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Becoming
Michelle Obama
Autobiography
Gigged
Sarrah Kessler
Future of work
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
Technology
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schummer
Comedy
Founders at work
Jessica Livingston
Technology
Big Data
Timandra Harkness
Technology
Earning it
Joann S. Lublin
Business
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Sara Wachter - Boettcher
Technology
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Pratima Rao Gluckman
Business, Technology
We Are The Nerds: The birth and Tumultuous Life of REDDIT, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Business, Technology
Decoding Silicon Valley: The Insider's Guide
Michelle E. Messina
Technology, Business
Startup
Doree Shafir
Technology, Fiction
Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
Samantha Parent Walravens
Technology, Future of work
From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play
Carroll Pursell
Technology, Games
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Virginia Heffernan
Technology
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Duhnam
Womanhood, Autobiography
The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodities Traders
Kelly Kate
Business
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Kain
Self
Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
Anita Elberse
Business
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
Gina Keating
Technology
#GIRLBOSS
Sophia Amorouso
Business, Autobiography
Yes Please
Amy Poehler
Comedy
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Sarah Silverman
Comedy
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Autobiography
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Jane McGonigal
Technology, Games
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games
Jane McGonigal
Self, Games
Infomocracy
Malka Ann Older
Fiction
Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories
Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack
Technology, Future of work
Female Innovators at Work: Women on Top of Tech
Danielle Newnham
Technology, Future of work
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mar
Nathalia Holt
Autobiography
Feminist Fight Club
Jessica Bennet
Future of work
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next On
Jenny Blake
Technology
Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology
Vivek Wadhwa, Farai Chideya
Technology
Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
Randi Zuckerberg
Technology
The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life
Meg Whitman
Business, Autobiography
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher
Business
Hardball for women
Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan Golant
Business
Grit: Why Passion and Resilence are the Secret to Success
Angela Duckworth
Self
Life in Code
Ellen Ulman
Technology
Reset
Ellen Pao
Technology
Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani
Futire of work
Brotopia
Emily Chang
Technology
Saving Bletchley Park: How socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers
Sue Black
Technology
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
Self
Dear Female Founder: 66 Letters of Advice from Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Made $1 Billion in Revenue
Lu Li
Technology, Autobiography
Thrive
Arianna Huffington
Technology, Autobiography, Business
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes
Autobiography, Business
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy Hood
Autobiography, Business
Own It: The Power of Women at Work
Sallie Lee Krawcheck
Autobiography, Business
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
Technology, Business
Women Design
Libby Sellers
Design
100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People
Susan Weinschenk
Design
Design for Real Life
Sara Wachter - Boettcher, Eric Meyers
Design
The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Future of work
Big Rabbit's Bad Mood
Ramona Badescu
Children
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favili
Children
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Agozi Adichie
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
Letter To My Daughter
Maya Angelou
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo
Self
Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose
Jean Casse
Self
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Agozi Adichie
Self
Like A Mother
Angela Garbes
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
The Motherhood Affidavits
Laura Jean Baker
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
And Now We Have Everything
Meaghan O’Connell
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
Motherhood
Sheila Heti
Self, Autobiography, Children, Motherhood
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Technology, Autobiography
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Self, Autobiography
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
Rachel Hollis
Self
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brene Brown
Self
Bossy Pants
Tina Fey
Autobiography, Self, Business, Comedy
I'm Just a Person
Tig Notaro
Autobiography, Self, Comedy
Lab Girl
Hope Aihren
Autobiography, Self, Science
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
Robert Burleigh
Autobiography, Technology
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code (Hardcover)
Laurie Wallmarl
Children, Science
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
Stephanie Roth Sisson
Children
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
Jeanette Winter
Children, Technology
Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing
Lucy Knisley, Dean Robbins
Technology, Autobiography
The Other Einstein: A Novel
Marie Benedict
Autobiography, Self, Science
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
Jill McElmurry, H. Joseph Hopkins,
Autobiography
Screen Queens
Lori Goldstein
Fiction
The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
Marie Benedict
Autobiography
Carnegie's Maid:A Novel
Marie Benedict
Autobiography
Love Rules: How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World
Joanna Coles
Self
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying
Sarah Cooper
Business, Comedy
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Leslie Berlin
Techology, Business
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at Schoo
Carla Shalaby
Children, Motherhood
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Katy Tyr
Autobiography, Media
Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir
Sally Quinn
Autobiography, Media
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott
Business
I am Jane Goodall (Ordinary People Change the World)
Brad Meltze
Children, Science
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Merve Emre
Self
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Lisa Crispin / Janet Gregory
Technology
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
Linda Rising
Business
The Four Tendencies
Gretchen Rubin
Self
The User's Journey: Storymapping Products that People Love
Donna Lichaw
Technology, Design
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
Melissa Perri
Technology
Why Not Me?
Mindy Kailing
Self, Comedy, Autobiography
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Vanessa Van Edwards
Self, Management
Predictable Prospecting: How to Radically Increase Your B2B Sales Pipeline
Marylou Tyler
Business
For God's Sake! Work By The Book: Management Explained From Within
Sarah Zohn
Business
Good and Mad
Rebecca Traister
Self, Business
Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation
Linda Babcock
Business
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
Self
Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Deborah Kolb
Business
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results
Christina Wodtke
Self, Business
What Happened
Hillary Clinton
Autobiography
Dare to Lead
Brene Brown
Business
How to Be a Bawse
Lilly Singh
Business
Homecoming
Yaa Gyasi
Fiction
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
Autobiography
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor
Young Adult
The Mortal Instruments series
Cassandra Clare
Young Adult
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord
Business, Technology
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl
Technology
The New CSS Layout
Rachel Andrew
Technology
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know
Katty Kay, Claire Shipman
Business, Technology
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Ellen Ulman
Business, Technology
Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field
Nicki Washington
Business, Technology
Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
Technology
Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Umoja Noble
Technology
Cracking the Coding Interview
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Technology
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Evans
Technology, Business
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy
Technology
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Business
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Pamela Druckerman
Motherhood
Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding
Linda Liukas
Children
Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer
Linda Liukas
Children
Hello Ruby: Expedition to the Internet
Linda Liukas
Children
The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
Jodie Patterson
Self
UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice
Myisha Cherry
Self
The Design of Chiildhood
Alexandra Lange
Children, Motherhood
Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Alice Rawsthorn
Design
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Debbie Millman.
Design
Badass: Making Users Awesome
Kathy Sierra
Design
Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
Alla Kholmatova.
Design
The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption
Farai Chideya
Future of work
The Multi-Hyphen Method
Emma Gannon
Future of work
Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
Autobiography
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
Business
Uterus is a feature
Sarah Lacy
Technology, Self
Dear Girls
Ali Wong
Self, Children, Motherhood