This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story
By: Jackie Shannon Hollis
4.11
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
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1. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
By: Meghan Daum , Kate Christensen , Tim Kreider , Paul Lisicky , M.G. Lord , Rosemary Mahoney , Sigrid Nunez , Jeanne Safer , Lionel Shriver , Geoff Dyer , Danielle Henderson , None , Anna Holmes , Elliott Holt , Pam Houston , Michelle Huneven , Laura Kipnis
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Literary Luminaries On The Controversial Subject Of Being Childless By Choice, Collected In… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether."-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"A number of children kept coming over to the tennis courts, rattling on the gate, and trying to get in. The watching middle-class mums did nothing to restrain them. Eventually my friend yelled, “Go A…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"As a woman who chooses to be childless, I generally have just one problem: other adults. Living in a culture where women are assumed to prioritize motherhood above all else and where a woman's person…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contem…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
2. All the Beautiful Lies
By: Peter Swanson
3.62
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
From the acclaimed author of Her Every Fear and The Kind Worth Killing comes a diabolically clever … read more
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3. The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You
By: Karla McLaren
3.81
Format: 259 pages, Audio CD
Most of us relate to our emotions by either running from the difficult ones or clinging to the plea… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
4. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
By: Amy Morin
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Expanding on her viral post that has become an international phenomenon, a psychotherapist offers s… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
5. Childfree and Loving It!
By: Nicki Defago
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Recording the opinions of childless women from all over the world and letting this growing band ans… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
6. Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption
By: None
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the bestselling tradition of Smashedand Glass Castle, this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the pow… read more
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7. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
By: Emily Nagoski
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
8. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
9. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
By: Adam Phillips
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are. A… read more
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10. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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11. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
12. The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3 (The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, 3)
By: Cassandra Clare
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
The third installment of the graphic novel adaptation of Cassandra Clare's bestselling The Mortal I… read more
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13. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
14. Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness
By: Vex King
3.99
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautifully designed book full of inspiring quotes and tried-and-tested wisdom on using positivit… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing that you deserve better and working towards it."-Vex King, Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness
15. Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
By: Haemin Sunim
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with al… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"You were rushing to lick honey off a razor’s edge."-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Ware vrijheid is vrij zijn van de angst om niet perfect te zijn"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Our True self can never be lost, even for a single moment. Just like the present can never be lost- it is always here and now, wether or not we pay attention to it"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Because I have experienced pain, I am able to embrace the pain of others. Because I have made mistakes, I am able to forgive others their mistakes. May my suffering become the seed of compassion"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
16. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- self help
"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
17. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
By: Emily Nagoski
3.95
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"No one is “complete"-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
"Dread is anxiety on steroids."-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
"So how much rest is “adequate"-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
"Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering."-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
18. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
By: Olivia Hawker
4.19
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of surviv… read more
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"Beyond the borders of the land that was his lay the wilderness that was its own. The upthrust stone, the shoulders of the Bighorns, reddish gray where they stood near to the homestead and blue where …"-Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
19. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
20. The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4
By: Cassandra Clare
4.34
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASSANDRA CLARE'S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL … read more
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21. Homebodies
By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more
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22. A Very Typical Family
By: Sierra Godfrey
3.47
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and s… read more
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23. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
By: Valarie Kaur
4.54
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valari… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Wonder is the wellspring for love"-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"You are a part of me I do not yet know"-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life."-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
"Grieving together, we ease each other’s suffering and come to know each other."-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
24. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
By: Kate Manne
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
25. Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
By: Ada Calhoun
3.69
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Single women may still be marginalized or stigmatized even--some say especially--when they are happy about being single."-Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
"Somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything."-Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
"We are some of the best-educated human beings in history and among the first adults in recent American history in worse financial shape than our parents."-Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
"It feels like every day there's another report of a company's bold new plan to cut costs and increase annual savings by "streamlining"--read: having fewer people do more work."-Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
26. Trace of Doubt
By: Samantha Weinberg
3.39
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In the summer of 1985, a brilliant young British DNA scientist Helena Greenwood is found murdered i… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence
By: Amy Blackstone
3.94
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and na… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Rather than pondering whether childfree women qualify as 'real women', perhaps the better question is why we are so hell-bent on forcing narrow and constricting rules on what makes a woman. Some wome…"-Amy Blackstone, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence
28. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
By: Timothy Brennan
3.96
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe first comprehensive biography of the most influenti… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
29. The Happy Vagina: The ultimate guide to women’s health; de-stigmatising the vagina from feminism and sex to contraception and beyond
By: Mika Simmons
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The Happy Vagina shines a light on both the unique and sometimes awkward facts about everything gyn… read more
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- nonfiction
30. This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story
By: Jackie Shannon Hollis
4.11
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Knowing where your scars come from doesn't make them go away. Growing up on a ranch, feeding bottl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- self help
31. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
By: Beth L. Sundstrom
3.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or ha… read more
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