16 must-read nonfiction books like Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory by Mimi Marinucci

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Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory

By: Mimi Marinucci

4.03

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

In Feminism is Queer, Mimi Marinucci provides a valuable introduction to the intimately related dis…

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1. Black Looks: Race and Representation

By: bell hooks

4.36

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment."

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates “whiten…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will ma…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

"The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life…"

-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

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2. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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3. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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4. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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5. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction

6. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

By: Paul Karl Feyerabend

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

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7. Gravity and Grace

By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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9. Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

By: Slavoj Žižek , None

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless… read more

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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. The Witch Boy

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more

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12. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

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"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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13. House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

By: Erin A. Craig

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Library Binding

A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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"Besides, what else am I meant to be doing? I didn't laze around in life and I certainly wasn't going to start in death."

-Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

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14. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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15. Lovesickness

By: Junji Ito

4.03

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

AN INTOXICATING BEAUTY TURNS A SMALL TOWN INTO A BLOODY HELL. Ryusuke returns to the town where … read more

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16. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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17. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • lgbt
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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18. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

By: Nicole LePera

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more

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19. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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20. Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

By: Anita Kelly

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on th… read more

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  • lgbt
"And it was hard to explain. That they didn't want to be a man, but that they had never felt quite right as a girl. That they only started to feel really okay when they understood they could be their …"

-Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

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21. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

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"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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22. The Fiancée Farce

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a s… read more

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23. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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24. Kiss Her Once for Me

By: Alison Cochrun

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an… read more

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"I have Andrew, who walked back into my life and then kindly refused to walk back out again."

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"You're not my beard. Everyone knows my sexuality is like a Rorschach test." "What does that even mean?" "What you see when you look at me says a lot more about you than it does about me."

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"We are two queer women, and we're going to use this drive back to the cabin to do what queer women do." Blood pressure: rising. "And, uh, what's that?" "We're going to talk about our feelings" Well. …"

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"I'm demi," I say. Then stupidly, I clarify "-sexual. Not demiromantic or a demigirl or a demigod like Hercules." [...] "I didn't think you were coming out to me as the mythological hero Hercules." "S…"

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

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25. The Great Reclamation

By: Rachel Heng

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more

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"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

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26. The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.29

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys… read more

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  • lgbt
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27. The Midwinter Witch (The Witch Boy, #3)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.27

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed graphic novel world of The Witch Boy and The Hidden Witch comes to a thrilling conclu… read more

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  • lgbt
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28. Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution

By: Maurizio Lazzarato

3.33

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism. W… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Uncut Funk

By: bell hooks

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory

By: Mimi Marinucci

4.03

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

In Feminism is Queer, Mimi Marinucci provides a valuable introduction to the intimately related dis… read more

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10 must-read lgbt books like Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory by Mimi Marinucci

Transform Your Habits

The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

Anita Kelly

3.82

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5 best-selling audiobook books like Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Transform Your Habits

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski

4.14

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