9 must-read feminism books like Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Space Crone

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.29

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

For the first time, ​Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on …

If you liked the feminism plot in Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • literature
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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2. The Female Man

By: Joanna Russ

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Russ's The Female Man book and Ursula K. Le Guin's Space Crone

  • feminism
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3. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • womens
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

4. Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world b… read more

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5. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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6. Modern Nature

By: Derek Jarman

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Book by Jarman, Derek read more

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  • nonfiction
"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."

-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature

7. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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8. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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9. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • politics
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11. Everybody: A Book About Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

 The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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12. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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13. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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14. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
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15. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

By: Audre Lorde

4.63

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."

-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surpl…"

-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it.…"

-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feelin…"

-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Cover of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way by Sara Ahmed

17. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

By: Sara Ahmed

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"

-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

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18. The Last Phi Hunter

By: Salinee Goldenberg

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Ambitious Phi Hunter and perpetual lone wolf, Ex, finds his road to glory interrupted when a heavil… read more

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19. Space Crone

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.29

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

For the first time, ​Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on … read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's Space Crone book and Ursula K. Le Guin's Space Crone

  • literature
  • feminism
  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • womens
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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • womens
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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Deborah Levy

4.09

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Jennifer Higgie

4.08

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Lauren Elkin

4.16

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Sara Ahmed

4.07

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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