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To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick—and How We Can Fight Back

Goblin Mode: How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck

This Was Meant To Find You

The Menopause Reset: Get Rid of Your Symptoms and Feel Like Your Younger Self Again

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

M(other)land: What I’ve Learnt About Parenthood, Race and Identity

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Once and Future Feminist

Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s

In Light-Years There’s No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life

Simple and Delicious Vegan

Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over

Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s

Body on Fire: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Illness and the Tools We Have to Fight It

If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

Fertility Rules: The Definitive Guide to Male and Female Reproductive Health

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set South America Ablaze

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages

Georgia O’Keeffe

Flora Tristan

Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

Wilder Journeys: True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism

Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars

The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover’s Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram

Exteriors

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Swapping, Borrowing and Renting

In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

The Power Code: More Joy. Less Ego. Maximum Impact for Women (and Everyone).

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for Cooks

The #Metoo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women

How to Live When You Could Be Dead

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide

Representing Women

The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills and Leave a Positive Impression

Adult Drama: And Other Essays

A Library of Misremembered Books

The Invention of the Restaurant (2nd Edition): Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture

Smart Sex: How to Boost Your Sex IQ and Own Your Pleasure

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

Feminism Against Progress

The first time I thought I was dying

Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care

I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Lipstick and Leather: On the Road With the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars

Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

I Always Knew: A Memoir

Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

The Art of Starting: How to Build Your Creative Business from the Ground Up

You’ve Got This: Seven Steps to a Life You Love

Weaving Big on a Little Loom: Create Inspired Larger Pieces

Will to Wild: Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life

Know Your Place

Ordinary Affects

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

On Women

Twist: An American Girl

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

Mama Still Got It

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

A Little History of Art

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All

Everything All at Once

You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War

Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet

Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues

What We Don’t Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life

Fashion Upcycling: The DIY Guide to Sewing, Mending, and Sustainably Reinventing Your Wardrobe

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women: Balance Your Hormones to Lose Weight, Lower Stress, and Optimize Health

Almost Brown

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

Where the Stress Falls

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine

Just as I Am

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

All In: An Autobiography

The Sacred Depths of Nature (2nd Edition): How Life Has Emerged and Evolved

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

All You Need to Know About Menopause

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

The Hundreds

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories

A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Difficult People

In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing

House of Print: A modern printer’s take on design, colour and pattern

Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Fight Like a Girl: An Empowering Self-Defence Guide for All Women

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Live or Die: Poems

Korean Patchwork Quilting: 37 Modern Bojagi Style Projects

Life Lessons from Hobbes

Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things

New to You: How to Buy, Fix, and Keep Secondhand Clothing

Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind

Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

When I Die I’m Going to Heaven ‘Cause I’ve Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Everything Is Negotiable: The 5 Tactics to Get What You Want in Life, Love, and Work

Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women

The Green Dumb Guide to Houseplants: 45 Unfussy Plants That Are Easy to Grow and Hard to Kill

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

A Forager’s Life

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

American Seoul

Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture

Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does, 2nd Edition

Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker

Will the Drama Ever End?: Untangling and Healing from the Harmful Effects of Parental Narcissism

What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love

Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way

Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film

How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Heartsick: Three Stories of Falling in Love . . . And What Happens After it Ends

The Shape of Knitting: A Master Class in Increases, Decreases, and Other Forms of Shaping

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

Mend & Patch: A handbook to repairing clothes and textiles

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

Kintsugi: The Wabi Sabi Art of Japanese Ceramic Repair

How to Be A Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back

Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion