9 Top nonfiction books like Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist by Caroline Shahbaz

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Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist

By: Caroline Shahbaz

4.38

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

As a result of recent media interest, the practice of BDSM has become more mainstream yet remains m…

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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

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2. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

By: Ian Kerner

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First--anessential gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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4. Funny Girl

By: Nick Hornby

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in 1960's London, Funny Girlis a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie … read more

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5. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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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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  • sexuality
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7. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

By: Mary Doria Russell

3.77

Format: None pages,

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more

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8. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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9. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

10. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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11. The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge

By: Laura Antoniou , Tristan Taormino , Patrick Califia-Rice , Lee Harrington , Madison Young , None , Midori , Hardy Haberman , Jack Rinella , Barbara Carrellas , None , None , None , None , None , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Guide to Kinkis the first major guide to BDSM in a generation--a bold and sexy collect… read more

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12. Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities

By: None , None

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities delves into the unique experiences… read more

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13. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more

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14. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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15. A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.62

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she… read more

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"Well, Harold,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

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16. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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17. Severance

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more

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"New York has a way of forgetting you."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."

-Ling Ma, Severance

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18. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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19. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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20. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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21. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more

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"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

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23. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

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24. The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

By: Olivie Blake

2.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library… read more

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"Is this actually possible?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"It means the archives are “alive"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I will spend my life orbiting your,"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I'm constantly at risk for peril. Ask anyone!"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

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25. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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26. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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27. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

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28. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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29. The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

By: Lola Phoenix

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Embarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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30. Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients)

By: Martha Kauppi

4.56

Format: 500 pages, ebook

Your favorite long-term client tells you they want to open up their relationship. Are you ready to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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31. Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist

By: Caroline Shahbaz

4.38

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

As a result of recent media interest, the practice of BDSM has become more mainstream yet remains m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Transform Your Habits

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

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She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Ian Kerner

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Little Birds

Anaïs Nin

4.38

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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Transform Your Habits

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Nick Harkaway

4.03

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