5 must-read essays books like The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics) by Andrea Warner

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The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics)

By: Andrea Warner

3.68

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of fem…

If you liked the essays plot in The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics) by Andrea Warner , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Veronica

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.59

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more

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2. The Time of My Life

By: Patrick Swayze , Lisa Niemi Swayze

4.29

Format: None pages,

Die Reaktionen auf den Tod Patrick Swayzes waren weltweit von uberwaltigender Anteilnahme. Kollegen… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Letter from the Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

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4. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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5. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

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6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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7. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • feminism
  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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10. The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)

By: Tomihiko Morimi

3.55

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four pa… read more

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"Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil."

-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)

"He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy."

-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)

"When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you …"

-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)

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11. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

By: Steve Martin

3.83

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. A Woman of Pleasure

By: Kiyoko Murata

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more

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  • feminism
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13. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

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  • canada
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14. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • canada
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15. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
Cover of My Mama, Cass: A Memoir by Owen Elliot-Kugell

16. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Tatami Time Machine Blues (Tatami Series, #2) by Tomihiko Morimi

17. The Tatami Time Machine Blues (Tatami Series, #2)

By: Tomihiko Morimi

3.94

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we … read more

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18. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
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19. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

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20. Big Mall

By: Kate Black

3.84

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A phenomenology of the If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poison… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays
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21. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Cover of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

22. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics)

By: Andrea Warner

3.68

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of fem… read more

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  • pop culture
  • canada
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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24. What’s Not Mine

By: Nora Decter

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s… read more

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  • canada
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25. My Body Is Distant: A Memoir

By: Paige Maylott

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our … read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. A Sentimental Education

By: Hannah McGregor

4.38

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays
Cover of Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari

27. Songs for the Brokenhearted

By: Ayelet Tsabari

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better li… read more

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  • canada
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28. Enemies to Lovers

By: Laura Jane Williams

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Flo Greenberg: highly strung. Over-achiever. And desperate for a relaxing Greek holiday with her fa… read more

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29. Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism

By: Heather Parry

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diving into the highly-charged (pun intended) topic of sex robots, Electric Dreams positions them n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

30. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
Cover of Peacocks of Instagram: Stories by Deepa Rajagopalan

31. Peacocks of Instagram: Stories

By: Deepa Rajagopalan

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Peacocks of Instagram is a fresh and intimate debut collection of short stories suffused with the d… read more

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4.27

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3.78

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