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

bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

The World According to Joan Didion

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Anna: The Biography

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

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

Artemisia Gentileschi

Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

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

Gloria: A Life

Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow

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

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

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

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Romaine Brooks: A Life

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

Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art

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

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

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

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits

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

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

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

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival

The Art of Dora Carrington

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Goddesses and Heroines: Meet More Than 80 Powerful Women From Around the World

No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity

Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

All I Need to Know I Learned from the Golden Girls: Bigger, Better, Blanchier Second Edition

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

Georgia O’Keeffe

Flora Tristan

Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

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

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker

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

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You?

It’s a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World’s Greatest Street Artists

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

Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

The First Lady of World War II

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

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

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

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

50 Women Artists You Should Know

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

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

Women Artists

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

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

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

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

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

Letters from Tove

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

Cat Power: A Good Woman

Jennifer Juniper

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

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

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

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

The True History of Merlin the Magician

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

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

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks

Women Who Made Science History

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

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History

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

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst

Helen of Troy

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three

What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

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

Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Refocus: The Films of Elaine May

Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

She Memes Well

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

B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Forty Favours The Brave

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Re-sisters: Recordings of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Delia Derbyshire and Margery Kempe

Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Why Patti Smith Matters

Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: The Extraordinary Life and Gardens of a Forgotten Genius

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Hilma af Klint: A Biography

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Extraordinary Women In History: 70 Remarkable Women Who Made a Difference, Inspired & Broke Barriers

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

The Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and Other Regal Women

Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley, 1530-1603

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Nora Ephron: A Biography

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Vera Rubin: A Life

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women