10 Best nonfiction books like The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

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The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s…

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1. The Garden of Forking Paths

By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Format: None pages, Audiobook

"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more

Similar categories in George Guidall's The Garden of Forking Paths book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • short stories
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2. Africa's Tarnished Name

By: Chinua Achebe

4.40

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more

Similar categories in Chinua Achebe's Africa's Tarnished Name book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • politics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

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3. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • classics
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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4. Lance

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories—"The Aurelian", "Signs and … read more

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Lance book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
  • american
"So it went on, that obsession and that despair and that nightmarish impossibility to swindle destiny, until a certain first of April, of all dates."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart)."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies tha…"

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

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5. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • politics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

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6. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

By: Clarice Lispector

3.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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7. Fame

By: Andy Warhol

3.55

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away' The legendary sixties New … read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics
"I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers."

-Andy Warhol, Fame

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8. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

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9. The Haunted Boy

By: Carson McCullers

3.92

Format: 60 pages, Mass Market Paperback

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
  • american
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10. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

By: Federico García Lorca

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more

Similar categories in Federico García Lorca's The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"

-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

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11. The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: John Berger

4.05

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A drea… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics
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12. The Cracked Looking-Glass

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.04

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Cracked Looking-Glass book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías

13. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

By: Javier Marías

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling,… read more

Similar categories in Javier Marías's Madame du Deffand and the Idiots book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics
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14. The Custard Heart

By: Dorothy Parker

3.68

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heart… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Parker's The Custard Heart book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
  • american
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15. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics
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16. Death the Barber

By: William Carlos Williams

3.39

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Death the Barber book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
  • american
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17. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

By: Hans Fallada

3.51

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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18. The Survivor

By: Primo Levi

3.74

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poet… read more

Similar categories in Primo Levi's The Survivor book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"What is the number of your days? I've counted them: Few and brief, and each one heavy with cares; With anguish about the inevitable night, When nothing saves you from yourself; With fear of the dawn …"

-Primo Levi, The Survivor

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19. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

By: Wendell Berry

3.68

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics
"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

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20. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

Similar categories in Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • american
  • feminist theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • modern classics
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21. Letter to My Mother

By: Georges Simenon

3.74

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Sime… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's Letter to My Mother book and Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name

  • classics
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • modern classics

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The Garden of Forking Paths

George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Africa's Tarnished Name

Chinua Achebe

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

4.55

Transform Your Habits

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Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

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3.31

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3.37

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Yūko Tsushima

3.68

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3.92

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