7 Top history books like Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly by Guerrilla Girls

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Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

By: Guerrilla Girls

4.54

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Gu…

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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

4.25

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Her body is one long sigh."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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2. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

By: Marina Abramović

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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3. And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.82

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwyla likes it that way. Ever since she and … read more

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  • historical
"No!"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"A brother,"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"I am yours,"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"Did you do this?"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

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4. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anythin… read more

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5. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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6. Little Birds

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more

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7. I Want My Hat Back

By: Jon Klassen

4.35

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The … read more

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"What if I never see it again? What if nobody ever finds it? My poor hat. I miss it so much."

-Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back

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8. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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  • art
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"… maybe you can tell how much pain someone is in by watching them laugh."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

9. No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more

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10. Slave Girl

By: Tim Tate , Sarah Forsyth

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the age of three, the very people who were meant to be looking after and protecting Sarah Fors… read more

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11. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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12. 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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"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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13. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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14. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

By: Catherine McCormack

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

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15. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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16. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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17. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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18. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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19. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

3.57

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more

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  • historical
"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."

-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

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21. Aphrodite Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

3.97

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more

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  • feminism
"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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22. A Short History of the World According to Sheep

By: Sally Coulthard

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

By: Linda Nochlin

4.33

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Keturi

By: Virginija Kulvinskaitė

3.80

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Virginijos Kulvinskaitės apsakymų rinkinys „Keturi“ yra trečioji rašytojos knyga: 2017 m. pasirodė … read more

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25. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

By: Ellena Savage

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

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26. 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
"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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27. Žiūrėti ir būti žiūrimai: feministinės kino teorijos sąvokos ir komiksai

By: Natalija Arlauskaitė

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kas sieja kiborgus ir miuziklus, kino malonumą ir stereotipus, balsą ir emancipaciją? Knyga „Žiū… read more

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28. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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29. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

By: Guerrilla Girls

4.54

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Gu… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • social justice
  • activism
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30. Paris (Extended Edition): The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.28

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

None read more

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31. The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago

By: Judy Chicago

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media … read more

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  • art
  • feminism
  • nonfiction

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Kiersten White

3.82

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Catherine McCormack

4.35

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4.31

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Elizabeth Strout

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