Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
By: Elizabeth Renzetti
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social medi…
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1. The Color of Our Sky
By: Amita Trasi
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
A sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends--one struggling to survive the human slave t… read more
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2. The House Girl
By: Tara Conklin
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped hous… read more
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3. The Mother of All Questions
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers commentary on women who refuse… read more
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4. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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5. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
6. 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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"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
7. What We Buried
By: Robert Rotenberg
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Toronto homicide detective is attacked at his doorstep when his investigation into possible links… read more
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8. Sex Object: A Memoir
By: Jessica Valenti
3.66
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more
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- womens
- audiobook
"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
9. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
10. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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11. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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- politics
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12. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)
By: Iona Whishaw
4.39
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more
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13. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
14. 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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- 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
15. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
16. 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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17. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
18. Black Friend: Essays
By: Ziwe
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more
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- memoir
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"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
19. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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20. Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
By: Eleanor Herman
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, re… read more
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- politics
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- womens
- audiobook
"Another method to identify misogyny is to picture a well-known politician as belonging to the opposite sex and see where that takes you. For instance, imagine Donald Trump as a woman. Let's call her …"-Eleanor Herman, Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
21. Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
By: Elizabeth Renzetti
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social medi… read more
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- canada
- feminism
- politics
- gender
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- essays
- womens
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