6 must-read feminism books like Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton

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Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a…

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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 Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

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2. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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3. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. The Long Form

By: Kate Briggs

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more

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"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

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5. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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6. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

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7. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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8. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
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11. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

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12. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

Similar categories in Ian Penman's Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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14. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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15. Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

By: Marie Darrieussecq

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French … read more

Similar categories in Marie Darrieussecq's Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

Similar categories in Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • feminism
  • pornography
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • essays
  • sociology
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18. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

By: Octavia Bright

4.32

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more

Similar categories in Octavia Bright's This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
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19. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
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20. Anything That Moves

By: Jamie Stewart

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves book and Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History

  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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21. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

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4.15

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3.90

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Deborah Levy

3.68

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