19 Best nonfiction books like China Fights Back - An American Women With The Eighth Route Army by Agnes Smedley

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China Fights Back - An American Women With The Eighth Route Army

By: Agnes Smedley

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extreme…

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1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

By: Laini Taylor

3.99

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers w… read more

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"Alas. I am not an option."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"My tiny scary friend is coming"

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"We dreamed together of the world remade."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"To take from the universe, you must give."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

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2. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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3. The Cancer Journals

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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4. The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

By: Germaine Greer , None , Alexandra Kollontai

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Prefatory Note This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Alien: Sea of Sorrows (Canonical Alien trilogy, #2)

By: James A. Moore

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker's job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 fo… read more

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6. Red Sorghum

By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt

3.63

Format: None pages,

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks th… read more

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  • china

7. Alien: Out of the Shadows (Canonical Alien trilogy, #1)

By: Tim Lebbon

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolati… read more

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8. Everything I Never Told You

By: Celeste Ng

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese America… read more

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9. Solanin

By: Inio Asano , None

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Na… read more

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10. Strumpet City

By: James Plunkett

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embra… read more

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11. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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12. Gigantomachia

By: Kentaro Miura

3.79

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Su una Terra irriconoscibile a causa di una catastrofe che ha portato alla formazione di un nuovo e… read more

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13. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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14. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

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15. Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

By: Anuradha Ghandy

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Ghandy's vital text that outlines the history of the world's feminist movements and critiques them … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Us Three

By: Ruth Jones

4.04

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A touching celebration of the beauty and endurance of fem… read more

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17. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

By: Michiko Aoyama

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more

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18. The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more

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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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19. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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20. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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21. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The German Communist Resistance

By: T. Derbent

4.36

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

When the KPD was banned, its paramilitary formations numbered over 100,000 members. The Antifa Leag… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Let Me Lie

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. One year ago, Caro… read more

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"Mental illness isn’t always obvious."

-Clare Mackintosh, Let Me Lie

"You never know what goes on behind closed doors."

-Clare Mackintosh, Let Me Lie

"No one’s proud of a failed marriage. No one’s proud of being a victim."

-Clare Mackintosh, Let Me Lie

"I would like to live the rest of my life knowing exactly what is happening each hour, each day."

-Clare Mackintosh, Let Me Lie

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24. Red Star Over the Third World

By: Vijay Prashad

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

By: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

4.58

Format: 75 pages, ebook

This classic small book provides the outline of the strategy and overall vision of the Popular Fron… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

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  • nonfiction
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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27. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

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28. The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century

By: Carlos Martínez

4.57

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba; Convenor, International Manifesto Group): In a wor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • china
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29. The Hedgehog Handbook

By: Sally Coulthard

4.21

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Hedgehogs, with their quiet determination and bristling, bumbling ways, are seen by many of one of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. China Fights Back - An American Women With The Eighth Route Army

By: Agnes Smedley

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extreme… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • china
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31. New Women in New China

By: Foreign Languages Press

4.12

Format: 78 pages, None

"New Women in New China" is a collection of articles about the tremendous changes— political and ec… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • china

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Germaine Greer , None , Alexandra Kollontai

4.06

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Vladimir Lenin

4.23

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Vincent Bevins

4.61

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4.18

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