Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power
By: Jennifer Worley
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical…
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1. Meet Samantha: An American Girl (American Girls: Samantha, #1)
By: Susan S. Adler , Renée Graef , Nancy Niles
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-ne… read more
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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
3. Advanced Style: Older and Wiser
By: Simon Doonan , Ari Seth Cohen
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
This follow-up to the bestselling Advanced Stylefeatures more senior street style and inspiration f… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir
By: None , None
4.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress Carre Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender… read more
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5. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
By: Carl Zimmer
4.16
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overvi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries bec…"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
"It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature …"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
6. Poison Ivy, Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle
By: G. Willow Wilson
4.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a sc… read more
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7. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- nonfiction
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"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
9. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
10. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
11. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- history
- biography
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Z Word
By: Lindsay King-Miller
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more
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16. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- history
- biography
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"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
17. Camgirl
By: Isa Mazzei
3.80
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilari… read more
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- audiobook
18. Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
By: Susan Fowler
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in … read more
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- audiobook
19. Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power
By: Jennifer Worley
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- labor
- audiobook
20. Yes, Mistress: Why Men Crave Female Domination
By: Alicia Zadig
4.21
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
“If Alicia Zadig is half as good a Domme as she is an author, then she surely leaves her submissive… read more
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21. Truly Madly Magically (Witchlore, #3)
By: Hazel Beck
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A witch cursed to tell the truth, and the man who won’t let her lie to herself anymore… Cursed … read more
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