5 must-read feminism books like Know My Name by Chanel Miller

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Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

4.70

Format: 384 pages, ebook

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b…

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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1. When Breath Becomes Air

By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi

4.40

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's When Breath Becomes Air book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

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2. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • feminism
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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4. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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5. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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6. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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7. The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

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8. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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9. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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10. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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11. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

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12. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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14. Educated

By: Tara Westover

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more

Similar categories in Tara Westover's Educated book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

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15. Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more

Similar categories in Viola Davis's Finding Me book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy

4.46

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her strugg… read more

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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17. Crying in H Mart

By: Michelle Zauner

4.26

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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18. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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19. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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20. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

4.70

Format: 384 pages, ebook

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Know My Name book and Chanel Miller's Know My Name

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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