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Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Fat Off, Fat On

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Time

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

The Wildest Sun

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Streetwise

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

Love and Money, Sex and Death

Wash Day Diaries

Whore of New York: A Confession

Janis: Her Life and Music

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty

Broken Horses

Lee Krasner: A Biography

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Brutalities: A Love Story

Little Girl Lost

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Enough

Your Voice in My Head

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Denim Diaries

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Catching the Light

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Subway Art

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Ana Turns

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Company: Stories

Dirtbag: Essays

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

The Wordy Shipmates

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Murder by Degrees

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Golden Gate

Holler, Child: Stories

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

Bright Young Women

Above the Salt

Duende

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

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

Class: A Memoir

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

My Home is Far Away: An Autobiographical Novel

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

Let Us Descend

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

The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel

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

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

A Well-Behaved Woman

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

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

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

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

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Like a Hole in the Head

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

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

My Name Is Barbra

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

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

The Thinking Reed

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

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

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

Absolution

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

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Straw Dogs of the Universe

The Reformatory

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

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

When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead

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

The Dead Take the A Train

The Old Maid

Good Women

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

All You Have to Do Is Call

The Wind Knows My Name

Black Friend: Essays

Down the Drain

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

One Blood

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

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

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

The World According to Joan Didion

Turn, Magic Wheel

A Woman of Property

First Gen

Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

Thicker Than Water

Omega Farm

The Woman in Me

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Leslie F*cking Jones

Everything Nothing Someone

Holler Rat

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

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

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

White Horse

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

Breaking the Maafa Chain

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Cannibal

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Gloria: A Life

Hang the Moon

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Time’s Mouth

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

The Kudzu Queen

Thin Skin: Essays

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

I’m Down

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies

An American Immigrant

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

Vampires of El Norte

The Living is Easy

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Little Monsters

Tomb Sweeping: Stories

The Pisces

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Acceptance: A Memoir

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

The Woods Are Waiting

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Inside the Wolf

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

House Woman

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

Tom Lake

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

Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life

King of the Armadillos

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Black Girl, Call Home

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence