11 Top nonfiction books like Freedom by Margaret Atwood

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Freedom

By: Margaret Atwood

3.36

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and…

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1. The Slap

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet … read more

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  • literature
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2. Brother of the More Famous Jack

By: Barbara Trapido

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Gol… read more

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3. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • feminism
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4. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

By: Angela Saini

4.06

Format: 285 pages,

From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentall… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Liberty

By: Virginia Woolf

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines… read more

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  • feminism
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • short stories

6. The Architecture of Happiness

By: Alain de Botton

3.57

Format: None pages,

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our en… read more

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7. The Beautifull Cassandra

By: Jane Austen

3.62

Format: 320 pages,

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more

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8. Searching for Caleb

By: Anne Tyler

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful… read more

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9. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By: Elizabeth Smart

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more

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10. Love: Vintage Minis

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but… read more

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11. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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12. A Patchwork Planet

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

For the first time in mass market paperback, this novel introduces 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitl… read more

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13. All Our Yesterdays

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Angus Davidson

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

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14. Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

By: Tim Parks

4.40

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

This is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Park's (a.k.a. Joh… read more

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15. Vile Bodies

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more

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16. Terres mortes

By: Núria Bendicho Giró

4.05

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

Una novel·la gòtica i calidoscòpica que desplega un univers atàvic. El magnètic debut de Núria Bend… read more

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"He still had that look of shame, the only thing for which men cannot forgive themselves."

-Núria Bendicho Giró, Terres mortes

"Over time, I’d come to realise that evil is like morphine. At first a little is enough, but then you need more and more to feel good, especially if you have an audience you don’t want to disappoint w…"

-Núria Bendicho Giró, Terres mortes

"That’s when I realised it was all a game of chess. A game with too many checkmates for one board, and maybe too many pawns, with an enraged queen aiming to topple a king that fate had already forgive…"

-Núria Bendicho Giró, Terres mortes

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17. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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18. Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.86

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more

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  • feminism
"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

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19. Sie sagt. Er sagt.

By: Ferdinand von Schirach

4.17

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Katharina Schlüter, eine erfolgreiche TV-Moderatorin, behauptet, ihr ehemaliger Geliebter habe sie … read more

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20. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Margaret Atwood's Freedom

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Efter solen

By: Jonas Eika

3.18

Format: 159 pages, None

Vinder af Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2019 Noveller om en række personer, der, vidende eller uvi… read more

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  • short stories
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22. Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

By: Katherine Rundell

4.10

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise book and Margaret Atwood's Freedom

  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place."

-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

"But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th Pres…"

-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

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23. Qué hacer con estos pedazos

By: Piedad Bonnett

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A sus sesenta y cuatro años, Emilia se enfrenta a la remodelación de su cocina, presionada por el m… read more

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"La muerte nos hace entender que a partir decierto momento ya no podemos poder"

-Piedad Bonnett, Qué hacer con estos pedazos

"A veces el dolor es eléctrico. Como una descarga que atraviesa la carne. Cuánto de cero a diez, pregunta su médico en cada consulta. A veces cinco, a veces siete, a veces nueve, responde ella, pero l…"

-Piedad Bonnett, Qué hacer con estos pedazos

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24. Slug

By: Hollie McNish

4.51

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more

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  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
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25. Endgame (Killing Eve #3)

By: Luke Jennings

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

As Villanelle returns to face her childhood demons and the Russian winter, Eve finds herself on the… read more

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26. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

By: Regan Penaluna

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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27. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
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28. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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29. Freedom

By: Margaret Atwood

3.36

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Freedom book and Margaret Atwood's Freedom

  • classics
  • literature
  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
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30. Gegen Frauenhass

By: Christina Clemm

4.75

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

„Alle, wirklich alle Frauen können betroffen sein. Und alle, wirklich alle Männer können Täter sein… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Money

By: Yuval Noah Harari

3.92

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be inve… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

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3.97

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4.10

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Regan Penaluna

3.94

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3.36

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3.32

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Wendy Cope

4.19

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4.51

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