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Through the Groves: A Memoir

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Seven Days in the Art World

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

The Book of Boro: Techniques and Patterns Inspired by Traditional Japanese Textiles

The Joy of Being Online All the F*cking Time: The Art of Losing Your Mind (Literally)

The Glass Castle

Feminisms: A Global History

The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s

Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good

Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

People Change

The Courage of Compassion: A Journey from Judgment to Connection

Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World

Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment

Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They’re Having Sex

Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet

Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror

The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

Leading Well: A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership

Artemisia Gentileschi

The Art of Looking Up

Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right

Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Tastes Like War

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

Every Lie I’ve Ever Told

The Anti-Cool Girl

Disappearing Act: A True Story

Sober Vibes: A Guide to Thriving in Your First Three Months Without Alcohol

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Fifty Sounds

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and DatingUnfuck Your Intimacy

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor’s 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

Between Two Kingdoms: What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living

Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded

Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

Last Sext

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Modern Whore: A Memoir

In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen

Confessions of an Art Addict

Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow

100 Years of Fashion Illustration

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society

Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Pretending is Lying

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Ghosts of the Orphanage

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Thin Skin: Essays

Romaine Brooks: A Life

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope

I’m Down

Speculum of the Other Woman

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

Instead of a Letter

You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies

Seventy Letters: Personal and Intellectual Windows on a Thinker

First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

Fifty Years a Feminist

Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation

Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age

The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

It’s Up to You: A Practice to Change Your Life by Changing Your Mind

Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors

Revitalizing Retirement: Reshaping Your Identity, Relationships, and Purpose

Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Acceptance: A Memoir

Sex Talks: The 5 Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

The Compost Coach: Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden – wherever you live

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits

New Feminist Art Criticism

New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy

Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist’s Couch

Do Less: The Unexpected Strategy for Women to Get More of What They Want in Work and Life

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

A Very Easy Death

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization