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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

Narcissistic Abuse: A Therapist’s Guide to Identifying, Escaping and Healing from Toxic and Manipulative People

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop

Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Who I Always Was: A Memoir

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs

Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

How to Be Dateable: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Person and Falling in Love

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time

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