8 Best politics books like What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg

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What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

By: Anastasia Berg

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A modern argument grounded in philosophy and culture about childbearing ambivalence and how to over…

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1. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

By: Allison Bornstein

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery  using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more

Similar categories in Allison Bornstein's Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • nonfiction
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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

Similar categories in Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • cultural
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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4. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jones's Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • politics
  • parenting
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • childrens
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6. 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

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • nonfiction
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7. One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

By: Matthew Yglesias

3.88

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memor… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Yglesias's One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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8. 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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9. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

Similar categories in Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Health and Safety: A Breakdown

By: Emily Witt

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex (“introspective and breathtakin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • relationships
"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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12. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. 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

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

"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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14. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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15. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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16. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Pelosi's The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

Similar categories in Nate Silver's On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

By: Anastasia Berg

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A modern argument grounded in philosophy and culture about childbearing ambivalence and how to over… read more

Similar categories in Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • cultural
  • relationships
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

By: Kyle Prue

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

BE NO MAN'S PEACE. Have you ever been badgered by an annoying pick-up artist at the bar? Ever fe… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Prue's How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • nonfiction
"One thing at a time, guys. I’m not a miracle worker; I’m a collection of thirty rats operating a person suit via tiny levers and pulleys."

-Kyle Prue, How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

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20. The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility

By: Natalie Lampert

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating investigation into the lucrative, minimally regulated, fast-growing industry of egg f… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lampert's The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility book and Anastasia Berg's What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

  • nonfiction
  • parenting

15 Best nonfiction books like What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg

Transform Your Habits

Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

Allison Bornstein

4.03

Transform Your Habits

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

4.54

Transform Your Habits

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

Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

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20 Top fiction books like The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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