6 Best health books like Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Rachel Somerstein

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Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

By: Rachel Somerstein

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in Am…

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1. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts by Sarah Thornton

2. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby

3. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

By: Karen Valby

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more

Similar categories in Karen Valby's The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
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5. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Anderson's When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

6. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

7. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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8. The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

By: Rena Pederson

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high societ… read more

Similar categories in Rena Pederson's The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
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10. The Autoimmune Cure: Healing the Trauma and Other Triggers That Have Turned Your Body Against You

By: Sara Gottfried

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried reveals how trauma can rewire your body t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gottfried's The Autoimmune Cure: Healing the Trauma and Other Triggers That Have Turned Your Body Against You book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • health
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11. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
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12. Wildful

By: Kengo Kurimoto

4.17

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of The Secret G… read more

Similar categories in Kengo Kurimoto's Wildful book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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13. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

By: Ellen Atlanta

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flip… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Atlanta's Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • health
"We invited each other into our spaces when parents would allow – girls only in these altars of beauty. We were christened into girlhood, not by holy water or the consumption of Christ’s body and bloo…"

-Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Cover of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra

14. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

Similar categories in Shefali Luthra's Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

15. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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16. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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17. Between the Sound and Sea

By: Amanda Cox

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's Between the Sound and Sea book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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18. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • adult
Cover of I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child by Kristina Kuzmic

19. I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child

By: Kristina Kuzmic

4.70

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account o… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Kuzmic's I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity by Ruth Whippman

20. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity

By: Ruth Whippman

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Whippman's BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

21. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Twilley's Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

22. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Rachel Somerstein

23. Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

By: Rachel Somerstein

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in Am… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • history
  • parenting
  • health
  • medical
  • feminism
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong

24. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

By: Sable Yong

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay coll… read more

Similar categories in Sable Yong's Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Rachel Clarke

25. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

By: Rachel Clarke

4.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Clarke's The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg

26. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist

By: Jane Rosenberg

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more

Similar categories in Jane Rosenberg's Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir by Lola Milholland

27. Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir

By: Lola Milholland

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning… read more

Similar categories in Lola Milholland's Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness, #1) by Sarah Morgenthaler

28. The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness, #1)

By: Sarah Morgenthaler

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sarah Morgenthaler is back with a heart-mending contemporary romance featuring a single dad you'll … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Morgenthaler's The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness, #1) book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • adult
Cover of Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler

29. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

By: Abbott Kahler

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island … read more

Similar categories in Abbott Kahler's Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti

30. 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

Similar categories in Jessica Valenti's Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon by Lauren Sherman

31. Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

By: Lauren Sherman

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to an intimates monol… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Sherman's Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon book and Rachel Somerstein's Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history

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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

Barbara Weisberg

3.43

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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Jane Marie

3.78

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3.66

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Amanda Montell

3.54

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

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Kate Kennedy

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