8 must-read essays books like The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig

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The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

By: Jessie Kindig

4.26

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global historyThroughout writ…

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1. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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2. South and West: From a Notebook

By: Joan Didion

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I've never been any place I wanted to go."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

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3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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4. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
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7. The Piano Teacher

By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more

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8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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9. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction

10. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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11. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more

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12. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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13. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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  • feminism
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

14. The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

By: Tariq Ali , Andrew Hsiao , Audrea Lim

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and ra… read more

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15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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16. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

17. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By: Andreas Malm

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more

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18. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

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"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

19. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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20. A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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21. Love in the Big City

By: Sang Young Park

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more

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"I like the universe that is you"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

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22. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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  • feminism
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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23. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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24. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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25. The Best of Me

By: David Sedaris

4.21

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I can't bear to hear other people's dreams unless I myself am in them."

-David Sedaris, The Best of Me

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26. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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27. Film for Her

By: Orion Carloto

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

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28. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. Capital and Ideology

By: Thomas Piketty

4.28

Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

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30. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories

By: Kavita Puri

4.46

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

By: Jessie Kindig

4.26

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global historyThroughout writ… read more

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9 must-read history books like The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig

Transform Your Habits

The White Album

Joan Didion

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

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14 Top fiction books like A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin

Transform Your Habits

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Wound

Oksana Vasyakina

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kaarna

Tommi Kinnunen

4.24

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