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

Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All

Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

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

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide

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

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 Hurting Kind: Poems

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

Bow Down: Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Be a Boss in Life, Love, and Work

Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

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

The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics

A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star

Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art

Path of Totality: Poems

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Unlock Your Storybook Heart

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

Acne: A Memoir

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Poukahangatus: Poems

Everything is Figureoutable

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

Alicia: My Story

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Butts: A Backstory

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait

Not One of These Poems Is About You

Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Honest Answers: Interview and Negotiation Skills to Get to the Truth

The Lonely Hunter: How the Search for Love Is Broken

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

The First Four Books of Poems

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

Black Internet Effect

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Crying in H Mart

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Ma and Me

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

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

Call Us What We Carry

Why Women Are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma

Nora Ephron: A Biography

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

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

Action: A Book About Sex

Vera Rubin: A Life

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Look At This If You Love Great Art: 100 essential artworks that really matter

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems

Hot and Unbothered: How to Think About, Talk About, and Have the Sex You Really Want

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

The Essential Ellen Willis

How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

Ten Steps to Nanette

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

The Little Book of Snow

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

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

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

The World’s Worst Assistant

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

I’m Glad My Mom Died

The Wreckage of My Presence

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

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

This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women

Somebody’s Daughter

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives

On Juneteenth

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

Loud

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

Men Who Hate Women – From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Fix the System, Not the Women

Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

The Soul of a Woman

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

Aftershocks: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country

Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Finding Me

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Upper Bohemia: A Memoir

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Girl Explorers

Notes on Grief

Ladies Get Paid: The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

The Story of Art without Men

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

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

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Ladyparts

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People

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

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Come, Thief

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

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

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

Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for Your Mind, Body, and Spirit

home body

I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are

Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Complete BPD Guide for Managing Your Emotions and Improving Your Relationships

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

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction

The Power of Privilege: How White People Can Challenge Racism

The Cannabis Apothecary: A Pharm to Table Guide for Using CBD and THC to Promote Health, Wellness, Beauty, Restoration, and Relaxation

A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks

The ADHD-Autism Connection: A Step Toward More Accurate Diagnoses and Effective Treatments

A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time

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

Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

The Everything Plant-Based Meal Prep Cookbook: 200 Easy, Make-Ahead Recipes Featuring Plant-Based Ingredients

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

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics