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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

The World Deserves My Children

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Out of the Corner

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

Write for Your Life

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Dear Dana

This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family

Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal

The Years

The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Soulbriety: A Plan to Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul

Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Acne: A Memoir

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Alicia: My Story

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

The Lonely Hunter: How the Search for Love Is Broken

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Crying in H Mart

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Ma and Me

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall

I Still Have It . . . I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Ten Steps to Nanette

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

The World’s Worst Assistant

I’m Glad My Mom Died

The Wreckage of My Presence

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Somebody’s Daughter

On Juneteenth

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Loud

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

The Soul of a Woman

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country

Finding Me

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Upper Bohemia: A Memoir

Notes on Grief

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

Ladyparts

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

home body

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are

Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu: Letters from India & Nepal, 1966-1972

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating and Publishing Your Personal Story

Watching the Tree

Film for Her

The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

An American Sunrise

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll: Thirty Years Married to a Rolling Stone

The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

No One Asked for This: Essays

It Takes Blood and Guts

I, Bificus

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Sinners Welcome

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Drunk Mom

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Friends and Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue

Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories

Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Lucky

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

Life In Pieces

The Cancer Journals

A Manual for Heartache

Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

Walking with the Muses: A Memoir

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Golem Girl

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story

Nerve

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

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

Solutions and Other Problems

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Having and Being Had

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

Boys in the Trees

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

Seeing the Body: Poems

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir

A Knock at Midnight

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

My Own Words

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

More Than a Woman

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy

The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me

Marlene Dietrich’s ABC

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

Letters to a Young Therapist

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

Raising a Rare Girl

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm –And Built a New Life

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Vesper Flights

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better

Intimations

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir

I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

My Life as a Villainess