7 Best short stories books like A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated by Tallulah Pomeroy

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A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

By: Tallulah Pomeroy

3.65

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

"A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I a disgusting, hilarious, and hone…

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1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

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2. Self-Help

By: Lorrie Moore

4.13

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs —and a master of contemporary American… read more

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  • short stories
"Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"You will forget whoever it was that said never trust a thought doesn't come while walking. But clutch at it. Apartments can shrink inward like drying ponds."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

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3. Sweetbitter

By: Stephanie Danler

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more

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4. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

By: Emily Dickinson

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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  • feminism
  • short stories
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5. Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Are you a special snowflake? Do you enjoy networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciti… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comics
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6. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • nonfiction
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7. Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

By: Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman , Dirk Maggs , Peter Serafinowicz , None

3.15

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's apocalyptic comic novel. A… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation book and Tallulah Pomeroy's A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

  • humor

8. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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9. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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10. The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story

By: Marie Kondō

4.20

Format: None pages,

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11. The Grownup

By: Gillian Flynn

3.56

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless frau… read more

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  • short stories
"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

12. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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13. Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman

By: Loryn Brantz

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

(Librarian's note: There is an ebook edition with the same ISBN - ISBN: ) A collection of Loryn Br… read more

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14. Acts of Desperation

By: Megan Nolan

3.74

Format: 288 pages, None

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic … read more

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"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

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15. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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16. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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17. Sea of Strangers

By: Lang Leav

3.68

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Sea of Strangers  by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The distance from you is measured in how far I've come."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

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18. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
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19. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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  • short stories
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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20. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By: Deya Muniz

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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21. Woman World

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.04

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of socie… read more

Similar categories in Aminder Dhaliwal's Woman World book and Tallulah Pomeroy's A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

  • feminism
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
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22. 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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23. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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24. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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25. Winter in Sokcho

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.56

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more

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"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

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26. Fleabag: The Scriptures

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming script… read more

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  • feminism
  • humor
"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

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27. The Old Woman with the Knife

By: Gu Byeong-mo

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more

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28. A Very Nice Girl

By: Imogen Crimp

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more

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29. At Dusk

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Pa… read more

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"No sooner did I start college than President Park Chung-hee’s Yushin dictatorship began. Everything was in turmoil, and not a day went by without riots and school closures. My classmates were being a…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

"I sympathised with those who were fighting social injustices, but at the same time, by having the fortitude to just buckle down and get through it, I was able to forgive myself for not getting involv…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

"Back then, rice was in short supply, and the government was waging a campaign to encourage people to eat more flour and mixed grains. At school, our lunchboxes were inspected daily, and anyone caught…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

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30. A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

By: Tallulah Pomeroy

3.65

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

"A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I a disgusting, hilarious, and hone… read more

Similar categories in Tallulah Pomeroy's A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated book and Tallulah Pomeroy's A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

  • art
  • health
  • feminism
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • comics
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31. What the fuck is this

By: Celeste Mountjoy

4.18

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Australian artist Celeste Mountjoy (aka Filthyratbag) aims for the heart in her first book, WHAT TH… read more

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  • art
  • feminism
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction

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Sarah Andersen

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3.15

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3.94

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4.16

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4.27

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4.25

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