Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
By: Sarah Perry
3.50
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and…
Want to Read $ 5.70"I suppose I am not alone in having once been oblivious to what I owed to women before me, and to the notion that I ought to find ways of repaying the debt."-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
"It has become a habit to conceive of women - both historically and currently - not by their achievements, but by the restraints placed upon them; to study the locked door, and fail to see the windows broken from inside."-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
"So Anne Knight holds up her placard, and fixes the dubious observer with her pale unblinking eyes. "Woman has the capacity for instructing man," she wrote, and her toils "have strengthened her mind and matured her judgement till she is now superior to man..."-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
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1. Fen
By: Daisy Johnson
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."-Daisy Johnson, Fen
"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"-Daisy Johnson, Fen
2. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
By: Richard G. Wilkinson , Kate E. Pickett
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"... When infectious diseases lost their hold as the major causes of death, the industrialised world underwent a shift, known as the 'epidemiological transition' and chronic diseases, such as heart di…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psycholigst and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' virus…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psychologist and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' viru…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. The Feminine Mystique
By: Anna Quindlen , Betty Friedan , Gail Collins
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and … read more
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- history
- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- womens
5. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
By: Owen Jones
4.09
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
6. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
7. The Beauty Myth
By: Naomi Wolf
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female ident… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Only God, my dear,"-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Women are mere “beauties"-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Health makes good propaganda."-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
"Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics."-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
8. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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- feminism
- womens
9. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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10. Books v. Cigarettes
By: George Orwell
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's … read more
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11. The Dig
By: John Preston
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk the… read more
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12. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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13. Dark Tales
By: Shirley Jackson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more
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14. Darling
By: India Knight
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
15. The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
3.53
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more
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- womens
- audiobook
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
16. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- essays
- audiobook
17. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
18. 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
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- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
19. The Book Club
By: C.J. Cooper
3.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Can you trust the woman next door? _______________ The book club was her idea, of course. Ali… read more
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20. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
21. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
22. The House Hunt
By: C.M. Ewan
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Your estate agent calls. She’s running late and needs you to show a man around your home. You… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County
By: Tim Burrows
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, co… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. 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
- audiobook
"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
25. Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
By: Ruby Tandoh
4.12
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
In Eat Up, Ruby Tandoh celebrates the fun and pleasure of food, taking a look at everything from gl… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
"All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the…"-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
26. Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
By: Sarah Perry
3.50
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and… read more
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- history
- british literature
- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- audiobook
"I suppose I am not alone in having once been oblivious to what I owed to women before me, and to the notion that I ought to find ways of repaying the debt."-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
"It has become a habit to conceive of women - both historically and currently - not by their achievements, but by the restraints placed upon them; to study the locked door, and fail to see the windows…"-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
"So Anne Knight holds up her placard, and fixes the dubious observer with her pale unblinking eyes. "Woman has the capacity for instructing man," she wrote, and her toils "have strengthened her mind a…"-Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
27. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. Babylonia
By: Costanza Casati
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more
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29. Excellent Essex
By: Gillian Darley
3.59
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
IN PRAISE OF ENGLAND'S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTY It's time we talked about Essex. It's the county… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Yr Dead
By: Sam Sax
4.28
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this… read more
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31. Le storie di mia zia (e di altri parenti)
By: Ugo Cornia
3.33
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Profonda provincia modenese. Una multiforme famiglia - padre, madre, zii e zie, prozie, nonni, bisn… read more
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