Is It Ever Just Sex?
By: Darian Leader
3.66
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian …
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1. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Kunskapens frukt
By: Liv Strömquist
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Liv Stromquists nya seriealbum Kunskapens frukt handlar om det som brukar kallas for det kvinnliga … read more
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3. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
4. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
By: Adam Phillips
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are. A… read more
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5. In Praise of Love
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Bush , Nicolas Truong
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casua… read more
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6. Los armarios vacíos
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, prol… read more
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"Farklılıkların paradan kaynaklanabileceği hiç aklıma gelmezdi, insanların doğuştan temiz ya da pasaklı, zevk sahibi ya da sallapati olduğunu sanırdım. Ayyaşlık, konserve et, kenefin yanındaki çiviye …"-Annie Ernaux, Los armarios vacíos
7. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
8. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
9. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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10. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Trinta segundos sem pensar no medo: Memórias de um leitor
By: Pedro Pacífico
4.21
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
Em livro de estreia, Pedro Pacífico, o Bookster, entrelaça momentos cruciais de sua vida com os liv… read more
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"Não existe pior ou melhor libro, mas o livro que, naquele momento, faz mais sentido para quem está lendo"-Pedro Pacífico, Trinta segundos sem pensar no medo: Memórias de um leitor
12. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
13. Copo Vazio
By: Natalia Timerman
3.51
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Um romance forte e sensível sobre perda, amor e abandono no mundo contemporâneo Mulheres abandon… read more
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14. Panics
By: Barbara Molinard
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradic… read more
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15. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
By: Virginia Woolf
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more
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"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
16. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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17. Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor?: Reddedilemeyecek Bir Felsefi Teklif
By: Çetin Balanuye
4.38
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
“Spinoza’nın Sevinci Nerden Geliyor? felsefenin tam da yaşamın içinden konuştuğu bir kitap. İnanılm… read more
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"Spinoza'ya göre insanın özgürlüğü ancak ve yalnızca kendisini belirleyen zorunlulukların, nedenselliklerin ya da genel anlamında etkileşimlerin farkına varmak anlamına gelir. (s. 71)"-Çetin Balanuye, Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor?: Reddedilemeyecek Bir Felsefi Teklif
18. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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19. (h)amor 9: amigas
By: Sandra Cendal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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20. Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
By: Satya Doyle Byock
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
21. Is It Ever Just Sex?
By: Darian Leader
3.66
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- sexuality
