Anything But a Wasted Life
By: Sita Kaylin
4.16
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Working as a stripper is anything but easy. You're often treated like a living blow-up doll and a t…
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1. The Silent Wife
By: Kerry Fisher
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Would you risk everything for the man you loved? Even if you knew he'd done something terrible? … read more
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2. 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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Sweetbitter
By: Stephanie Danler
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more
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5. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
By: Jon Krakauer
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov… read more
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- nonfiction
6. 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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7. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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8. The Price: My Rise and Fall As Natalia, New York's #1 Escort
By: Natalie McLennan
3.70
Format: None pages,
In this sexy, darkly funny, and suprisingly poignant memoir, famed New York call girl Natalie "Nata… read more
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9. Plain Truth
By: Jodi Picoult
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County - known for its picture-po… read more
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"A trial, it often came down to who had the best story."-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
"I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself."-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
"I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose."-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
10. Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
By: Rachel Lloyd
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving story by a survivor of the commercial sex industry who has devoted her career to ac… read more
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11. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
12. 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
By: Jay Shetty
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
14. My Body
By: Emily Ratajkowski
4.01
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
15. The Pisces
By: Melissa Broder
3.30
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more
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"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
16. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
17. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
18. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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- memoir
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
19. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- biography
- memoir
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
20. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
21. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
22. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
By: Mary McMyne
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more
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23. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
24. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
25. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
26. Master of Salt & Bones
By: Keri Lake
3.95
Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition
When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mot… read more
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"Dark humor, for which she was bold enough to laugh when others might keep quiet."-Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones
"Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love. It doesn't matter what the wold thinks of us. Because we're the composers, the conductors of our own fate, and we write t…"-Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones
"When you cut yourself with a blade, there's an open wound, and blood and pain, but the pain comes to an end and the wound seals to a scar. So you cut yourself again and again, because you forget how …"-Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones
"It was my mother who first told me that there was no such thing as fairy tales with happy endings. That's because she spent her whole life waiting for the white knight to come and rescue her from the…"-Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones
27. The Girl I Never Knew
By: LaDonna Humphrey
3.87
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s killer has been hidden among the dense trees an… read more
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- nonfiction
28. A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers
By: Kay Kassirer
4.10
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Sex work was once thought to be anathema to women’s liberation. Now, to some, we represent the tena… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Portrait of a Mirror
By: A. Natasha Joukovsky
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well… read more
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30. We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
By: Natalie West
4.50
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's neve… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Anything But a Wasted Life
By: Sita Kaylin
4.16
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Working as a stripper is anything but easy. You're often treated like a living blow-up doll and a t… read more
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