8 must-read nonfiction books like An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre by Paul Avrich

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An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

By: Paul Avrich

4.16

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

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If you liked the nonfiction plot in An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre by Paul Avrich , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

By: Brené Brown

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and professor Brene Brown offers a powerful and inspiring book t… read more

Similar categories in Brené Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are book and Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

  • nonfiction
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2. Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

By: Alexander Berkman , Voltairine de Cleyre , Hippolyte Havel

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

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Similar categories in Alexander Berkman's Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre book and Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction book and Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

  • nonfiction
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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4. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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5. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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6. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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7. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

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8. An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

By: Paul Avrich

4.16

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The description for this book, An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre, will be for… read more

Similar categories in Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre book and Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine De Cleyre

  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism

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