Your Story Matters
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do stories matter? I tell stories to make sense of the world as I see it. The world I have live…
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1. Anita and Me
By: Meera Syal
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daugh… read more
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2. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- self help
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
3. On Love
By: Alain de Botton
3.97
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
"The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset… read more
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"Must being in love always mean being in pain?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
4. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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6. The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
By: John Bradshaw , Sarah Ellis
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller "I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic… read more
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7. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
8. 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
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- 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
9. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
10. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
11. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
12. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
13. How We Love: Notes on a Life
By: Clementine Ford
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
14. No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"Cats have no guilt and very little shame."-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
"It's so much easier to blame the grownups than to be one."-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
"The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability."-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
"The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
15. Mrs Death Misses Death
By: Salena Godden
3.51
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. Mrs Death… read more
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"Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
"You live forever in your words, in hearts and memories, in your creations and connections. The seeds you sow, the child you raise, the song you sing, the story you write with your time here. You are …"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
16. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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17. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
18. A Fatal Crossing
By: Tom Hindle
3.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a wee… read more
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19. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
20. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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21. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- nonfiction
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
22. What Walks These Halls
By: Amy Clarkin
3.93
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
A prickling sensation grew on the back of her neck, spreading up her scalp. It was the feeling of b… read more
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23. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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- nonfiction
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
24. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
By: Anne Eekhout
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley’… read more
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25. Love and Other Puzzles
By: Kimberley Allsopp
3.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an… read more
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26. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more
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- writing
- self help
27. Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
By: Matt Rowland Hill
4.21
Format: 302 pages, ebook
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesm… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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29. Baby Does A Runner
By: Anita Rani
4.07
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong.Baby has had it with just about ever… read more
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30. With Love, Grief and Fury
By: Salena Godden
4.35
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet; grief poems brimming with… read more
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31. Your Story Matters
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do stories matter? I tell stories to make sense of the world as I see it. The world I have live… read more
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