8 must-read nonfiction books like The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World by Sa’diyya Shaikh

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The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World

By: Sa’diyya Shaikh

4.73

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women’s khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, …

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1. Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

By: A. Helwa

4.51

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Are you longing to experience a more intimate and loving relationship with the Divine? Secrets … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • islam
"The word “Allah"

-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

"In Arabic, the word fitna, meaning “hardship,"

-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

"To every cry of, 'Oh God'. He answers a hundred times, 'I am here'."

-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

"We are all born with spiritual wings, Islam simply reminds us how to fly."

-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

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2. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

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"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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3. Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.86

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more

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"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

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4. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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6. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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7. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Un féminisme décolonial

By: Françoise Vergès

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Clear Quran

By: Dr.Mustafa Khattab

4.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For a translation to do justice to the Quran and capture its elegance and vigor, it has to be accur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • islam
Cover of The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World by Sa’diyya Shaikh

10. The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World

By: Sa’diyya Shaikh

4.73

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women’s khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • islam

7 must-read philosophy books like Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam by A. Helwa

Muhammad

Karen Armstrong

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Letters to a Young Muslim

Omar Saif Ghobash

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

Nouman Ali Khan

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی

4.12

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