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To the Edge of the Sky

By Gao, Anhua

Notes on a Scandal

By Heller, Zoe, Zoƫ Heller

The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

By Hanauer, Cathi, Hanauer, Cathi

The Jane Austen Book Club

By Fowler, Karen Joy

The Nympho and Other Maniacs

By Wallace, Irving (1916-1990)

Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda

By Vadim, Roger

Facing the Music: The Autobiography

By Torvill, Jayne, Dean, Christopher

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives

By Davis, Natalie Zemon

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By Williams, Terry Tempest

Girl, Interrupted

By Kaysen, Susanna

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, J., Ms Janet

Doctors: Vintage Books Edition: The Biography of Medicine

By Nuland, Sherwin B.

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

By Bumiller, Elisabeth

Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark

By Hurwitz, Johanna, Johanna Hurwitz

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Walker, Alice

The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

By Williams, Esther, Diehl, Digby

Desert Blooms: A Personal Adventure in Growing Old Creatively

By Boyle, Sarah-Patton

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

By Beer, Edith Hahn, Dworkin, Susan, Hahn-Beer, Edith

Emma Hamilton

By Norah Robinson Lofts

Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad

By Geniesse, Jane Fletcher

Unveiled: Nuns Talking

By Loudon, Mary

Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

By Gordon, Lyndall

Virginia Woolf

By Lee, Hermione

Gwen John

By Roe, Sue

Precious Lives

By Forster, Margaret

Artemisia: The Story of a Battle for Greatness

By Lapierre, Alexandra, Heron, Liz

Good Wives?

By Margaret, Forster

Sky Burial

By Xinran

A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance

By Juska, Jane

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah