Books like Spinster by Kate Bolick

Explore Michelle Obama’s public voice through 200‑250 curated quotations, organized into 75 themes, spanning her early career as a Chicago corporate lawyer, her roles in the city government and University of Chicago, up to the 2008 presidential election.

Michelle Obama chronicles her life from South Side Chicago to the White House, revealing the personal drive behind her public advocacy for women, families, and health.

After a life‑altering romance, Elizabeth Gilbert confronts her fear of marriage by researching its history and meaning, turning a personal dilemma into a witty, reflective exploration of love and commitment.

Barbara Ehrenreich revisits her teenage journals to trace a personal journey from scientific curiosity to mystical encounters, blending memoir with philosophical inquiry.

Jessica Valenti’s memoir, "Sex Object," recounts her New York City adolescence and young adulthood, exposing the everyday and extreme ways sexism shapes women’s lives through stories of harassment, assault, and personal struggle.

Mira Ptacin confronts the devastating loss of an unborn child while reflecting on her mother’s own tragedy of a deceased adopted son, a memoir that explores grief, free will, and the enduring bonds between mothers and daughters.

Katharine Weber’s intimate memoir traces the extraordinary stories of her American family—from composer Kay Swift and her love affair with George Gershwin to great‑grandfather Paul Warburg’s role in founding the Federal Reserve and a father who made OSS propaganda films.

Dani Shapiro’s memoir Hourglass is an intimate exploration of marriage, memory, and identity, charting the evolving bonds between a woman and her husband as she confronts love’s joys and challenges over time.

Melissa Febos’ Abandon Me is a candid memoir that explores family, love, and identity, weaving her upbringing, relationships, and desire into a raw, psychologically insightful narrative.

In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.

An intimate look at the life of children's book author Madeleine L'Engle through interviews with her friends and associates.