Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
By: Lisa Hilton
3.50
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the m…
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. Feminine Gospels: Poems
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women--historical and imagined, real-life … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
5. Saga, Vol. 6 (Saga, #6)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues… read more
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6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- feminism
7. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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- feminism
8. Lucifer, Book One (Lucifer, #1)
By: Mike Carey , Neil Gaiman , Peter Gross , Dean Ormston , Chris Weston , Ryan Kelly , Scott Hampton , James Hodgkins
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cast out of Heaven, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his throne in Hell for Los Angeles. Emerging f… read more
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9. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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- feminism
"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
10. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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11. Selected Poems
By: Emily Dickinson
3.85
Format: None pages,
Emily Dickinson was born into a prominent New England family. Sociable as a child, she grew increas… read more
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12. A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world
By: Jane Cholmeley
4.25
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Brit… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
13. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Herc
By: Phoenicia Rogerson
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more
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15. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- audiobook
16. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
17. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
18. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- feminism
- audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
19. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
By: Claire North
3.70
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more
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- audiobook
"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
20. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
21. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
22. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
23. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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24. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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25. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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- audiobook
26. Exciting Times
By: Naoise Dolan
3.23
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more
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- audiobook
"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
27. Queen Hereafter
By: Isabelle Schuler
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more
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- audiobook
28. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
29. The Agency for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #1)
By: Laura Wood
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a… read more
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- feminism
30. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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- audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
31. Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
By: Lisa Hilton
3.50
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the m… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
