28 must-read nonfiction books like Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism by Macaela MacKenzie

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Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism

By: Macaela MacKenzie

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality—on and off the field   Wome…

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1. ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life

By: Selene Yeager , Stacy T. Sims

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Women are not small men. Stop eating and training like one. Because most nutrition products and tra… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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2. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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4. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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5. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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7. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Activate Your Greatness

By: Alex Toussaint

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Alex Toussaint, the Peloton star who counts everyone from Roger Federer and the Golden State Warrio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

11. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

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  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

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12. The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

By: Caster Semenya

4.27

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and car… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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13. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

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  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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14. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

By: Prachi Gupta

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

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16. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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17. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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18. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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19. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

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  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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20. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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Cover of Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith  O'Brien

22. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

By: Keith O'Brien

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air ra… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie  Barnes

23. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

By: Katie Barnes

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more

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  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra

24. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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25. Trust Her

By: Flynn Berry

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more

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26. Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

By: Cecilia Aragon

4.54

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari

27. Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness

By: Shahd Alshammari

4.47

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society's stigmatiz… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When we fail at being who we are supposed to be, does that mean we can still find love? I am searching for answers and I think I have found one. When we fail, we have to hold each other up and bring …"

-Shahd Alshammari, Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness

Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

28. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

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29. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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30. Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism

By: Macaela MacKenzie

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality—on and off the field   Wome… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America by Julie Dicaro

31. Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

By: Julie Dicaro

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Shrill meets Brotopia in this personal and researched look at women's rights and issues through the… read more

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  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

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3.76

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Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman

4.47

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The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

Caster Semenya

4.27

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The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

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4.45

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Ed Zwick

4.03

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When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

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