Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
By: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
3.63
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit N…
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1. Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness
By: Brigid Delaney
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Cold-press juices, hot yoga, quitting sugar, Paleo, mindfulness ... if you embrace these things you… read more
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2. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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3. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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4. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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- history
- audiobook
5. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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6. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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7. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- audiobook
8. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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9. Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
By: Jeff Horwitz
3.90
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
By an award-winning technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at th… read more
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10. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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11. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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12. Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
By: Danielle Friedman
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's… read more
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13. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes
By: Christine Yu
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more
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14. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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15. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
16. The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
By: Rina Raphael
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness how it stems from legitimate compla… read more
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17. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
By: Christy Harrison
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more
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18. All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
By: Rainesford Stauffer
3.56
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of … read more
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19. Sweat: A History of Exercise
By: Bill Hayes
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and mak… read more
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20. Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
By: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
3.63
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit N… read more
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21. Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture
By: Justice Roe Williams
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is pre… read more
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