13 best-selling nonfiction books like What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents by Nina Power

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What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents

By: Nina Power

3.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed philosopher and author of One-Dimensional Woman, a bold, playful and open-minded…

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Cover of The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn, Kitty Mrosovsky

1. The Temptation of St. Antony

By: Gustave Flaubert , Lafcadio Hearn , Kitty Mrosovsky

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud & was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptatio… read more

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  • philosophy
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2. What Belongs to You

By: Garth Greenwell

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more

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3. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By: Martin Bunton

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more

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4. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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5. Of Grammatology

By: Jacques Derrida , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and s… read more

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6. Blood Sisters

By: Barbara Keating , Stephanie Keating

4.06

Format: 244 pages,

Kenya 1957. During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands three girls from vastly different b… read more

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7. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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8. Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more

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  • cultural
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"

-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress

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9. Everybody: A Book About Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

 The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dark Psychology Secrets: The Essential Guide to Persuasion, Emotional Manipulation, Deception, Mind Control, Human Behavior, NLP and Hypnosis, How To Stop Being Manipulated And Defend Your Mind by Daniel James Hollins

10. Dark Psychology Secrets: The Essential Guide to Persuasion, Emotional Manipulation, Deception, Mind Control, Human Behavior, NLP and Hypnosis, How To Stop Being Manipulated And Defend Your Mind

By: Daniel James Hollins

3.08

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

Whether you have been experiencing manipulation for years, or if this is something entirely new, ps… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

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12. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

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13. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By: Louise Perry

4.28

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

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14. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

By: Monisha Rajesh

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks

15. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

By: Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

Format: 20 pages, ebook

“Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! …[And, let’s] construct a society … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, ne…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

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16. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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17. Getting over You

By: Leslie B.

4.10

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

getting over you was the strangest feeling i ever had to experience it was like my mind knew th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess  Hill

18. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

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19. Raven Smith's Men

By: Raven Smith

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Following on from his critical smash debut Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits, Raven is back with a pin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents

By: Nina Power

3.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed philosopher and author of One-Dimensional Woman, a bold, playful and open-minded… read more

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  • cultural
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
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21. In Love & Friendship

By: Hilary Norman

3.80

Format: 656 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two men--Andreas Alessandro, a racingcar champion and Daniel Silberstein, an acclaimed gourmet crit… read more

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Mary Harrington

4.09

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Olivia Laing

4.26

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Umberto Eco

4.33

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4.28

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Douglas Murray

4.28

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Nellie Bowles

4.05

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4.09

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Coleman Hughes

4.46

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