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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice

Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy

Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

V is for Vagina: Your A to Z Guide to Periods, Piercings, Pleasures, and so much more

300 Arguments

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry

Not Knowing: The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

Staying in the Game: The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Guide to Punctuation

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Here, There and Everywhere: Best-Loved Stories of Sudha Murthy

a fire like you

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

Questions for Ada

Find Your Voice: The Secret to Talking with Confidence in Any Situation

Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop

How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need: Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You

The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

The Two Kinds of Decay

The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It

The Complete A to Z for Your V: A Women’s Guide to Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Vagina–Health, Pleasure, Hormones, and More

Stray

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

A Good Time to be a Girl: Don’t Lean In, Change the System

Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too

Claire Denis

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bystander Effect

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

soft thorns

Be the Change You Want to See in the World: 365 Things You Can Do for Yourself And Your Planet

Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir

Sea of Strangers

The Strength In Our Scars

The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide: Everything you need to know to make small changes that make a big difference

Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success

Video Slut

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

7 Miles Out

soft magic.

Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music

Antichrist

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

The Art and Craft of Storytelling: A Comprehensive Guide to Classic Writing Techniques

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

The Psychology of Gender

My Life in Middlemarch

Studying Talk to Her

Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece

The Little Book of Slow: Live Mindfully and Enjoy the Simple Things

Rupaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought

Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment

Your Soul is a River

Let the Right One In

Little Book, Big Plants: Bring the Outside in with 45 Friendly Giants

In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

How Art Can Make You Happy

Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

What We Carry: A Memoir

Woman of Color

Google It: A History of Google

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Have You Seen Simone?: The Story of an Unsolved Murder

yesterday i was the moon

Selling Sex Short: The Pornographic and Sexological Construction of Women’s Sexuality in the West

in the absence of the sun

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Colette’s France: Her lives, her loves

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Everything is Going to be K.O.: An Illustrated Memoir of Living with Specific Learning Difficulties

The Coitus Chronicles: My Quest for Sex, Love, and Orgasms

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

Simplify Your Life: Waste Less, Value More, Go Minimalist

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

Sexual Politics

South and West: From a Notebook

The Vagina Monologues

Unwifeable: A Memoir

Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

Mind Kind: Your Child’s Mental Health

She Had Some Horses

The Introvert’s Guide to the Workplace: Concrete Strategies for Bosses and Employees to Thrive and Succeed

Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry

Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast.

The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

Trick Yourself to Sleep: 222 Ways to Fall and Stay Asleep from the Science of Slumber

Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter

Suspiria

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

Unicorn: The poetry of Angela Carter

Modern Etiquette Made Easy: A Five-Step Method to Mastering Etiquette

Business Etiquette Made Easy: The Essential Guide to Professional Success

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

What You Become in Flight

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

All About Love: New Visions

Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet

Delphi Complete Works of Artemisia Gentileschi

The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

You’re Not Special

More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood

You Deserve the Truth: Change the Stories that Shaped Your World and Build a World-Changing Life

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Feminism and Science

Eat to Sleep: 80 Nourishing Recipes to Help You Sleep Well Every Night

No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

The Gardener’s Guide to Succulents: A Handbook of Over 125 Exquisite Varieties of Succulents and Cacti

Inge’s War: A German Woman’s Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

This Is All I Got

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

Women in Dark Times

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us

The Return of the Political

A Woman Without a Country: Poems

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism and the West

Women, Resistance and Revolution A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs

Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire

Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

Cinderland: A Memoir

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Women’s Atlas

What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Virus: 101 Incredible Microbes from Coronavirus to Zika

Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

Woman’s Estate

Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Plant-Powered Beauty: The Essential Guide to Using Natural Ingredients for Health, Wellness, and Personal Skincare (with 50-plus Recipes)

Pelosi

Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love!

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

When Women Kill

Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism

Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics

Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class