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The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

Worn Stories

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

The Life of Elizabeth I

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

33 1/3: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Heroines

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

The Good Immigrant

Writing Feminist Lives: The Biographical Battles Over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Figuring

The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses

Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

The Stranger Beside Me

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

Femme Fatale: Love Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

Letters Home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence 1950-1963

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun

Fragments: Poems Intimate Notes, Letters by Monroe Marilyn

The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border

Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Marilyn Monroe: Her Films, Her Life

Pamela Hansford Johnson: A Writing Life

From Fed Up to Fabulous: Real Stories to Inspire and Unite Women World Wide

Jane Austen: A Brief Life

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen

Marilyn Norma Jeane

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Marlene Dietrich: The Life

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Making Trouble: Life and Politics

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher

The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque

Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, and Rumours