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1. Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

Author: Mary Frances Phillips
Publication date: 2025

2. Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

Author: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Publication date: 2025

3. Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love

Author: Lida Maxwell
Publication date: 2025

4. Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

Author: Claire Hoffman
Publication date: 2025

5. Yoko: A Biography

Author: David Sheff
Publication date: 2025

6. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Camille Peri
Publication date: 2024

7. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Author: Judith Tick
Publication date: 2024

8. Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Author: Jane Kamensky
Publication date: 2024

9. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Author: Cynthia Carr
Publication date: 2024

10. Carson McCullers: A Life

Author: Mary V. Dearborn
Publication date: 2024

11. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Author: Natalie Dykstra
Publication date: 2024

12. Chop, Fry, Watch, Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

Author: Michelle T. King
Publication date: 2024

13. Didion and Babitz

Author: Lili Anolik
Publication date: 2024

14. Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

Author: Gail Crowther
Publication date: 2024

15. Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham

Author: Deborah Jowitt
Publication date: 2024

16. Forever Belle: Sallie Ward of Kentucky

Author: Randolph Paul Runyon
Publication date: 2024

17. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Author: Tiya Miles
Publication date: 2024

18. Nora Ephron at the Movies: A Visual Celebration of the Writer and Director behind When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and More

Author: Ilana Kaplan
Publication date: 2024

19. Riding like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publication date: 2024

20. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publication date: 2024

21. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Author: Sara B. Franklin
Publication date: 2024

22. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

Author: Edward F. O'Keefe
Publication date: 2024

23. The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady

Author: Heath Hardage Lee
Publication date: 2024

24. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

Author: Margalit Fox
Publication date: 2024

25. The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Author: Muriel Fox
Publication date: 2024

26. We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care before, during, and after Roe

Author: Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
Publication date: 2024

27. Zora Neale Hurston

Author: Cheryl R. Hopson
Publication date: 2024

28. A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Mark Borthwick
Publication date: 2023

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

Author: Melissa L. Sevigny
Publication date: 2023

30. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

Author: Benjamin Taylor
Publication date: 2023

31. Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

Author: Yunte Huang
Publication date: 2023

32. Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton's Politics

Author: Gary Scott Smith
Publication date: 2023

33. Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Author: Elizabeth Cobbs
Publication date: 2023

34. Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Author: Janet Wallach
Publication date: 2023

35. Janet Reno: A Life

Author: Judith Hicks Stiehm
Publication date: 2023

36. Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed

Author: Donald Bogle
Publication date: 2023

37. Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman Her Own Architect

Author: Kelly Hayes McAlonie
Publication date: 2023

38. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Author: Jennifer Wright
Publication date: 2023

39. Madonna: A Rebel Life

Author: Mary Gabriel
Publication date: 2023

40. Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

Author: Vincent Carretta
Publication date: 2023

41. Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble

Author: Madeleine Blais
Publication date: 2023

42. Reckoning

Author: V
Publication date: 2023

43. Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Author: Anastasia C. Curwood
Publication date: 2023

44. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Author: Kate Zernike
Publication date: 2023

45. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Author: Kerri K. Greenidge
Publication date: 2023

46. The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women's Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work

Author: Shannon Risk
Publication date: 2023

47. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence

Author: David Waldstreicher
Publication date: 2023

48. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Author: Liza Mundy
Publication date: 2023

49. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Author: Loren Grush
Publication date: 2023

50. A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

Author: Cathy Curtis
Publication date: 2022

51. Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publication date: 2022

52. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

Author: Sonya Y. Ramsey
Publication date: 2022

53. Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists: Unsung Women of the Black Liberation Movement

Author: Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
Publication date: 2022

54. Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies

Author: Lara Gabrielle
Publication date: 2022

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

Author: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Publication date: 2022

56. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

Author: Betsy Prioleau
Publication date: 2022

57. Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

Author: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
Publication date: 2022

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

Author: Hilary A. Hallett
Publication date: 2022

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

Author: Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert
Publication date: 2022

60. Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern: A Life

Author: Neil Baldwin
Publication date: 2022

61. Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army

Author: Rachael Hanel
Publication date: 2022

62. Queen of the Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte, 1852–1913

Author: Elisabeth Kehoe
Publication date: 2022

63. Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Author: Mayukh Sen
Publication date: 2022

64. The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

Author: Ellen Singer More
Publication date: 2022

65. Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Author: Elizabeth Farfán-Santos
Publication date: 2022

66. Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Author: Evette Dionne
Publication date: 2022

67. A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

Author: Connie Cronley
Publication date: 2021

68. All In: An Autobiography

Author: Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard, and Maryanne Vollers
Publication date: 2021

69. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Author: Tiya Miles
Publication date: 2021

70. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Author: Rebecca Donner
Publication date: 2021

71. An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's Rights

Author: Marguerite Kearns
Publication date: 2021

72. Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Author: P. Carl
Publication date: 2021

73. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Author: Anne Sebba
Publication date: 2021

74. Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

Author: Marilyn S. Greenwald and Li Yun
Publication date: 2021

75. Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

Author: Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publication date: 2021

76. Hannah Arendt

Author: Samantha Rose Hill
Publication date: 2021

77. In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

Author: Salamishah Tillet
Publication date: 2021

78. Indigenous Activism: Profiles of Native Women in Contemporary America

Editor: Clifford E. Trafzer, Donna L. Akers, and Amanda K. Wixon
Publication date: 2021

79. Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

Author: Julia Sweig
Publication date: 2021

80. Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice

Author: Ina C. Seethaler
Publication date: 2021

81. Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Author: Debby Applegate
Publication date: 2021

82. Sybille Bedford: A Life

Author: Selina Hastings
Publication date: 2021

83. Tania León's Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life

Author: Alejandro L. Madrid
Publication date: 2021

84. Templates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s

Author: Windy Counsell Petrie
Publication date: 2021

85. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publication date: 2021

86. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine

Author: Janice P. Nimura
Publication date: 2021

87. The Family Roe: An American Story

Author: Joshua Prager
Publication date: 2021

88. The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist

Author: Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Publication date: 2021

89. The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

Author: Jane Little Botkin
Publication date: 2021

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

Author: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Publication date: 2021

91. This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s

Editor: Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin
Publication date: 2021

92. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Author: Keisha N. Blain
Publication date: 2021

93. Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

Author: Ann Marks
Publication date: 2021

94. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Author: Kate Clifford Larson
Publication date: 2021

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

Author: Laura L. Lovett
Publication date: 2021

96. An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

Author: Chris Dubbs
Publication date: 2020

97. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Author: Judith E. Heumann and Kristen Joiner
Publication date: 2020

98. Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer

Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publication date: 2020

99. Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Editor: Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado
Publication date: 2020

100. Eleanor

Author: David Michaelis
Publication date: 2020