nonfiction – Page 3 – The Staircase Window

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate Kids by Becoming the Parent You Wish You’d Had

Sleep Groove: Why Your Body’s Clock Is So Messed Up and What To Do About It

What Are We Doing Here?

Unlock Your Aesthetic: A Visual Guide to Find Your Vibe

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

Groomed

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1

Graffiti (and other poems)

The Power Pause: How to Plan a Career Break After Kids—and Come Back Stronger Than Ever

Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace

The Motherload

Feminist Thought (Sixth Edition)

Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes

Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor

Reconstructing Feminism Through Cyberfeminism

Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion

Reclaiming the Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause

Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation

Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser

Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women who Work in Nature

Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Fuel Your Brain, Not Your Anxiety: Stop the Cycle of Worry, Fatigue, and Sugar Cravings with Simple Protein-Rich Foods

Bittersweet: A True Story of Love and Loss

Poor

The Uncomfortable Truth: Change Your Life By Taming 10 of Your Mind’s Greatest Fears

The Art of Memory Collecting: 15 Scrapbook, Collage, Trinket and Zine Projects For Crafting Treasured Moment

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Webb’s Universe: The Space Telescope Images That Reveal Our Cosmic History

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

The Modern Guide to Sex

Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies

Psychedelics and Mental Health: Neuroscience and the Power of Psychoactives in Therapy

Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom

Feminist Rhetorical Theories

Everything I Wish I Could Tell You about Midlife: A Woman’s Guide to Health in the Body You Actually Have

The PMDD Phenomenon

Protecting My Peace: Embracing Inner Beauty & Ancestral Power

I’m Not Yelling: A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace

Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t

How to Overcome Your Childhood: How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children

Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain’s Ancient Paths

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning

Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them

Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience

Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership: Uncomplicating Cars for All of Us

The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health

The Manicurist’s Daughter

This Book Is Cheaper than Therapy: A No-Nonsense Guide to Improving Your Mental Health

One Way Back

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Women Who Work Too Much

Bea Palya’s I’ll Be Your Plaything

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021

No One Gets to Fall Apart

Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women’s Lives

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Once upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics

Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe

I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art

Morning Glory On The Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell

Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Girls and Their Cats

Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Overcoming Relationship Anxiety: A Personal Approach to Understanding Your Emotions, Building Your Self-Confidence, and Creating a Healthy, Secure Partnership

Releasing the Mother Load: How to Carry Less and Enjoy Motherhood More

The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free

The Joy of Connections: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life

Poet Warrior

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

Did I Ever Tell You?

Wander Woman: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World, Solo

Notes from an Island

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

The Origins Of Totalitarianism

A Bit on the Side

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman

Who Runs the World?: Girls, Leadership, and Women in the Public Eye

The Weaker Vessel

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying

My Time to Stand

Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

A Map to the Door of No Return

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

Between Two Trailers

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life (+ Revised Edition, 2025)

Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography

Justice and the Politics of Difference

Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos

A Thousand Threads

Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

How Do You Feel?: One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography

Da Baddest

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Consider This: Reflections for Finding Peace

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island near the North Pole

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

Friendship First: From New Sparks to Chosen Family, How Our Friends Pave the Way for Lifelong Happiness

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

Life Skills for a Broken World

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life

When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way

Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble

The Science of Beauty: Debunk the Myths and Discover What Goes into Your Beauty Routine

The Ladder: Life Lessons from Women Who Scaled the Heights & Dodged the Snakes

The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Technology Is Not the Problem

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

Connie: A Memoir

How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment

Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

The Housekeeper’s Secret

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

Here You Are, Courageous: Transform Your Relationship with Fear, Anxiety and Panic and Reclaim Your Life

Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary