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If you loved Figuring by Maria Popova, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Women Artists, Women's Studies, Social History, and Art.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Social History

Toxic

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Social History

The House of Yan A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

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Themes: Women Artists • Social History • Art

Eve Bites Back An Alternative History of English Literature

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

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Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Art

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

Lucrezia Tornabuoni De’ Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century

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Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Art

Why Women Should Rule the World

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Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Science

#10

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty The Small Edition

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

#11

All That Heaven Allows A Biography of Rock Hudson

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Themes: Women Artists • Social History • Art

#12

Brilliant Exiles American Women in Paris, 1900-1939

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

#13

Openings A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992

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Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

#14

Electable Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet

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Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Science

#15

A Brief History of the Female Body An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

Deena Emera

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Science

#16

All in Her Head The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women’s Bodies and why it Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Science

#17

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen The Emotional Lives of Black Women

Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Science

#18

Men in Dark Times

Hannah Arendt

Themes: Social History • Art • Science

#19

Small Town Big Dreams The Life of Nancy Zeckendorf

Nancy Zeckendorf

Themes: Women Artists • Women's Studies • Art

#20

Record Collecting for Girls Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time

Courtney E. Smith

Themes: Women Artists • Art • Science

#21

Birth of the Chess Queen A History

Marilyn Yalom

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Art

#22

The Woman of the Eighteenth Century Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street

Edmond de Goncourt

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Art

#23

A Perfect Red Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

Amy Butler Greenfield

Themes: Women Artists • Social History • Art

#24

Normal Women 900 Years of Making History

Philippa Gregory

Themes: Women's Studies • Social History • Women

If Figuring by Maria Popova is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Women Artists, Women's Studies, Social History and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Maira Kalman, Sarah Ditum, Lan Yan, Anna Beer, and others.