15 must-read nonfiction books like x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

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x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

By: Eugenia Cheng

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant mathematician's new path out of gender inequalityWhy are men in charge? After years in …

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Cover of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence  Williams

1. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

By: Florence Williams

3.84

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Int… read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • science
Cover of Culottées #2 (Culottées, #2) by Pénélope Bagieu

2. Culottées #2 (Culottées, #2)

By: Pénélope Bagieu

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Des femmes qui ne font que ce qu'elles veulent : deuxieme volet ! Sonita, rappeuse afghane et exile… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

3. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more

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  • mathematics
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Temps glaciaires (Commissaire Adamsberg #10) by Fred Vargas

4. Temps glaciaires (Commissaire Adamsberg #10)

By: Fred Vargas

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

"Adamsberg attrapa son telephone, ecarta une pile de dossiers et posa les pieds sur sa table, s'inc… read more

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5. Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps

By: Camille Jourdy

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Apres le succes de la trilogie Rosalie Blum, Camille Jourdy revient avec un nouveau roman graphique… read more

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Cover of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin

6. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

By: Jessa Crispin

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as su… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens

7. Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Some remember his impressive career stats ... others recall his on-field arrogance. Some say he fix… read more

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8. The Rehearsal

By: Eleanor Catton

3.91

Format: None pages,

All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, partic… read more

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9. Math Without Numbers

By: Milo Beckman

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

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Cover of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah  Jaffe

11. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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12. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

Cover of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There by Tali Sharot

13. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

By: Tali Sharot

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

14. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

Similar categories in Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI book and Eugenia Cheng's x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • audiobook
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15. Arid Dreams

By: Duanwad Pimwana

3.32

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for mor… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
Cover of After Work: The Politics of Free Time by Helen Hester

16. After Work: The Politics of Free Time

By: Helen Hester

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

By: Eugenia Cheng

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant mathematician's new path out of gender inequalityWhy are men in charge? After years in … read more

Similar categories in Eugenia Cheng's x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender book and Eugenia Cheng's x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

  • science
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans

18. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

By: Alex Edmans

4.08

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefield… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor by Brian  Keating

19. Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor

By: Brian Keating

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BIC… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowińska

20. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

By: Paulina Rowińska

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Immune Mind: The Hidden Dialogue Between Your Brain and Immune System by Monty Lyman

21. The Immune Mind: The Hidden Dialogue Between Your Brain and Immune System

By: Monty Lyman

4.32

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr. Monty Lyman reveals the extraor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

5 must-read womens books like x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

Transform Your Habits

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Florence Williams

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

Jessa Crispin

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

Carla Lonzi

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Arid Dreams

Duanwad Pimwana

3.32

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

4.54

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