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Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
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Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
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In Every Mirror She’s Black
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Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond
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Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
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A Protest History of the United States 
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The House No One Sees
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Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work
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Bad Manners
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The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
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More than a Doll: How Creating a Sports Doll Turned into a Fight to End Gender Stereotypes
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China
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Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
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You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
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What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
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Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel
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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
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Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
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How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship
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Kingdom of No Tomorrow
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
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Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance
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Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension
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Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age
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Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young
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Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth
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Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
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Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
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Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
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Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists
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You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America
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One Hundred Shadows
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Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
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Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World
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Loving Corrections
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Libertad
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
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Do The Work
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What Things Cost: an anthology for the people
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Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
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Rehearsals for Living
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Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
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Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
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Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
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To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement
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True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
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Your Body Is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth
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The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
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Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor
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Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
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Completely Normal (and Other Lies)
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The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
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Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design
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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
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Self and Identity: The Basics
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The Emotionally Intelligent Teen: Skills to Help You Deal with What You Feel, Build Stronger Relationships, and Boost Self-Confidence
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The Denim Diaries
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the new black
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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
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Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all
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Touching the Art
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After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
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The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
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Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
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Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up
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Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
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Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
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Cannibal
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Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
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The Better Half
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Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
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Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation
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Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age
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Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
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The Plague: Living Death in Our Times
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Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
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Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice
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Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life
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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
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Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico
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Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting
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Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress
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Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning
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It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
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Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions 
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Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women
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Where the Stress Falls 
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How to Be A Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back
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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism
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Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession
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Mind the Inclusion Gap: How allies can bridge the divide between talking diversity and taking action
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
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The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair 
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
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All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty
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Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
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Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy
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Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World
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A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs
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The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever
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What Has Life Taught You?: 10 Eternal Questions Answered by 40 Exceptional People
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How to Read Now
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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
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Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough
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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
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In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis
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Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
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Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians
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Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change
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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation
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A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
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It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
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An Impossible Return
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
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Talking About a Revolution
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Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs
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Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
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Bodies of Light
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Token Black Girl: A Memoir
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Black Internet Effect
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Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution
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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
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Rethinking Sex: A Provocation
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Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
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We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation
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Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era
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The Talking Drum
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Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
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Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems
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London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914: A Talented and Decorative Group
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Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech
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Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women
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Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
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The Little Book of Trauma Healing
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The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion
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Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
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Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses
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Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
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Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism
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The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
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A Knock at Midnight
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What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action
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After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
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Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States
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The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017
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A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
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Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
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We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
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Racism And Anti-Racism In Europe
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I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
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The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart
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This Is All I Got
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Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy
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