7 best-selling essays books like A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor

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A Sentimental Education

By: Hannah McGregor

4.38

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected…

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1. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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2. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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4. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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5. 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 Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

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

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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6. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

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7. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
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9. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

By: Amy Schneider

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more

Similar categories in Amy Schneider's In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

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10. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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11. Wrapped Up in You

By: Talia Hibbert

3.58

Format: 127 pages, ebook

William Reid is nothing special, except for his billion-dollar acting career and his, you know, fac… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Wrapped Up in You book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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13. Infamous

By: Lex Croucher

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everythi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Oh,"

-Lex Croucher, Infamous

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14. Truly, Madly, Deeply

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships ag… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's The Book of Love book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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17. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's Late Bloomer book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

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18. How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone: A Graphic Novel

By: Alex Norris

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A guide for to dating, relationships, and identity—from a wildly popular web comic artist. Isn’t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Norris's How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone: A Graphic Novel book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre

By: Sam Maggs

4.23

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Jester Lavorre had an unconventional upbringing, even for one born in cosmopolitan Nicodranas. Daug… read more

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21. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

By: Mallory O'Meara

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more

Similar categories in Mallory O'Meara's Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."

-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."

-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."

-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"

-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

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22. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Breaks: An Essay by Julietta Singh

23. The Breaks: An Essay

By: Julietta Singh

4.36

Format: 168 pages, None

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a let… read more

Similar categories in Julietta Singh's The Breaks: An Essay book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing"

-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

"How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen."

-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

24. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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25. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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26. The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3)

By: Olivia Waite

3.71

Format: 384 pages, ebook

It’s not a crime to steal a heart... Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. Aft… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Waite's The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan

27. Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

By: Vanessa Zoltan

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about sufferin… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Zoltan's Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"A willingness to survive is about believing in the possibility of a better future. Survival is about hope, and hope in moments of despair is virtuous."

-Vanessa Zoltan, Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

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28. A Sentimental Education

By: Hannah McGregor

4.38

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected… read more

Similar categories in Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • education
  • queer
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29. Better by Far

By: Hazel Hayes

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Hayes's Better by Far book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

30. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning by Samhita Mukhopadhyay

31. The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning

By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the … read more

Similar categories in Samhita Mukhopadhyay's The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning book and Hannah McGregor's A Sentimental Education

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 best-selling adult books like A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Fake

Zoe Whittall

3.44

Transform Your Habits

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

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8 best-selling history books like Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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