5 best-selling social justice books like Choice Words: Writers on Abortion by Annie Finch

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Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

By: Annie Finch

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and literary essays about abortion, Choice Word…

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1. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

By: Kristin Newman

3.81

Format: 225 pages,

A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristi… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Newman's What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • nonfiction
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2. Good Bones

By: Maggie Smith

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Good Bones book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction

3. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich , Deirdre English

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female pr… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Ehrenreich's Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

4. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

Similar categories in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

5. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

By: Elizabeth L. Cline

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She'd grown accustomed to shopping… read more

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6. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more

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7. Vladivostok Circus

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Shua Dusapin's Vladivostok Circus book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

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8. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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9. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • nonfiction
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10. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

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11. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

Similar categories in Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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12. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
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13. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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14. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

By: Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more

Similar categories in Diana Greene Foster's The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
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15. NSFW

By: Isabel Kaplan

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Kaplan's NSFW book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • feminism
  • womens
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16. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

Similar categories in Camonghne Felix's Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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17. Honeybee

By: Trista Mateer

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Honeybee book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I still wake up with things to tell you."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

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18. Medusa's Sisters

By: Lauren J.A. Bear

4.18

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more

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"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

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19. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • nonfiction
"Remembering is the death of mercy."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

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20. The Town of Babylon

By: Alejandro Varela

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more

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21. Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

By: Annie Finch

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and literary essays about abortion, Choice Word… read more

Similar categories in Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion book and Annie Finch's Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • politics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
  • social issues

11 Best nonfiction books like Choice Words: Writers on Abortion by Annie Finch

Transform Your Habits

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

Kristin Newman

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Good Bones

Maggie Smith

4.19

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

4.46

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21 must-read fiction books like NSFW by Isabel Kaplan

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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