14 Best nonfiction books like The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion by Angela Bonavoglia

Cover of The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion by Angela Bonavoglia

The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

By: Angela Bonavoglia

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Every day in America, abortion providers and the women who need them are in danger. First published…

"Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?"

-Angela Bonavoglia, The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion by Angela Bonavoglia , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim

1. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor

By: Susan Wicklund , Alan Kesselheim

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

A brave account of the social and political forces that threaten a woman's right to choose, this em… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wicklund's This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2. Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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3. When She Woke

By: Hillary Jordan

1.50

Format: None pages,

When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-d… read more

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  • feminism
Cover of The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion : Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors by Patricia G. Miller

4. The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion : Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors

By: Patricia G. Miller

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Laura: "My whole body was twitching. I remember thinking, At nineteen, this linoleum is the last th… read more

Similar categories in Patricia G. Miller's The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion : Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Born Survivors

By: Wendy Holden

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

6. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

By: Jon Krakauer

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

7. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

8. The Children of Men

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more

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9. Appetites: Why Women Want

By: Caroline Knapp

4.41

Format: None pages,

"Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between ple… read more

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10. Shadows of the Workhouse

By: Jennifer Worth

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of E… read more

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11. The Woman's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486

By: None , None

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

The New Our Bodies, Ourselves calls menstrual extraction (ME) "a powerful example of medical resear… read more

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12. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

By: Jennifer Worth

3.78

Format: 472 pages,

An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one ex… read more

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13. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy

14. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • health
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Cover of Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

15. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

By: Ronan Farrow

4.40

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Cover of Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

16. Warlight

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.60

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's Warlight book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

"A memoir is the lost inheritance."

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"we order our lives with barely held stories"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

Cover of You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah

17. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

By: Meera Shah

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling”  —Cecile Richards, au… read more

Similar categories in Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult by Faith Jones

18. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

By: Faith Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more

Similar categories in Faith Jones's Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • nonfiction
Cover of Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma by Michelle Oberman

19. Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma

By: Michelle Oberman

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

With stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to unde… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion by Angela Bonavoglia

20. The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

By: Angela Bonavoglia

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Every day in America, abortion providers and the women who need them are in danger. First published… read more

Similar categories in Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion book and Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

  • history
  • health
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should th…"

-Angela Bonavoglia, The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion

Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

21. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

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  • nonfiction

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