16 must-read contemporary books like Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara

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Everyone's Invited

By: Soma Sara

4.28

Format: None pages, Audiobook

'Read this and learn – this is what a force for good looks like' Jess Phillips MP'Her work has dire…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. How Do You Like Me Now?

By: Holly Bourne

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's How Do You Like Me Now? book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
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2. Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

By: Cho Nam-Joo

3.72

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without c… read more

Similar categories in Cho Nam-Joo's Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
"W samochodzie Seunghun podziękował mi i kilka razy poprosił, żebym jak najczęściej przyjeżdżała do Geumju. Chciałam zapytać, czy jej dzieci, czyli jego mama oraz ciocie i wujkowie, często do niej wpa…"

-Cho Nam-Joo, Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

"– Ale rzecz w tym, że nie wyobrażam sobie świata bez babci. Nie liczę na cud. Po prostu chcę, żeby żyła. – Seunghun, ja chyba bym tego nie chciała na jej miejscu. Życie nie ma sensu, gdy nie można ni…"

-Cho Nam-Joo, Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

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3. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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4. 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

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Men Who Hate Women book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • 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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5. Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

By: Scarlett Curtis

4.01

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and … read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Curtis's Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"because Beyoncé"

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"No one gains when a culture exploits itself."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"She has a voice. If you can't hear it, maybe it's because you're too busy talking."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

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6. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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7. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

Similar categories in Karl Geary's Juno Loves Legs book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • contemporary
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8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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9. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

Similar categories in Suzie Miller's Prima Facie book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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10. Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard

4.03

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Women & Power: A Manifesto book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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11. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

Similar categories in Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
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12. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

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13. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
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14. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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15. Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life

By: Hayley Morris

3.97

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Brain: We left the oven on! Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this! Brain: The house i… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Morris's Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
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16. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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17. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Service book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • contemporary
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18. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Woman on the Pier

By: B.P. Walter

3.28

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Two strangers meet on the pier Only one walks away… Screenwriter Caroline Byrne is desperate to… read more

Similar categories in B.P. Walter's The Woman on the Pier book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • contemporary
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20. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • contemporary
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

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21. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
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22. I Am Not Your Baby Mother

By: Candice Brathwaite

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience … read more

Similar categories in Candice Brathwaite's I Am Not Your Baby Mother book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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23. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
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24. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

Cover of How to Be Somebody Else by Miranda Pountney

25. How to Be Somebody Else

By: Miranda Pountney

3.19

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is an uncomi… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Pountney's How to Be Somebody Else book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • contemporary
Cover of It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies] by Scarlett Curtis

26. It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

By: Scarlett Curtis

4.18

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a mental health. So we asked: What does yours mean to you? THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDIN… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Curtis's It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies] book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Nobody was busy somebody was interested .everyone cared"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"We need to release our fear of wanting to be liked, in order to embrace our need to be respected"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"There is nothing unnatural or wrong with a line on our face any more than there is with clover or a dandelion in a meadow."

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"Despite knowing that minds, like bodies, can break, have we decided that, if ours does, we've failed at being human? Is that part of the shame we feel when we ask for help with mental health difficul…"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

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27. My Past Is a Foreign Country

By: Zeba Talkhani

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 27-ye… read more

Similar categories in Zeba Talkhani's My Past Is a Foreign Country book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
Cover of All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates

28. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us

By: Kieran Yates

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 ‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more

Similar categories in Kieran Yates's All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • nonfiction
Cover of Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara

29. Everyone's Invited

By: Soma Sara

4.28

Format: None pages, Audiobook

'Read this and learn – this is what a force for good looks like' Jess Phillips MP'Her work has dire… read more

Similar categories in Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

30. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Anderson's Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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31. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

Similar categories in Scott Preston's The Borrowed Hills book and Soma Sara's Everyone's Invited

  • contemporary
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

19 best-selling nonfiction books like Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

Scarlett Curtis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back

Stacey Dooley

4.22

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Women Don't Owe You Pretty

Florence Given

3.72

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In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

Sarah Langford

4.08

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Sarah Sprinz

4.62

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