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Lonesome Traveler (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Kerouac, Jack

Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Popular Classics)

By John Cleland

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

Sula

By Toni Morrison

Under the Circumstances: A Woman's Guide to a Surrendered Heart

By Judy Hampton

Mud

By Emily Thomas

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Consent: A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence

By Vanessa Springora

84 Charing Cross Road

By Helene Hanff, Juliet Stevenson

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

A Stitch in Time

By Elsie Newman

No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley

By Rita Marley, Hettie Jones

And a Voice to Sing with

By Joan Baez

My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me

By Terri Thal, Elizabeth Thomson

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront

By Maureen Adams

Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story

By Judy Murray

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

By Alfred Habegger

Marlene Dietrich by Her Daughter

By Riva, Maria

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

By John Fowles, Jan Relf

Standing Out

By Katie Price

Belles on Their Toes

By Frank B Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

A Woman's Work

By Annie Spike

Green Oranges on Lion Mountain

By Emily Joy

Benazir Bhutto

By Sean Price

Better Against a Wall: Garden Writings

By Ursula Buchan

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia [Internation al Export Edition]

By Elizabeth Gilbert

Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be Hanged

By Robert Hancock

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

By David Yaffe

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler