10 must-read nonfiction books like Autoethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) by Tony E. Adams

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Autoethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research)

By: Tony E. Adams

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences…

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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. The Cancer Journals

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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5. Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)

By: Erin Hunter

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by … read more

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"You put quite a fight for a tame kitty"

-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)

"follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)"

-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)

"You cannot live with a paw in each world."

-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)

"You can not live with a paw in each world."

-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)

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6. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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7. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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9. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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10. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes

By: Robert M. Emerson , Rachel I. Fretz , Linda L. Shaw

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnog… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthropology

11. Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more

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12. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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13. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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14. The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

3.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more

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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

15. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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16. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By: Steven Pressfield , Robert McKee

4.08

Format: None pages,

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17. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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18. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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19. Elsewhere

By: Gabrielle Zevin

3.60

Format: None pages,

Welcome to Elsewhere.It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peace… read more

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20. Autoethnography as Method

By: Heewon Chang

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethn… read more

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21. Mr Palomar

By: Italo Calvino

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more

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22. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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23. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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24. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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25. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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26. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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27. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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28. The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

By: The Care Collective

3.80

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al …"

-The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

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29. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

By: Michaela Coel

4.15

Format: 128 pages, ebook

A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Autoethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research)

By: Tony E. Adams

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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31. Interpretive Autoethnography (Qualitative Research Methods)

By: Norman K. Denzin

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“It is time to chart a new course”, writes Norman K. Denzin in Interpretive Autoethnography, Second… read more

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  • anthropology

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Transform Your Habits

The Song of Roland

Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers

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4.00

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

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