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

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

Animals Strike Curious Poses

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

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

If I Should Say I Have Hope

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

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

Here in the Dark

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

What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother

Wash Day Diaries

We All Want Impossible Things

Whore of New York: A Confession

Pity the Beast

Janis: Her Life and Music

Broken Horses

Lee Krasner: A Biography

Find It in Everything

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

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

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

Brutalities: A Love Story

Little Girl Lost

A Matter of Appearance

Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness

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

Enough

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Denim Diaries

Catching the Light

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

The Vixen

Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

Subway Art

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

Ana Turns

The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Company: Stories

Wrong Way

Dirtbag: Essays

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

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

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

Wandering through Life: A Memoir

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

Bright Young Women

Above the Salt

Duende

Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter

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

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

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

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

Third Eye

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

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

Like a Hole in the Head

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

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

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

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

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

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

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

When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead

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

Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories

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

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

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

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

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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

The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

Inverse Cowgirl

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

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

Revenge of the Scapegoat

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

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

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

Harriet the Spy

Breaking the Maafa Chain

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

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Life in the Iron Mills

Evening in Paradise: More Stories

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

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

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

Hang the Moon

Community Board

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

Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

The Kudzu Queen

Thin Skin: Essays

Romaine Brooks: A Life

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

Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope

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

An American Immigrant

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

The Living is Easy

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

Little Monsters

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Tomb Sweeping: Stories

The Pisces