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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

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