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Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

The Cycle Book: An Interactive Step-by-Step Guide to Tracking Hormones and Knowing Your Body

We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something

The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood

Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, with a foreword from Margaret Atwood

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Another Day in the Colony

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

The Cute

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

The Artist’s Way Toolkit: How to Use the Creative Practices

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

All the Parts We Exile

Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World

Renegade Grief

Care and Feeding

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture

Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster

Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

The Creative Entrepreneur: A Guide to Building a Successful Creative Business From Industry Titans

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belse

Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army

Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer

Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

The Tell: A Memoir

Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

Is It My ADHD?: Navigating Life as a Neurodivergent Adult

Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine

Mornings Without Mii

You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms

Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create

Right-Wing Women

Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays

The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence

Pornography

Raising Hare

Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women

Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women’s Rights in Canada

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure

To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online

Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

Styles of Joy: A Feel-Good Framework for Rediscovering Joy (with a Twist!)

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor’s Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease

Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

The Rebel Romanov

Are You There, God? It’s Me, In Menopause: An Unfiltered, Honest Guide to Midlife Hormones, Health, and Happiness

Vida: A Woman for Our Time

Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott

It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Huma

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

Say Everything: A Memoir

It’s Complicated

Sucker Punch: Essays

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Why Alanis Morissette Matters

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television

Power to the Pelvis: Improve Your Pelvic Floor for Better Digestive, Urinary, Reproductive and Sexual Health

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life

This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

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

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can’t Buy

Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media

Validation: How the Skill Set That Revolutionized Psychology Will Transform Your Relationships, Increase Your Influence, and Change Your Life

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life

Slutdom: Reclaiming shame-free sexuality

Sculptor’s Daughter

You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie

Open When: A Companion for Life’s Twists & Turns

Sisters in Science

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Lost & Found: 9 Life-Changing Lessons About Stuff from Someone Who Lost Everything

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me: Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia

Read Yourself Happy: How to Use Books to Ease Your Anxiety

A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

What Happened to My Sex Life?: A Sex Therapist’s Guide to Reclaiming Lost Desire, Connection, and Pleasure

Pop Art

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Figuring Out Thirty: Decoding the decisive decade (and what really matters)

How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis

The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism

Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science

The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse

Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology

Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope

Picasso’s Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

Feminism in the United States

Soul School: Taking Kids on a Joy-Filled Journey Through the Heart of Black American Culture

The Container Gardening Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Flowers in Pots

The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings

Genius Gut: The Life-Changing Science of Eating for Your Second Brain

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean

Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Read Life Accurately: Recognize and Respond to What’s Really Happening

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art

Why Memoir Matters: Learning from the Lives of Others

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower

Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

Hitmakers: How Brands Influence Culture

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

My Accidental Career

Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock

Common Visual Art in a Social Digital Age

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel

The Trauma of Burnout: How to Manage Your Nervous System Before It Manages You

Memorial Days: A Memoir

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

Sociopath: A Memoir

Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out

A Decolonial Feminism

Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home

Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies

The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults: Neurodiversity Affirming Skills to Help You Live Authentically, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive

Reading the Waves

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Perfect Is Boring (and It Tastes Like Kale): Finding Belonging and Purpose Without Changing Who You Are

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine

The Sewing Book

Humans: A Monstrous History

Healthy Happy ADHD: Transform How You Move, Eat, and Feel, and Create Your Own Path to Well-Being

The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone

Mornings With My Cat Mii

Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture