Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
By: Linda Nochlin
4.40
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Linda Nochlin is one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time…
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1. The Whitsun Weddings
By: Philip Larkin
3.92
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoki… read more
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- literature
"What will survive of us is love."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer "-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
By: Sue Townsend
2.95
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted… read more
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"She was alone. She missed him immediately."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"She had always been comforted by confectionery"-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
4. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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- literature
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
5. The Goblin Emperor
By: Katherine Addison
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more
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6. The Golden Notebook
By: Doris Lessing
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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- literature
- feminism
7. The Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
8. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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- feminism
9. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- essays
10. V for Vendetta
By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more
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11. 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
- 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
12. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- nonfiction
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
13. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
By: Griselda Pollock
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The publication of 'Vision and Difference' marked a milestone in the development of modern art hist… read more
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14. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
15. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
By: Anne Carson
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and … read more
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- feminism
"Oh my darlings, they tell you you’re born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it’s a disaster to be a girl."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. We’re more scientific now, we know it’s just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it’s still legal."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the v…"-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
16. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- feminism
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
17. Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
By: Leïla Slimani
3.92
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Comme un écrivain qui pense que « toute audace véritable vient de l’intérieur », Leïla Slimani n’ai… read more
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- art
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Escribir no es expresar una cultura sino desprenderse de ella, si esta se encierra en prohibiciones e imperativos."-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"En mi opinión, ni el discurso que glorifica el mestizaje ni el que se siente amenazado por este han entendido la complejidad de una identidad doble. Es simultáneamente incomodidad y libertad, disgust…"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"La dominación colonial —he acabado entendiéndolo— moldea no solo las mentes sino también los cuerpos, los constriñe y encierra. El dominado no se atreve a moverse, a rebelarse, a cruzar sus límites… …"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"Jamás pude descansar en el confort frío de la indiferencia. El transeúnte que pasa por la calle, la panadera que habla en un tono muy alto, el viejecito que camina lentamente, la niñera que sueña sen…"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
18. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- essays
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
19. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- feminism
- womens
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
20. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
21. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: T here’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Sometimes things happen and I don’t know what to do with my face."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"Question: What’s the difference between a whore and a bitch? Answer: A whore will sleep with anybody. A bitch will sleep with anybody… but you."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. "Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?"-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
22. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- nonfiction
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
23. In the Country of Others
By: Leïla Slimani
3.76
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more
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"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
24. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.23
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more
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"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
25. Daughters of Sparta
By: Claire Heywood
3.88
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships--but now … read more
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- feminism
"He helped her to rule without ever trying to rule her."-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta
"Sometimes we must be led by duty, and sometimes by what is right....The trick is to know when these things are the same, and when they are not. [Tyndoreos]"-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta
"None of this was Agatha's fault, Helen knew that in her honest heart. And yet she resented her. For doing what she could not, for being what she was not, for giving her daughter what she had not. Whe…"-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta
26. Hilma af Klint: A Biography
By: Julia Voss
4.29
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter … read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
27. 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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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
28. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
29. Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
By: Jerry Saltz
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readabl… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
30. Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
By: Linda Nochlin
4.40
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Linda Nochlin is one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time… read more
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- history
- the united states of america
- literature
- feminism
- academic
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
31. The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago
By: Judy Chicago
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media … read more
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- art
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
