17 Best nonfiction books like Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker by Donna Freitas

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Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

By: Donna Freitas

3.85

Format: 28 pages, ebook

For more than two years, Donna Freitas’s graduate school mentor, a priest and celebrated scholar, s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker by Donna Freitas , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

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2. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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3. Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

By: Roxane Gay

3.99

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. Perfect (The Genesis Trilogy, #1)

By: L.A. Kessler

3.34

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Perfection.Juliet Huff’s life depends on it.She’s never been outside, had friends over, or attend… read more

Similar categories in L.A. Kessler's Perfect (The Genesis Trilogy, #1) book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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5. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

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  • audiobook
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

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6. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. The Clown Brigade

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 100 pages, Audiobook

It’s a brand-new day for Kyle: He’s flying across the country to meet a woman he connected with onl… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Clown Brigade book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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8. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

Similar categories in Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Chavirer

By: Lola Lafon

4.15

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Entre corps érotisé et corps souffrant, magie de la scène et coulisses des douleurs, «Chavirer »rac… read more

Similar categories in Lola Lafon's Chavirer book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
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10. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

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11. The Summer of Fall

By: Laura Lippman

3.21

Format: 62 pages, None

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lady in the Lake, Dream Girl, and many other noir fav… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's The Summer of Fall book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Good Girls Don't

By: Mara Wilson

3.44

Format: 82 pages, ebook

Writer-actor Mara Wilson navigates the good-girl-versus- bad-girl tropes from early childhood throu… read more

Similar categories in Mara Wilson's Good Girls Don't book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Leduc's Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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14. Inconvenient Daughter

By: Lauren J. Sharkey

3.42

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption. Rowan… read more

Similar categories in Lauren J. Sharkey's Inconvenient Daughter book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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15. The End of the River

By: Simon Winchester

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Simon Winchester brings alive the dramatic history of America’s most storied, symbolic, and lawless… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's The End of the River book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Quiet You Carry

By: Nikki Barthelmess

4.02

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Victoria Parker knew her dad's behavior toward her was a little unusual, but she convinced herself … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Barthelmess's The Quiet You Carry book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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17. Red Dust (Cuban Science Fiction)

By: Yoss

3.49

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond… read more

Similar categories in Yoss's Red Dust (Cuban Science Fiction) book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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18. The Shame

By: Makenna Goodman

3.60

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down… read more

Similar categories in Makenna Goodman's The Shame book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • audiobook
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19. Leather and Lace

By: Lydia Westing

3.05

Format: 83 pages, None

The Ruby City Roller Girls are a small Midwestern roller derby team previously ranked 250 in the Wo… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Westing's Leather and Lace book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook
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20. Black Imagination

By: Natasha Marin

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Close your eyes—make the white gaze disappear." What is it like to be black and joyful, without su… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Marin's Black Imagination book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Unravelling Alice

By: N.A. Cooper

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of Ripple Effect returns with a taut and terrifying new novel full of suspicion and reve… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. The Only Living Girl on Earth

By: Charles Yu

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom by Shelly Oria

23. I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom

By: Shelly Oria

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Edited by Shelly Oria (Indelible in the Hippocampus) this explosive, intersectional collection of e… read more

Similar categories in Shelly Oria's I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. The Exotic

By: Hampton Sides

3.46

Format: 96 pages, ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice, and On Despera… read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's The Exotic book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
Cover of You're Cute When You're Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism by Celeste Headlee

25. You're Cute When You're Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism

By: Celeste Headlee

3.74

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Editor's Note Stopping sexism… Headlee’s guide isn’t just for women: it’s for anyone who wants … read more

Similar categories in Celeste Headlee's You're Cute When You're Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Out of the Wreckage

By: Kirk Yeager

3.59

Format: None pages, None

In this fascinating essay, Kirk Yeager, the FBI’s current chief explosives scientist, details the g… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Yeager's Out of the Wreckage book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nazi Hunting: A Love Story by Jess McHugh

27. Nazi Hunting: A Love Story

By: Jess McHugh

3.82

Format: None pages, ebook

The inspiring, heart-thumping true story of the couple who brought some of the Holocaust’s most not… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement by Kurt Eichenwald

28. The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement

By: Kurt Eichenwald

3.94

Format: 187 pages, ebook

Set against the backdrop of a global pandemic and growing conspiracies aimed at so-called fake news… read more

Similar categories in Kurt Eichenwald's The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Moms Are Not Alright

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.45

Format: 79 pages, ebook

From the author of the bestselling cultural touchstones Out of Office and Can’t Even, an honest, in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Helen Petersen's The Moms Are Not Alright book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker by Donna Freitas

30. Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

By: Donna Freitas

3.85

Format: 28 pages, ebook

For more than two years, Donna Freitas’s graduate school mentor, a priest and celebrated scholar, s… read more

Similar categories in Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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31. You’re Not the Only One F*cking Up: Breaking the Endless Cycle of Dating Mistakes

By: Lane Moore

3.48

Format: 60 pages, ebook

Dating in a modern world can be, shall we say, challenging. Between deciphering mixed messages abou… read more

Similar categories in Lane Moore's You’re Not the Only One F*cking Up: Breaking the Endless Cycle of Dating Mistakes book and Donna Freitas's Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker

  • audiobook

28 must-read audiobook books like Dear Professor: A Woman's Letter to her Stalker by Donna Freitas

Transform Your Habits

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

Roxane Gay

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Perfect (The Genesis Trilogy, #1)

L.A. Kessler

3.34

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5 Top audiobook books like The End of the River by Simon Winchester

Transform Your Habits

The Good Rat

Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The End of the River

Simon Winchester

4.19

The Myths of Meritocracy : a revisionist history anthology

Malcolm Gladwell

4.42

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Black Imagination

Natasha Marin

4.34

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