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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

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

The Planets

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories

Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

Alice James

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

The World She Edited

A Writer’s Diary

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation

In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

Korean Horror Cinema

Horror Noire

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

The Book of Hallowe’en

In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ghosts: A Haunted History

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

Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies

On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches

Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Witches: A Compendium

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

A Woman in the Polar Night

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

I Love Romcoms and I am a Feminist: A manifesto in 100 romcoms

The Natural History of Crime: Case Studies in Death and the Clues Nature Leaves Behind

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

Merkel’s Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

Women Out of Bounds

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion

Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Rehearsals for Living

Takedown :Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases

The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

A Short History of Queer Women

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Studio Musician: Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 Hit Bassist, Guitarist

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women

Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989

The Short Story of Women Artists

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960

Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance

Whiskey Tender

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

This Dark Country

Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime

The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant’s Reckoning from Salem to the Present

Tudor Feminists: 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Why Labelle Matters

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

The Lucky Ones

All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health