Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different
By: Lisa Selin Davis
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of th…
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1. Body of Truth: Change Your Life by Changing the Way You Think about Weight and Health
By: Harriet Brown
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession w… read more
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2. First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
By: Kate Andersen Brower
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White Ho… read more
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3. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
By: Liz Prince
3.86
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing pretty princess like … read more
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4. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
6. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
7. Go with the Flow
By: Lily Williams
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Ab… read more
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- feminism
8. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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- feminism
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- audiobook
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
9. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- queer
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
10. 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
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
By: Helen Joyce
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more
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- feminism
- gender
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- sociology
"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
12. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- queer
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
13. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
4.19
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
14. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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15. Fine: A Comic About Gender
By: Rhea Ewing
4.28
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Washington Post • 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 A vibrant and informative debut with “great doc… read more
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- queer
"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender
16. Life's Too Short: A Memoir
By: Darius Rucker
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award–winning, Diamond-selling le… read more
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17. ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain
By: Tracy Otsuka
4.13
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to em… read more
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- psychology
- audiobook
18. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- womens
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19. The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
By: Meghan Daum
3.54
Format: 256 pages, ebook
“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue “Personal, con… read more
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- audiobook
"The place I took off from three years ago is not the place where I've landed. And though I'm still not sure what to make of this terrain, I can tell you that the intellectual uncertainty into which i…"-Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
20. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
By: Sarah Kendzior
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the … read more
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- history
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"The nightmares I had been fending off had come home in the form of the Trump administration: a white supremacist kleptocracy linked to a transnational crime syndicate, using digital media to manipula…"-Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
"It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming. It is worse when the threat reveals itself to be real, especially when many of those you warned still dismiss it, and you do not know whether their …"-Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
21. Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different
By: Lisa Selin Davis
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of th… read more
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- gender
- psychology
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- womens
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