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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution

Women: Our Story

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know about

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr

Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism

Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can’t So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life

This Will Only Hurt a Little

Work Like a Woman: A Manifesto for Change

Rising Strong

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Lakota Woman

In The Company Of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Rita Moreno: A Memoir

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Rebellious Feminism: Camus’s Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought

I’m the One That I Want

F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

The Wonder Down Under: A User’s Guide to the Vagina

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Sex Power Money

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of the Second Sex

Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies

Year of the Monkey

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s

Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

One Part Plant: 100 Meals for a Whole New You

It’s Always Something

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Dear Fatty

East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

Blood

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 4

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 2

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power

The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery

Ordinary Girls

The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

Self-Portrait As Your Traitor

The Witches Are Coming

Little Weirds

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

Becoming Vegan (Comprehensive Edition): The Complete Reference to Plant-based Nutrition

Becoming Vegan (Express Edition): The Everyday Guide to Plant-based Nutrition

How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything so They Can Achieve Anything

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

Memory-wise: How memory works and what to do when it doesn’t

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

Fearless & Fabulous: 10 Powerful Strategies for Getting Anything You Want in Life

The Anatomy of Silence

40 Days of Dating: An Experiment

#MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement

Salad for President: A Cookbook Inspired by Artists

Dear Client: This Book Will Teach You How to Get What You Want from Creative People

Preventing Workplace Harassment in a #MeToo World: A Guide to Cultivating a Harassment-Free Culture

Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation

The Self Care Prescription: Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety & Increase Wellbeing

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

The Boys of My Youth

Truth & Beauty

Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today

Women on Food

Women and Teaching: Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

The Great Vegan Protein Book: Fill Up the Healthy Way with More than 100 Delicious Protein-Based Vegan Recipes

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Represent: The Woman’s Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World

Excuse Me: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women

Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny

So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

One-Dish Vegan: More than 150 Soul-Satisfying Recipes for Easy and Delicious One-Bowl and One-Plate Dinners

Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

N’ice Cream: 80+ Recipes for Healthy Homemade Vegan Ice Creams

Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers

Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1939-1947)

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics

Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

How Did You Get This Number

Incidental Inventions

Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

Conversations with Uncommon Women

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

High Protein Vegan: Hearty Whole Food Meals, Raw Desserts and More

Is It Just Me?

Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

In the Dream House

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide

Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Chasing the Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, and Write Your Own Story

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes

Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom

A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Absolutely

Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur

Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

A Sick Life: TLC ‘n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organization

A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases

Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and “Woman’s Voice” Television

White Tears / Brown Scars

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress

Memoirs from the Women’s Prison

Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist Visionary

A Piece of Cake

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

The Little Book of Speaking Up: Find Your Voice in 5 Minutes a Day—with 65 Whole-Body Exercises

Smith & Deli-cious: Food From Our Deli (That Happens to be Vegan)

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt’s First Feminist

A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

Women in Western Political Thought

Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Women: The Last Colony

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture