20 Top nonfiction books like bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) by bell hooks

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bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: bell hooks

4.30

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

"With a thoughtful introduction by Mikki Kendall, it will remind you why she was loved, honored, ch…

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • the united states of america
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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2. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

By: James Baldwin , Quincy Troupe

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be wh… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays

4. Quicksand

By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more

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5. Another Roadside Attraction

By: Tom Robbins

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

Amanda, bella e giovane chiaroveggente dagli insoliti costumi morali (e materiali) e circondata da … read more

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6. Something Bright, Then Holes

By: Maggie Nelson

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deep… read more

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7. We Are Displaced

By: Malala Yousafzai

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother. Zaynab… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"I think it’s time that people update themselves, educate themselves, and inform themselves."

-Malala Yousafzai, We Are Displaced

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8. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
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9. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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10. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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12. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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13. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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14. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

By: Margaret Atwood

4.07

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

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15. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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16. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"

-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"

-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

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17. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

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18. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.62

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"

-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

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19. Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By: Melville House

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • essays
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21. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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22. All This & More

By: Peng Shepherd

3.47

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more

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23. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
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24. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • feminism
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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25. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"In many college English courses the words “myth"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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26. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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27. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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28. Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

By: Julia Watts Belser

4.47

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disabil… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. 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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"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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30. bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: bell hooks

4.30

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

"With a thoughtful introduction by Mikki Kendall, it will remind you why she was loved, honored, ch… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) book and bell hooks's bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

  • biography
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
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31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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James Baldwin , Quincy Troupe

3.00

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We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

4.55

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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