11 must-read memoir books like Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun

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Modern Whore

By: Andrea Werhun

4.23

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Born out of an irrepressible urge to share my own complex experience of sex work, Modern Whore is a…

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1. The Beaver Show

By: Jacqueline Frances

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

"I dance. Naked. For large (and occasionally insultingly modest) sums of money." It all started fiv… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Frances's The Beaver Show book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

By: Neil Strauss , Jenna Jameson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jenna Jameson's unforgettable memoir is many things at once: a shocking sexual history; an insider … read more

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3. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerabl… read more

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4. Whip Smart: A Memoir

By: Melissa Febos

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more

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5. Saga: Book Two

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

At long last, it's finally time for the second hardcover collection of Saga, the New York Timesbest… read more

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6. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • sex work
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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7. Whore of New York: A Confession

By: Liara Roux

3.16

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious detai… read more

Similar categories in Liara Roux's Whore of New York: A Confession book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • sex work
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
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8. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's The Fake book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • canada
  • audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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9. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

Similar categories in Elamin Abdelmahmoud's Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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10. We Want What We Want

By: Alix Ohlin

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A collection of glittering, surprising, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of th… read more

Similar categories in Alix Ohlin's We Want What We Want book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • canada
  • audiobook
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11. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

By: Molly Smith

4.61

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more

Similar categories in Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sex work
  • sexuality
"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

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12. I Fear My Pain Interests You

By: Stephanie LaCava

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more

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13. Come

By: Rita Therese

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Rita Therese is a 25-year-old sex worker, artist and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She ente… read more

Similar categories in Rita Therese's Come book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • sex work
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
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14. Camgirl

By: Isa Mazzei

3.80

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilari… read more

Similar categories in Isa Mazzei's Camgirl book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory

15. Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

By: Tracy Clark-Flory

3.84

Format: None pages, None

A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped h… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
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16. Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-)

By: Fancy Feast

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Naked , a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with inc… read more

Similar categories in Fancy Feast's Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-) book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life by Lizzie Borden

17. Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life

By: Lizzie Borden

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, mot… read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Borden's Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun

18. Modern Whore

By: Andrea Werhun

4.23

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Born out of an irrepressible urge to share my own complex experience of sex work, Modern Whore is a… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • canada
  • feminism
  • sex work
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir by Cid V. Brunet

19. This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

By: Cid V. Brunet

3.99

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

The electric and intimate memoir of a person who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real … read more

Similar categories in Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • memoir
  • canada
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry by Lola Davina

20. Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry

By: Lola Davina

4.49

Format: 220 pages, ebook

A self-help book for sex workers. Sex work is “easy money?” Hardly. The adult industry is riddled … read more

Similar categories in Lola Davina's Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sex work
  • sexuality
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21. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach book and Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore

  • canada
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

9 must-read audiobook books like Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun

Transform Your Habits

Whore of New York: A Confession

Liara Roux

3.16

Transform Your Habits

The Fake

Zoe Whittall

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Transform Your Habits

We Want What We Want

Alix Ohlin

3.96

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28 Top audiobook books like Come by Rita Therese

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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