history – The Staircase Window

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

Home Matters: How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics

The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Boudicca

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, with a foreword from Margaret Atwood

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants

Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belse

Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England

Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion

Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army

Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine

Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women

Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women’s Rights in Canada

Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

The Rebel Romanov

Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life

This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

Sisters in Science

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me: Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia

A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

Pop Art

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

My Accidental Career

Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock

How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out

A Decolonial Feminism

Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine

Humans: A Monstrous History

Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor

Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World

Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

One Way Back

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Once upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics

Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe

Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology

Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Poet Warrior

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

The Origins Of Totalitarianism

The Weaker Vessel

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

A Map to the Door of No Return

An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

My Life: Growing Up Native in America

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

Connie: A Memoir

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Kingdom of No Tomorrow

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

The Jamestown Brides

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father, Lucian Freud

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

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Didion and Babitz

Nora Ephron at the Movies