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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

The Jamestown Brides

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

The Kids Are All Right: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World

Slowing: Discover Wonder, Beauty, and Creativity through Slow Living

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father, Lucian Freud

Mamá Didn’t Raise a Pendeja: Anti-Affirmations Inspired by Tough-Love Abuela

Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom—Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays

Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Didion and Babitz

Releasing Toxic Anger for Women: Somatic Practices and CBT Skills to Transform Negative Thoughts, Soothe Stress, and Stay True to Yourself

Mad Wife

Nora Ephron at the Movies

Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films

Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy

Sage Warrior

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice

Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency

Well Worn: Visible Mending for the Clothes You Love

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being

The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty

The Age of Living Machines: How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms

The Planets

Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories

Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World

From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture

Tiny Pep Talks: Bite-Size Encouragement for Life’s Annoying, Stressful, and Flat-Out Lousy Moments

Why Am I Like This?: My Brain Isn’t Broken (and Neither Is Yours)

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

Alice James

I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

Because I’m Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

The Use of Photography

The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond

The Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: How to Build a Disability-Inclusive World

The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: A Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

The World She Edited

Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy

Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young

Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young