BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
By: Ruth Whippman
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart…
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1. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- feminism
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
2. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
3. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
4. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
7. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
8. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
9. How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
By: Sonora Jha
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"This book is a true love letter, not only to Jha's own son but also to all of our sons and to the … read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"Teaching a boy to expect to make mistakes and to expect to be held accountable when he makes mistakes is the key. Teaching a boy to be able to laugh at himself... wouldn't that be such a gift? Teachi…"-Sonora Jha, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
"Feminism will help my son be in a rational fellowship. To this reasonable mother, that means that he will be given permission to be wrong sometimes, to fail, to fall, to cry, to be protected rather t…"-Sonora Jha, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
10. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- audiobook
11. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
By: Ellen Atlanta
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flip… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- self help
"We invited each other into our spaces when parents would allow – girls only in these altars of beauty. We were christened into girlhood, not by holy water or the consumption of Christ’s body and bloo…"-Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
12. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
By: Ian Karmel
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from sister Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"You're a raw nerve in that era of your existence. Life hurts, and that isn't unique to fat people or to any one group, really. Pretty much everyone goes through some version of young-adult malaise. T…"-Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
13. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
By: Annalee Newitz
3.99
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
15. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
By: Ruth Whippman
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- memoir
- unfinished
- feminism
- gender
- psychology
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
16. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
By: Sami Sage
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
17. A Bit Much
By: Lyndsay Rush
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyfu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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18. Plays Well with Others
By: Sophie Brickman
3.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more
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- parenting
- audiobook
19. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
By: Rachel Clarke
4.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
20. The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: Talking to Your Kids About Sex and Other Sensitive Topics
By: Rachel Coler Mulholland
4.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Known as Shug to her nearly 1 million TikTok followers, Rachel Coler Mulholland has become a favori… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
21. Big Fan
By: Alexandra Romanoff
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more
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