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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation

Meaning: A Very Short Introduction

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe

Background for Love

The Modern Money Manifesto: The No-Nonsense Guide to Boosting Your Finances

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And Why Resilience Alone Isn’t Enough)

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to colour in art and design

Ignite: Unlock Your Brain’s True Potential and Change Your Life

On My Own: A Memoir

Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family

The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

Stigmata

Clay: A Human History

Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women

Be My Baby: A Memoir

Find Work-Life Balance

A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero-Waste, Plant-Based, and Cruelty-Free

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

Essential Sashiko

Cloth 100 Artists: Contemporary & Heritage Techniques

World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Secrets of the Icewomen: The Power of Cold and Breathwork to Balance Hormones, Bolster Health, and Unlock Inner Potential

Through the Glass Ceiling: Reflections on Feminism from the C-Suite

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

A Protest History of the United States

A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence

Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge

It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times

The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition

Of My Own Making: A Memoir

Lesbians: Where are we now?

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin

Jane: A Murder

Visual and Other Pleasures

Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

Feminist Theory and the Classics

When I Grow up: A Memoir

Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts

The Narrowing: A journey through anxiety and the body

Learning to Trust Yourself: Breaking Through the Blocks That Hold You Back

Greek Tragedy

Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

Ten Men: A Year of Casual Sex

Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think)

Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All

Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Yves Klein

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Matriarch: A Memoir

The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood’s Asian Superstar

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)

Accidentally on Purpose

On The Body

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Man’s Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women’s Rights

Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol

Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature

Give Me Strength: How I Turned My Back on Restriction, Nurtured the Body I Love, and How You Can Too

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Sad Tiger

The Genius of Birds

The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies

Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Radical Intimacy

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More

Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

Legally Yours: Every Womans Guide to her Legal Rights

Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism

Leaving the Ladder Down: How to Combine Career and Motherhood, from the Women Who’ve Done it

Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Unlocking Women’s Health: FemTech and the Quest for Gender Equity

Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics

Mel & Sue: Should Know By Now

Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Vagina: A re-education

Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love

Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging

Griselda Pollock on Gauguin

A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change

No One Has Seen It All: Lessons for Living Well from Nearly a Century of Good Taste

High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

I Was Told There’d Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood through the Power of Connection

Authority: Essays

I Thought It Would Be Better than This: Rise from Disappointment, Regain Control, and Rebuild a Life You Love

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

Too Young for Cancer: One Woman’s Battle for a Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance

Inventing Human Rights: A History

Split: A Life Shared: Living with Multiple Personality Disorder

Okay, Now What?: How to Be Resilient When Life Gets Tough

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics

Unf*ck Your Parenting: How to Raise Feminist, Compassionate, Responsible, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids

Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age

What Am I Missing?: Discover the Four Blind Spots That Are Holding You Back, and How to Overcome Them

Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí

Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives

To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

Things You Can’t Ask Yer Mom

Feminine Intelligence: How visionary leaders can reshape business for good

The People Pleaser’s Guide to Putting Yourself First

Boat Baby: A Memoir

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture

Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work

Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire

The Menopause Metabolism Fix: The Over-40 Woman’s 4-Week Program to Recover Your Strong, Sexy (and Sane) Self in 15 Minutes a Day

Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard

Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

The Scandalous Lady W

Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

Free: My Search for Meaning

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen

Blue Nights

How to Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better than Before

Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls

A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum

The Story of a Heart

Making the Best of What’s Left: When We’re too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

Rewrite Your Rules: The Journey to Success in Less Time with More Freedom

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need (Updated Edition): Your One-Stop Source for Mastering English Grammar

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

Midlife Matters: Every Woman’s Guide to Embracing the Middle Years

Astrophysics for Dummies

Home Matters: How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them

Firstborn

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics

More than a Doll: How Creating a Sports Doll Turned into a Fight to End Gender Stereotypes

I’ll Have What She’s Having

The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

Body-First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China

The Living Mountain

Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life – And My Fight to Get it Back

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy

Bloomer: Embracing a late-life flourishing

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe

The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, and Under the Skin

This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body

Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

The Good Death: A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One Through the End of Life

The Portable Feminist Reader

How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany

Trauma Plot: A Life

How to Survive a Bear Attack

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been

Rihanna Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Rihanna

Moving Beyond Broke: The Power of Perseverance in Personal Finance

Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark

No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity

Artful

How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things