10 Top pop culture books like I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

Cover of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

By: Emily Nussbaum

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative colle…

"I'm its creature, the way we are all creatures of the art we care about, even if decide to throw it in a garbage can."

-Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

"I'm its creature, the way we are all creatures of the art we care about, even if decide to throw it in a garbage can."

-Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

If you liked the pop culture plot in I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

1. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • feminism
  • criticism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Cover of Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

2. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Cover of Brutalities: A Love Story by Margo Steines

3. Brutalities: A Love Story

By: Margo Steines

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more

Similar categories in Margo Steines's Brutalities: A Love Story book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"

-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story

Cover of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein

4. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

5. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

By: Rax King

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more

Similar categories in Rax King's Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
  • essays
Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Cover of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

7. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

8. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
Cover of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

9. I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

By: Emily Nussbaum

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative colle… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • film
  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • tv
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"I'm its creature, the way we are all creatures of the art we care about, even if decide to throw it in a garbage can."

-Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

10. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

11. Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

By: Lindy West

3.90

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy… read more

Similar categories in Lindy West's Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • film
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We’re going to make a fortune with this place,"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"Which, to be clear, I support. I was twenty-one in 2003, and tasteless shit isn’t just IN my blood, IT IS MY BLOOD. I crave excess!"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"From this point on, Edward is just constantly staring at Bella around corners and peeking at her from under manholes and disguising himself as a potted plant so he can watch her pee. Heads up: your c…"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"Chris Tucker gives Jackie Chan his LAPD ID and tells him to pretend to be LAPD if anything goes sideways in the Foo Chow restaurant. Jackie Chan looks at the ID with Chris Tucker’s picture on it and …"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

Cover of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

12. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • film
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Cover of Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living by Holly Trantham

13. Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living

By: Holly Trantham

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, full-color guide to living with money, not for money, packed with fun, tangible advice… read more

Similar categories in Holly Trantham's Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

15. Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

By: Yunte Huang

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of the Atlantic 's "Books to Get Lost in This Summer" Best Books of August 2023: InsideHook, W… read more

Similar categories in Yunte Huang's Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • film
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

16. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha   Harris

17. Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

By: Aisha Harris

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces of… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Harris's Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television by Thea Glassman

18. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

By: Thea Glassman

3.84

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more

Similar categories in Thea Glassman's Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

19. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

20. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation by Jim O'Heir

21. Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation

By: Jim O'Heir

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Jim O’Heir, best known for his role as Jerry (or Garry/Larry/Terry/Barry) on Parks and Recreation a… read more

Similar categories in Jim O'Heir's Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation book and Emily Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • tv

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