10 must-read psychology books like Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer

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Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

By: Deborah Tuerkheimer

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence …

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Cover of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding

1. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It

By: Kate Harding

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest. Congressman Todd Akin's "legitimate" gaffe. The alleged rape crew … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
Cover of The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond by Patricia Evans

2. The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond

By: Patricia Evans

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. Electric Arches

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more

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  • feminism

4. Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

By: Jessica Valenti , Margaret Cho , Jaclyn Friedman

3.87

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Fron… read more

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5. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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6. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By: Roxane Gay

4.43

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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7. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America by Mark Follman

9. Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

By: Mark Follman

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change.” —John Carreyrou,  New York Times  be… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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11. Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

By: Ruby Warrington

3.86

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

What is “woman” if not “mother”? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditional… read more

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  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

13. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter

14. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

By: John McWhorter

3.95

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

4.35

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Rage became a layer of my skin."

-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."

-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."

-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."

-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

16. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

18. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne

4.21

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理,而应该理解成父权制(patriarchy)在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Cover of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder

20. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • crime
  • sociology
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Cover of Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

21. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

22. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O'Neil

23. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.39

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

24. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Magical Language of Others

By: E.J. Koh

3.87

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power by Rose Hackman

26. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

By: Rose Hackman

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more

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  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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27. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

By: Deborah Tuerkheimer

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence … read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic by Jillian Peterson

28. The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

By: Jillian Peterson

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evide… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
"it’s especially hard to change a conspiracy theorist’s mind, because their theories are “self-sealing,"

-Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

"Untreated childhood trauma can cause permanent damage, but even if a traumatic experience itself cannot be undone, early detection can largely resolve its impact, because children are resilient."

-Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

"If someone says they are thinking about suicide, there’s no need to panic. We don’t have to try to talk them out of it. We don’t have to try to solve it. We need only remain calm and listen. Truly, d…"

-Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

"our data on 133 completed and attempted school mass shootings over the past forty years show that there were no differences in the number of people killed or injured between schools that regularly ra…"

-Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

Cover of Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy

29. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

By: Kate Clancy

3.97

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Men… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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31. Solo: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own

By: Peter McGraw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Join the movement that celebrates single living with Peter McGraw’s groundbreaking book, Solo. A… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction

11 must-read womens books like Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer

Transform Your Habits

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

Transform Your Habits

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

Sarah Thornton

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

Ruby Warrington

3.86

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

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Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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Bari Weiss

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