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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

The Undocumented Americans

Mae West: An Icon in Black and White

History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know

Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Sick: A Memoir

A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives

100 Nasty Women of History

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Virginia Woolf

Betsey: A Memoir

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

O’Keeffe

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me)

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart

Cleopatra: A Life

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition

Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains

Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

Anne Hutchinson: A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage

The White Mouse

In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

Iconic Women of Colour: The Amazing True Stories Behind Inspirational Women of Colour

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

More Myself: A Journey

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema

Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club

30 Women in Power

Joan of Arc: A History

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Jane Austen at Home

Voices of Powerful Women: Words of Wisdom from 40 of the World’s Most Inspiring Women

Girl Squads

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America

Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star

The Last of the Duchess

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Hons and Rebels

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

Dickens’s Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves & Impact

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

Fight Like a Girl

Untamed

Queens of the Kingdom: The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Vivian Maier: The Color Work

Agnès Varda

Suite for Barbara Loden

Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Madame Curie: A Biography

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

Behind Every Great Man: Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous

All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Women Artists, 1550-1950

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

The Da Vinci Women: Leonardo and the Revolutionary Portrayal of the Female Form

Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies

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

Edie: American Girl

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

F*** You Cancer: How to face the big C, live your life and still be yourself

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir

Diane Arbus: A Biography

Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

The Radical Lives of Helen Keller

Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society

Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Bad Blood

The Undying

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

In the Country of Women

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

H is for Hawk

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

Annie Leibovitz at Work

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis

Dickens’ Women

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

Wild Game

The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of the Cone Sisters, Matisse’s True Discoverers

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Joan of Arc: A Life

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution

Women: Our Story

Eleanor Marx: A Life

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know about

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Year of the Monkey

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

A To Z Of Women In Science And Math

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation