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On Violence

Start Right Where You Are: How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers, and Recovering Perfectionists

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

What Do Women Want?: Exploding the Myth of Dependency

Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It

The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy

Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe

The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter

How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life

How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You

How to Be Nice to Yourself: The Everyday Guide to Self-Compassion: Effective Strategies to Increase Self-Love and Acceptance

Good Thinking: A Teenager’s Guide to Managing Stress and Emotion Using CBT

Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, and Design a More Purposeful Life

Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry

Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Own It: Make Your Anxiety Work for You

A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

Goddesses in Everywoman

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Empty

Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World

Ugly Feelings

You Again

Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement

The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care: Do Less, Achieve More, and Live the Life You Want

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Breaking Mad: The Insider’s Guide to Conquering Anxiety

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship

Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World

Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

24/6 The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Why Bother: Discover the Desire for What’s Next

Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy

Stray

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bystander Effect

The Strength In Our Scars

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

Nobody Is Ever Missing

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

The Psychology of Gender

In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

How Art Can Make You Happy

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

The Introvert’s Guide to the Workplace: Concrete Strategies for Bosses and Employees to Thrive and Succeed

The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

All About Love: New Visions

You Deserve the Truth: Change the Stories that Shaped Your World and Build a World-Changing Life

Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs

What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

The Complete Book of Dreams: A Practical Guide to Interpretation and Creative Dreaming

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

The Dream Dictionary from A to Z: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Understanding Hoarding

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy and Find Personal Happiness

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies

How Music Can Make You Better

It’s OK to Feel Things Deeply

Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate

Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

Small Acts of Disappearance

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

You Got This: Face Your Fear. Find Your Confidence.

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

The Empathy Exams

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief

A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working for You

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Feminist Spirituality Under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads

A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and You

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

Speaking From The Heart: Gender And The Social Meaning Of Emotion

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Ask: Building Consent Culture

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure our Lives, Behaviour, and Well-Being

The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly

The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD

If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls

An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir

The Burnout Generation

Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way

The Atlas of Happiness

What If This Were Enough?

The Crying Book

Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence

How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Happy Never After: why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (and how I flipped the script)

You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want

Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Human Relationships

The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy

The Middle Finger Project: Trash Your Imposter Syndrome and Live the Unf*ckwithable Life You Deserve

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

I Never Called It Rape – Updated Edition: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape

The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationships You Want

The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

Brother & Sister: A Memoir

Find Your F*ckyeah: Stop Censoring Who You Are and Discover What You Really Want (Happiness and Self Help Books, Motivational Self Help)

Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, (and Liking Your Life)

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility

The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis