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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

Holler, Child: Stories

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women―And What We Can Do About It

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

I See You, Survivor: Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry

I Don’t

For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire

Strong, Calm and Free: A modern guide to yoga, meditation and mindful living

How Veganism Can Save Us

Touching the Art

Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter

Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(And Maybe a Few You Don’t): Sane and Sage Advice to Help You Navigate All of Your Most Important Relationships

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays

Class: A Memoir

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

It’s About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Thrive Through Yoga: A 21-Day Journey to Ease Anxiety, Love Your Body and Feel More Alive

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance Through the Radical Power of Rest

Racial Wellness: A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World

A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

Dear Mr. You

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Jacinda Ardern: The Full Story of an Extraordinary Prime Minister

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

My Name Is Barbra

Call You When I Land

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems

Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection

Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

My Cousin Maria Schneider

What We See: Women & Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens

The Deadline

100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Behind The Shoulder Pads – Tales I Tell My Friends

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

F*ck Your Comfort Zone: Take a Risk and Become the Lead in Your Own Life

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science

Breaking Through: My Life in Science

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World

Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

The Year I Met My Brain: A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD

Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design

DBT Skills for Highly Sensitive People: Make Emotional Sensitivity Your Superpower Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

Loving You Is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

Succulent Style: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Crafting with Succulents

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women

The Pivot Year

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

Why Don’t I Have Anything to Wear?: Spend Less. Shop Smarter. Revolutionise Your Wardrobe

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Inverse Cowgirl

Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn’t Want Kids (…Until I Did)

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

Undiscovered

The World According to Joan Didion

A Woman of Property

A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Spider Woman

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

First Gen

Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

Thicker Than Water

Omega Farm

The Woman in Me

Becoming a Matriarch

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Leslie F*cking Jones

Everything Nothing Someone

Holler Rat

Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Desire: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Libido Differences in Relationships

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Anna: The Biography

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Through the Groves: A Memoir

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Seven Days in the Art World

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

The Book of Boro: Techniques and Patterns Inspired by Traditional Japanese Textiles

The Joy of Being Online All the F*cking Time: The Art of Losing Your Mind (Literally)

The Glass Castle

Feminisms: A Global History

The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s

Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good

Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

People Change

The Courage of Compassion: A Journey from Judgment to Connection

Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World

Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment

Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They’re Having Sex

Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet

Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror

The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

Leading Well: A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership

Artemisia Gentileschi

The Art of Looking Up

Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right

Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Tastes Like War

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

Every Lie I’ve Ever Told

The Anti-Cool Girl

Disappearing Act: A True Story

Sober Vibes: A Guide to Thriving in Your First Three Months Without Alcohol