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The Book Eaters

Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood

Libby Lost and Found

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

The Book Censor’s Library

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Parasol Against the Axe

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

The Word Pretty

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays

The Extinction of Irena Rey

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

The Lost Story

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

The Book of the Most Precious Substance

Not Just Jane

Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

The Wishing Game

The Wildest Sun

Girl Reading

The Absolute Book

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

The Vixen

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

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

Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

Translating Myself and Others

Glaciers

How Can I Help You

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

A Library of Misremembered Books

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

A Horse at Night: On Writing

A Likely Story

People of the Book

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

How to Read Now

The Borrower

Bookworm

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History

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

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

The Twyford Code

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Write for Your Life

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

The Book of Goose

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

The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

Checkout 19

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

Drinking with Dead Women Writers

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

The Thirteenth Tale

The Library of the Unwritten

Book Love

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

The Archive of the Forgotten

Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library

The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction

BiblioCraft: The Modern Crafter’s Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects

Being Lolita: A Memoir

Jane Austen: A Life

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

84, Charing Cross Road

Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom

The Jane Austen Society

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London

The Binding

My Life in Middlemarch

The Last Book Party

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

Beach Read

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

The Clothing of Books

Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

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

Literary Places

Jane Austen at Home

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

Writers & Lovers

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

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

In the Land of Men: A Memoir

Treasure Island!!!

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book

The Secrets We Kept

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

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How To Read

Dickens’ Women

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

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

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

My Salinger Year

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Reading Lolita in Tehran