15 must-read nonfiction books like Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory

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Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

By: Tracy Clark-Flory

3.84

Format: None pages, None

A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped h…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. So Sad Today: Personal Essays

By: Melissa Broder

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's So Sad Today: Personal Essays book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

With casual hookups and campus rape relentlessly in the news, parents can be forgiven for feeling a… read more

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4. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerabl… read more

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5. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • relationships
  • self help
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • audiobook
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

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6. 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 Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • 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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7. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos

By: Ángela García

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to … read more

Similar categories in Ángela García's The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Sex Object: A Memoir

By: Jessica Valenti

3.66

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Valenti's Sex Object: A Memoir book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

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9. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

Similar categories in Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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10. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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11. Kink: Stories

By: R.O. Kwon

3.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and i… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • sexuality
"Mr. Harris kept glancing up and down Omar’s body, lingering around his chest and his groin. At first, Omar pretended not to notice. It was a compulsive kind of looking, one that cis people indulged i…"

-R.O. Kwon, Kink: Stories

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12. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

Similar categories in Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • audiobook
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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13. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

By: Michele Filgate

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more

Similar categories in Michele Filgate's What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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14. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston

15. Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

By: Jen Winston

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more

Similar categories in Jen Winston's Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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16. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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17. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Chantal V. Johnson's Post-Traumatic book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • feminism
  • womens
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18. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • audiobook
Cover of Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory

19. Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

By: Tracy Clark-Flory

3.84

Format: None pages, None

A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped h… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • relationships
  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz

20. Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

By: Nona Willis Aronowitz

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, an… read more

Similar categories in Nona Willis Aronowitz's Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution book and Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • audiobook
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21. Notes from a Public Typewriter

By: Michael Gustafson

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A collection of confessional, hilarious, heartbreaking notes written anonymously on a public typewr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

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

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

3.66

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4.25

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3.99

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Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

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Amia Srinivasan

4.25

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