5 Top essays books like Exit the Body: Essays by Heather Bartel

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Exit the Body: Essays

By: Heather Bartel

5.00

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays c…

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1. Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song

By: Kara Vernor

4.41

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost lo… read more

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2. I Once Met You But You Were Dead

By: S.J. Sindu

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2016 TURNBUCKLE CHAPBOOK CONTEST I Once Met You But You Were Dead is a hybrid chapboo… read more

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3. Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home

By: None

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home delivers on its title with wonderfully knowing stories at once gene… read more

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4. felt in the jaw

By: Kristen Arnett

4.25

Format: 194 pages,

In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women a… read more

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5. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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6. Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Jessica tells of growing up in 1980s Texas where s… read more

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"Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"...The people I want to focus on are Lesa, who was kind to me and went on to become a successful therapist, and you. If you are being bullied, whether it's because you're gay or someone decides they …"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

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7. Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

By: Leslie Brody

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- a… read more

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8. Love Letters to a Serial Killer

By: Tasha Coryell

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, o… read more

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9. The Church of Wrestling

By: Emily Thomas Mani

4.27

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Jenny Arsenault is an undefeated wrestler, thanks in large part to the guiding prin… read more

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10. The Space Poet

By: Samantha Edmonds

4.74

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

In this hybrid work of prose and poetry, Samantha Edmonds tells the story of an artist—the first in… read more

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11. Tracing the Desire Line

By: Melissa Matthewson

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The st… read more

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12. Flee

By: Calvin Walds

4.80

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move. Flee is… read more

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13. Double Negative

By: Claudia Putnam

4.80

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Double Negative examines the grammatical l… read more

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14. The Part That Burns

By: Jeannine Ouellette

4.26

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

“You can tear a thing apart and tape it back together,” writes Jeannine Ouellette, “and it will sti… read more

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15. The Incredible Shrinking Woman

By: Athena Dixon

4.50

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection, The Incredibl… read more

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16. Phantom Advances

By: Mary Lynn Reed

4.81

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In Mary Lynn Reed’s debut short story collection, Phantom Advances, young queer women travel Americ… read more

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17. Hungry People

By: Tasha Coryell

4.57

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

"In Hungry People, Tasha Coryell gives us food for hungry hearts. The women are anxious and complic… read more

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18. The Quiet Part Loud

By: Tyler Barton

4.61

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Tyler Barton's flash fiction chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud, is a collection of eleven very short st… read more

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19. This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.

By: Jennifer Wortman

4.69

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. contains thirteen stories, full-length and flash, that expl… read more

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20. The Invention of Love

By: Sara Schaff

4.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What is love, if not an invention -- not just a human instinct but an artful construction? The wome… read more

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21. An Inventory of Abandoned Things

By: Kelly Ann Jacobson

4.47

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Fiction Chapbook Contest ​In Kelly Ann Jacobson's An Inventory of Abandoned T… read more

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22. My Share of the Body

By: Devon Capizzi

4.82

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

My Share of the Body, Devon Capizzi's debut story collection, explores loss and the cost of coming … read more

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23. 48 Blitz

By: Brett Biebel

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Set along the 455 Nebraska miles of Interstate 80, the 48 stories in Brett Biebel’s debut collectio… read more

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24. Maybe This Is What I Deserve

By: Tucker Leighty-Phillips

4.91

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy ​Tucker Leighty-Phillips b… read more

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25. Exit the Body: Essays

By: Heather Bartel

5.00

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays c… read more

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26. Halfway from Home

By: Sarah Fawn Montgomery

4.81

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

When she left a chaotic home at eighteen, Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming place… read more

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27. Sister Golden Calf

By: Colleen Burner

4.40

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Gloria and her sister Kit are in the trade of rehoming invisible ephemera they've captured in jars … read more

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28. Submarine

By: Anurag Andra

4.76

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

“I dream something new this time.” Submarine tells the coming-of-age story of Subramaniam, a se… read more

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29. Midwatch

By: Jillian Danback-McGhan

4.86

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"Danback-McGhan’s exquisite and unforgettable stories reveal the ways that women are made to pay fo… read more

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30. Everything's Changing

By: Chelsea Stickle

4.59

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

Everything is changing in towns across the United States. What we think we know is wrong. Animals h… read more

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"I’m sorry to report that if you can hear me, you’re dead. Such a shame. But don’t worry. We’ll help you adjust."

-Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing

"People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but that’s not true. Theaters are haunted by bored ghost girls. They’ve spooked everyone worth spooking. Wandered Pari…"

-Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing

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31. Holy American Burnout!

By: Sean Enfield

4.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

“Profound insights into the current reality of America, taking on race, inequality, violence, and e… read more

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4.41

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