A list of nonfiction books to learn more about female bodies, health, sexuality and needs in a world mostly designed by men for men.
created by Pignurin
last updated August, 2026
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide
Zoe Mendelson
My Broken Vagina: One Woman's Quest to Fix Her Sex Life, and Yours
Fran Bushe
Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution
Sarah Graham
A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
Deena Emera
How the Female Body Works: (In all its wild, miraculous glory)
Polly Vernon
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Sarah Thornton
It's Probably Your Hormones: From Appetite to Sleep, Periods to Sex Drive, Balance Your Hormones to Unlock Better Health
Mary Ryan
It’s Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women’s Health Crisis (and How to Thrive Despite It)
Naga Munchetty
The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health
Marina Gerner
You Can Have A Better Period
Le'Nise Brothers
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Katherine Angel
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science
Mary Roach
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies
Nancy Friday
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
Heather Corinna
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon
Her Blood Is Gold: Celebrating the Power of Menstruation
Lara Owen
I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
Rebecca Little
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Maya Dusenbery
Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
Gabrielle Jackson
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
Jen Gunter
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Elizabeth Comen
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
Karen Tang
The Vagina Monologues
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor Cleghorn
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Rachel E. Gross
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski
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