8 must-read feminism books like Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler

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Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present

By: Mary Ziegler

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American deba…

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1. Miss Lonelyhearts

By: Nathanael West

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more

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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."

-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

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2. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Kabu Kabu

By: Nnedi Okorafor , Alan Dean Foster , Whoopi Goldberg

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nned… read more

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"Two footsteps do not make a path."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

"The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

"We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward a…"

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

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4. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more

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6. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

By: Philip Gourevitch

3.36

Format: None pages,

In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more

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7. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more

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8. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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9. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more

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10. Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.90

Format: None pages,

Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped… read more

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11. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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12. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more

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13. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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14. Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)

By: Craig Alanson

4.47

Format: 697 pages, Kindle Edition

When a mission ends in disaster and there is no way to achieve the objective, no way to regroup and… read more

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15. Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)

By: Craig Alanson

4.38

Format: 697 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens in the wake of Failure Mode? The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unex… read more

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16. Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)

By: Craig Alanson

4.51

Format: 698 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been … read more

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17. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By: Heather McGhee

4.63

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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18. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

By: Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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19. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Sex Object: A Memoir

By: Jessica Valenti

3.66

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

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21. Daddy

By: Emma Cline

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more

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22. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

By: Deirdre Cooper Owens

4.14

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. Grey Bees

By: Andrey Kurkov

4.07

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more

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25. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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26. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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27. Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

By: Lauren Rankin

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting Abortion has… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion by Katie Watson

28. Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

By: Katie Watson

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right over 40 years ago, it bears stig… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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29. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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30. Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present

By: Mary Ziegler

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American deba… read more

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  • history
  • school
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • society
Cover of Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti

31. Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

By: Jessica Valenti

4.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the … read more

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6 Top womens books like Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler

Transform Your Habits

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

Lauren Rankin

4.21

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Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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