12 must-read nonfiction books like Rescued by a Feminist: An Indian tale of equality and other myths by Saloni Chopra

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Rescued by a Feminist: An Indian tale of equality and other myths

By: Saloni Chopra

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Packed with opinion pieces and personal anecdotes, this book explores hard-hitting themes such as f…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rescued by a Feminist: An Indian tale of equality and other myths by Saloni Chopra , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Cobalt Blue

By: Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Sachin Kundalkar started on his first novel at 20 and finished it when he was 22. The novel was Cob… read more

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"Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks."

-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue

"I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things."

-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue

"I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies."

-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue

"I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies."

-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue

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2. Blonde

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Claude Seban

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spir… read more

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3. Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more

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"Meat, ma'am, meat."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

4. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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5. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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7. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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8. The Forty Rules of Love

By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی

4.12

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more

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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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9. The Palace of Illusions

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more

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10. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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11. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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12. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

13. Bad Feminist

By: Roxane Gay

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more

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14. Chain of Gold (The Last Hours, #1)

By: Cassandra Clare

3.88

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

For as long as Lucie Herondale can remember, the Herondale family manor has adjourned the manor of … read more

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15. Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)

By: Cassandra Clare

3.88

Format: 383 pages,

A new trilogy, set around 1903, following the next generation of Shadowhunters after TID. More info… read more

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16. The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives"

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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17. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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18. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

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19. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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20. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

By: Ram V.

4.30

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more

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"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

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21. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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22. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

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"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

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23. Think Like a Monk

By: Jay Shetty

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wis… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time."

-Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk

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24. The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more

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  • feminism
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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25. Actually ... I Met Them: A Memoir

By: Gulzar

3.93

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Personal. Intimate. Deeply moving.An absolutely unputdownable memoir.Do memories ever fade away? Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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26. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

By: Lori Gottlieb

4.38

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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27. The Perils of Being Moderately Famous [Paperback] [Dec 01, 2017] Soha Ali Khan

By: Soha Ali Khan

3.43

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

What is it like to be known as Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's daughter? Or to have a mother as famous… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. The Illuminated

By: Anindita Ghose

3.58

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

'When the light shifts, you see the world differently.' A superbly nuanced work of fiction, Anindi… read more

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29. Rescued by a Feminist: An Indian tale of equality and other myths

By: Saloni Chopra

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Packed with opinion pieces and personal anecdotes, this book explores hard-hitting themes such as f… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. NEW DELHI LOVE SONGS

By: Michael Creighton

4.38

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

‘In these whimsical, deeply affectionate poems, New Delhi is both context and protagonist, alive in… read more

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31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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4.82

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