7 must-read feminism books like Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox

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Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present

By: Clement Knox

3.27

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through…

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1. The Merry Wives of Windsor

By: William Shakespeare

3.55

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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2. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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3. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

By: Cordelia Fine

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with do… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

4. Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

By: Pat Shipman

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than… read more

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5. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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  • audiobook
"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

6. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook

By: Martin Dugard

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

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7. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By: Elizabeth Smart

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more

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8. African Psycho

By: Alain Mabanckou , None

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis's infamous book, but while Ellis's narrator was a blank slate, … read more

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9. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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10. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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12. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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15. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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16. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Gemma Hollman

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Renaissance: The Transformation of the West

By: Jennifer McNabb

4.03

Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio

26 hours and 35 minutes While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of th… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more

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  • adult
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19. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

By: Patti McCracken

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther

By: Craig Pittman

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition (English and French Edition)

By: Robert Kehew

4.07

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their song… read more

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  • history
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22. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. The Wife of Bath: A Biography

By: Marion Turner

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous characte… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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24. The Tudors. Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

By: Elizabeth Cleland

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought changes to England that… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

By: Donna M. Lucey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey il… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a Time

By: Tom Miller

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Richly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's u… read more

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27. The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History

By: Peter B Dedek

4.24

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

By: Michiko Iwasaka

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present

By: Clement Knox

3.27

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • world history
  • feminism
  • historical
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

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  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • audiobook

7 must-read adult books like Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox

Transform Your Habits

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Monica Potts

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

Patti McCracken

3.45

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Transform Your Habits

Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

Terry Pratchett

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

Terry Pratchett

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The High Middle Ages

Philip Daileader

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

Mary Beard

3.63

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