Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
By: Alice Bolin
3.03
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Over Tumbled Graves (Caroline Mabry, #1)
By: Jess Walter
3.73
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and T… read more
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- crime
2. Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
By: Mick Wall
4.01
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Decades before reality television was invented, Ozzy Osbourne was subversive and dark. Ozzy was the… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- crime
4. The Ghost Notebooks
By: Ben Dolnick
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more
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5. The Red Parts
By: Maggie Nelson
4.31
Format: 66 pages,
One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more
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6. The Answers
By: Catherine Lacey
3.59
Format: 32 pages,
An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more
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7. Pretty Ugly
By: David Sedaris
3.55
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—st… read more
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8. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
9. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
10. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
11. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- pop culture
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
12. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
By: Sarah Ditum
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more
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- pop culture
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
13. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
By: Seb Falk
3.68
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
By: Sarah Weinman
3.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- essays
- crime
- audiobook
15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
By: Rachel Monroe
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more
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- true crime
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- crime
- audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
16. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
By: Piper Weiss
3.27
Format: 368 pages, ebook
A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
By: Allison Yarrow
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The close of the 20th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of t… read more
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- pop culture
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
18. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
By: Wayétu Moore
4.24
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
19. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
By: Alice Bolin
3.03
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of poignant, perceptive essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an e… read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- pop culture
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- crime
- audiobook
20. The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World
By: Andy Sharp
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
EXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF THE OCCULT – EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESSThis ground-breakin… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
By: Vicki Valosik
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a groundbreaking history of how women found synchr… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- audiobook
