5 must-read history books like Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina G. Kunzel

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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

By: Regina G. Kunzel

4.12

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subj…

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1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • 20th century
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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2. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928

By: David Wallace Adams

4.00

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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4. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

By: Kate Moore

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discov… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. Bad Feminist

By: Roxane Gay

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more

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6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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7. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

By: Greg Grandin

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is … read more

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8. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

By: Jean Genet , George L. Jackson , None

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brotheris an outspoken condemnation of the r… read more

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9. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

By: John Howard

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparallele… read more

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10. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

By: None

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

How Sex Changedis a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the Unit… read more

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11. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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12. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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13. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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14. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

By: Greg Grandin

4.29

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

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15. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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16. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.94

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more

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"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

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17. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

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"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

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18. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

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19. Nightcrawling

By: Leila Mottley

3.98

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina G. Kunzel

21. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

By: Regina G. Kunzel

4.12

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subj… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • 20th century
  • gender and sexuality
  • sociology
  • queer

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3.52

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Benjamín Labatut

4.14

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