As unapologetic and resilient as the DC neighborhoods they live in, these women challenge monolit...

Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a...

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherh...

'Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-bre...

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists ...

Finalist for the 2019 PEN Faulkner Award for FictionFinalist for the 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES...

'Rehearsals for Dying is a memoir that braids together the story of Ariel Gore's wife Deena's exp...

This classic pulp novel about three young women who leave behind their small-town roots for the b...

The most comprehensive personal essay collection by sex workers available, demanding change in a ...

Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essay...

A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black w...

A dizzying, immersive portrait of a never-ending Nakba, as lived and relived by one displaced Pal...

A Secret Woman

Chronic

Lying Perfectly Still

Beautiful photos of children being carried around the world showcase how families transport (and ...

A new edition of the post-apartheid literary classic by one of South Africa's greatest writers, w...

The Sexuality of Care

Visceral

The Lonely Girl's Vegetable Patch

Again, Harder

A punk revival of Medea as a meddling anti-angel of birth and death, from the International Booke...

Feral

A vibrant celebration of all the ways we move, from wheelchairs to skateboards! Featuring 30+ col...

The most visionary book on gender and sexuality today.

'Maggie Terry is the most beautiful, most bitter, most sweet, and all around best detective novel...

A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples wi...

This richly textured portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of...

A powerfully written memoir by a black woman artist in search of meaning and 'grace' in her famil...

What would a world that matched your values look like? Today's leaders envision the ideal future ...

It's 1999-and Michelle's world is ending. A dreamlike and dystopian meditation on sobriety, adult...

Marilyn French’s seven million copy bestseller The Women’s Room crystallized the issues that igni...

Cather and Flaubert's ultimate 'servants' provide piercing commentary on aging and individuals ta...

Call Home the Heart is the story of Ishma Waycaster, an impoverished woman who, pregnant for the ...

A woman's life and emotions during a difficult childbirth.

From the New York Times–bestselling author: “A rare find: a page-turning, can’t-put-it-down histo...

Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century

Introduced by award-winning author Renée Watson (Piecing Me Together), these folktales stand as a...

An Israeli girl’s coming of age is told through a diary addressed to Anne Frank in this powerful ...

One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of The Year

These fourteen women activists are working to protect their families and neighborhoods and to cha...

This enchanting story tells of two outsiders who find a deep kinship in each other. The Mer-Child...

“A startling, clear-eyed” memoir of an immigrant girl’s childhood in early 20th century NYC from ...

This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply “one of the greatest myst...

'A foul-mouthed Nancy Mitford for the Gawker generation.'

Beloved by readers of all ages since its first appearance in 1976, Allegra Maud Goldman tracks th...

$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2...

In legends spanning China to Canada, Sea Girl lays out a new mythology in which women and girls p...