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Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Live or Die: Poems

Vagablonde

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

American Seoul

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker

What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

Forty Years in the Wilderness

It’s All Love: Reflections for Your Heart & Soul

Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney

Paper Names

What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Rogue Justice

While Justice Sleeps

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

The Sorrows of Others

The First Lady of World War II

Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Tell Me Everything

New York in the Thirties

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

Wildflower: A Memoir

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman

Chita: A Memoir

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

Dykette

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

The Guest

Kick the Latch

With or Without You

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Homebodies

Blackacre

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

A Likely Story

Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

Distortions

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

Memphis

Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir

Ordinary Notes

Horse

March

Demon Copperhead

Homesick

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Muse Found in a Colonized Body

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

Stash: My Life in Hiding

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

Hangsaman

Cat Power: A Good Woman

Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Adelaide

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Sum of Us

Women Are The Fiercest Creatures

Spectra

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Daughters of Nantucket

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

Crying in the Bathroom

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Paris: The Memoir

The Crane Husband

The God of Endings

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Hoop Muses: An Insider’s Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women’s) Game

Big Swiss

The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Black Wolf

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Natural Beauty: A Novel

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

The Next New Syrian Girl

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

A Manual for How to Love Us

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Standing Her Ground: Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Hysterical: A Memoir

Homegirls and Handgrenades

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Border Vista: Poems

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World

This Will Be Funny Later

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Love Yourself Well: An Empowering Wellness Guide to Supporting Your Gut, Brain, and Vagina

A Creative Rebel’s Guide to Winning the Game of Life

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (and Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer

We Play Ourselves

Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond

They’re Going to Love You

You Must Be This Happy to Enter

Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Ain’t I a Woman?

Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth

Lorna Simpson Collages:

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Garden of Ashes (Hanuman, Book No. 34)

Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls

Big Time: Stories

Refocus: The Films of Elaine May

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound

She Memes Well

Our Share of Night

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie

Nevada

My Last Innocent Year

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Short Stories

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

FAME-ISH: My Life at the Edge of Stardom

Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

Easy Beauty

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Yield: The Journal of an Artist

Why Patti Smith Matters

Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

The World Deserves My Children

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Pickleball for All: Everything but the “Kitchen” Sink

Out of the Corner

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Dear Dana