8 must-read sociology books like Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

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Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti…

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

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  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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4. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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5. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

Similar categories in Heather Radke's Butts: A Backstory book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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6. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • audiobook
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7. 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 Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • 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

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8. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

By: Karen Valby

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more

Similar categories in Karen Valby's The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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12. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

Similar categories in David Gibbins's A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • audiobook
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15. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • cultural
  • history
  • feminism
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
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18. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

By: Elise Hu

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more

Similar categories in Elise Hu's Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • cultural
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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20. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • feminism
  • historical
  • sociology
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • anthropology
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21. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

By: Anthony Veasna So

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meaning…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

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22. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

By: Megan Kimble

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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23. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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24. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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25. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

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26. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

By: Jill Burke

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more

Similar categories in Jill Burke's How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
Cover of Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan

27. Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

By: Anne Curzan

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the g… read more

Similar categories in Anne Curzan's Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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28. Silk: A World History

By: Aarathi Prasad

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more

Similar categories in Aarathi Prasad's Silk: A World History book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
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29. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • audiobook
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30. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • audiobook
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31. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

By: Tabitha Stanmore

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more

Similar categories in Tabitha Stanmore's Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic book and Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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