14 must-read nonfiction books like Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • adult
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

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  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier by Marisa Meltzer

4. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

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  • fashion
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

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5. 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

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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7. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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8. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

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  • adult
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9. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • adult
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11. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • adult
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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12. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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13. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

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  • adult
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14. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

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  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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16. 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

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"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

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17. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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  • short stories
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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18. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin  Graham

19. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. 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

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  • adult
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21. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

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  • short stories
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22. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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23. Pearce Oysters

By: Joselyn Takacs

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A family drama set along the Louisiana coastline during the 2010 BP Oil Spill, Pearce Oysters follo… read more

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24. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • adult
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25. But How Are You, Really

By: Ella Dawson

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more

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  • adult
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26. Snake Oil

By: Kelsey Rae Dimberg

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and twisty novel of literary suspense that interrogates the dark side of wellness, startup … read more

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

27. 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

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong

28. 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

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  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • fashion
  • adult
Cover of The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander by Denny S.  Bryce

29. The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this ca… read more

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30. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

By: Charlotte Shane

3.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction

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