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…
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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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- feminism
- womens
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
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- audiobook
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
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- relationships
- self help
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- womens
- audiobook
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
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- womens
- audiobook
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
