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The Atlas of Untold Stories
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
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Storybook Ending
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The Busybody Book Club
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Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
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Bibliotherapy in the Bronx
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
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Sad Tiger
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
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A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work
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Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, and Under the Skin
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Artful
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The Reading List
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Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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A Novel Obsession
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
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Read Yourself Happy: How to Use Books to Ease Your Anxiety
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
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Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology
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Death of the Author
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The Book Eaters
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Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
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The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood
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Libby Lost and Found
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
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The Book Censor’s Library
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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
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Parasol Against the Axe
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Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
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The Word Pretty
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
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Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
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A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
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The Lost Story
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
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The Book of the Most Precious Substance
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Not Just Jane
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Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
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The Wishing Game
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The Wildest Sun
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Girl Reading
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The Absolute Book
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The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love 
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Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent
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Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
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The Vixen
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
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Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
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Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
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Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives
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Translating Myself and Others
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Glaciers
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How Can I Help You
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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A Library of Misremembered Books
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe
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A Horse at Night: On Writing
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A Likely Story
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People of the Book
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
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How to Read Now
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The Borrower
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Bookworm
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How to Suppress Women’s Writing
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Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
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What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books
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The Twyford Code
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The Bookseller at the End of the World
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Write for Your Life
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What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
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The Book of Goose
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
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The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
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Checkout 19
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
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Drinking with Dead Women Writers
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Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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The Thirteenth Tale
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The Library of the Unwritten
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Book Love
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The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People
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Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
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The Archive of the Forgotten
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Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters
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The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
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For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library
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The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction
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BiblioCraft: The Modern Crafter’s Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects
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Being Lolita: A Memoir
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Jane Austen: A Life
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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84, Charing Cross Road
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
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Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman
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Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
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Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom
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The Jane Austen Society
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
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Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London
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The Binding
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My Life in Middlemarch
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The Last Book Party
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The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers
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Beach Read
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
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The Clothing of Books
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Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing
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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
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The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
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The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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Literary Places
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Jane Austen at Home
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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
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Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland
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Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
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Writers & Lovers
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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In the Land of Men: A Memoir
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Treasure Island!!!
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
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Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
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The Secrets We Kept
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How To Read
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Dickens’ Women
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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
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Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
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Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
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Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
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Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
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Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines
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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
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Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
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Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained
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My Salinger Year
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Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
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