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Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

By Lois Pryce

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

By Fiona Gell

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

By Simon Garfield

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

Back from Africa

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

By Ellie Taylor

One Born Every Minute: Real Stories from the Delivery Room

By Dore, Maria

SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix

By BB Easton

Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond!

By Emily Atack

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By Kim Donovan

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter

By Azar Nafisi

A Cry from the Heart: A Biography of Edith Piaf

By Margaret Crosland

Magda Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

From MTV to Mecca

By Kristiane Backer

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

A Voice Reborn

By Kyra Vayne, Sue Lawley

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral: A Novel

By Kris Radish

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

Hidden Lights: Women of Courage

By Joan Blaney, Barbara Follett

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse: 1 of Pitchfork's 10 Best Music Books of 2023

By Howard Fishman