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The Mesmerist

She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

Exposure

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

A History of Hazardous Objects

You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America

First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

My Men

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

We’re Alone

Madwoman

Lovely One

I Would Meet You Anywhere

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

My Side of the River

Private Equity

White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future

Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World

Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

Sacrificial Animals

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Mystery Lights

Justice, Gender, And The Family

What Things Cost: an anthology for the people

Infinite Country

Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

A Termination

The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

The Italy Letters

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases

The Rich People Have Gone Away

Wordhunter

Maybe You Die: The True Story of a Couple Living the All-American Nightmare

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

The Sundial

The Witch’s Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us

Studio Musician: Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 Hit Bassist, Guitarist

Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too

Rip Tide

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

Seven Days in June

Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Whiskey Tender

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy

Tell Me I’m An Artist

We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

Catalina

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

15 Lies Women Are Told at Work: …And the Truth We Need to Succeed

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Duchess of Palms: A Memoir

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Smothermoss

Women Are The Fiercest Creatures

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

See: Loss. See Also: Love.

Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration

Daughters of Chaos

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

All Fours

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Why Labelle Matters

You’re Safe Here

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Women

Bear

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

The Lost Story

Whoever You Are, Honey

The Coin

youthjuice

Survival of the Thickest

Housemates

Love Is a Burning Thing

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

The Lady Waiting

State of Paradise

Women and Children First

Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Grown Women

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Carson McCullers: A Life

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Woman on Trial

American Girls: One Woman’s Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Perfume & Pain

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

The Bullet Swallower

The Dollar

California a Slave State

A History of Half-Birds: Poems

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

The Best That You Can Do

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity

Alice Sadie Celine

The Virgins

The Names of All the Flowers

The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

River East, River West

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

The Book of Ayn

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Goldenseal

Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

Your First Million: Why You Don’t Have to Be Born into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind

Saturn’s Return to New York

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global