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Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power

How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

The Trouble with Fairy Tales: A Memoir

Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

The Period Brain: The New Science of Why We PMS and How to Fix It: A Manifesto for Women

Bird Talk: Hilariously Accurate Ways to Identify Birds by the Sounds They Make

Feminist History for Every Day of the Year

Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

Allow Me to Interrupt: A Psychologist Reveals the Emotional Truth Behind Women’s ADHD

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 2: The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel

Heroic Women Throughout History: The Women Who Didn’t Back Down Because It Got Too Hard

Ways of Looking at a Woman

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman

A Just Future: Getting from Diversity and Inclusion to Equity and Justice in Higher Education

F*ck Being Humble: Why self-promotion isn’t a dirty word

All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church’s Biggest Names

Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light

More Musical Women Throughout History: More Women Who Fought For Music

What Matters to You: How Your Values Are the Key to Transforming Your Life and Work

Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery

A Book of Days

When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film

Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde

I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir

Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Awake: A Memoir

Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

Queens at War: England’s Medieval Queens

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Twitch: My life with Parkinson’s

(Un)kind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women

World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Unwed & Unbothered: The Defiant Lives of Single Women Throughout History

The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones

A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis

She’s Under Here: A Love Story, a Horror Story, a Reckoning

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today

Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s

Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)

Here We Go: Lessons for Living Fearlessly from Two Traveling Nanas

The Writing Revolution 2.0: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising

The Nature of Fashion: A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives

Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul

No Lost Causes Club: An Honest Guide to Recovery, and How to Find Your Way Through It

The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Art Work: On the Creative Life

30 Days to Rediscover Your Creativity

Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism

Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice

Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders

Role Model: Taking up space in the fashion world

Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

Full Circle: A Personal Story of Reconnection to te ao Māori

Slow Down: How Doing Nothing Makes Us Better Humans

The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All

A Life in Letters

They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood

Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

The Answer Is in the Wound: Trauma, Rage, and Alchemy

The Principles of Uncertainty

(un)FASHION

Destroy This House: A Memoir

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Forgotten Women

The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist

Cat Call: Reclaiming the Feral Feminine

A Silent Treatment: A Memoir

Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music

The Healing Power of Cats

Red Pockets: A Tale of Inheritance, Ghosts and the Future

The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West

The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs

The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body

Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays

Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back

Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters’ Fight for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

Beyond Difficult

Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs

Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine

Greyhound: A Memoir

The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine

Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It

Finding Your People: The Ultimate Guide to Friendship

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Gypsy: A Memoir

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up

Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative

Raising Readers: How to Nurture a Child’s Love of Books

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Exposure

Coping in Good Times and Bad

Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea

You Are Not Alone in This: Supporting a Loved One’s Mental Health Without Losing Your Own

Born: A History of Childbirth and the Female Struggle to Govern Our Bodies

And You May Find Yourself…

Tissue

Growing in to Autism

Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History

I Should Be Smarter By Now: Stories of Persistence, Delusion, and Occasional Success

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Classical Mythology of the Constellations: Timeless Tales of the Starry Night Sky

Ugly: Giving Us Back our Beauty Standards

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Twelve Feminist Lessons of War

The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland

Loveable: A Memoir: One Woman’s Path from Good to Free

Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way

Autistic and Black

Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Resting Bitch Face: Poems

Unbreakable: A Woman’s Guide to Aging with Power

The Motherhood Myth: A Depth Therapist’s Guide to Redefine Parenting, Reimagine Intimacy, and Reclaim the Self

The Real America: The Tangled Roots of Race and Identity

Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life

Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color

Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life

Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

Taboo: Conversations We Never Had About Sex, Body Image, Work and Relationships

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

A Truce That Is Not Peace

February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil

Tate Women Artists

Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i

How to Talk to Yourself: From Self-Doubt to Self-Confidence

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Paperback Therapy: Therapist-approved tools and advice for mastering your mental health

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

Living with Jane Austen

Main Character Energy: How to own the narrative of your life

Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE

The Damage of Words: A Memoir of Healing Self-Hate and Gaining Self-Mastery

The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit: Embrace Your Authentic Self and Harness Your True Potential

Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Resurface: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Biggest Transitions

Against the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir

In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf

The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

The Women of Microsoft: Empowering Stories from the Minds that Coded the World

Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir

Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving

Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1987

One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995

How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998

Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities, and Demons: A Guide to Feline Folklore and Mythology

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

Almost 30: A Definitive Guide to a Life You Love for the Next Decade and Beyond

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

Fallosophy: My Trip Through Life with MS

If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die: An Influencer Memoir

Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives

Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It

Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen

Quickies: One Hundred Little Lessons for Living Sexily Ever After in Midlife