Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You
By: Gina Martin
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.'Gina Mar…
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1. Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive
By: Kristen J. Sollee
3.85
Format: 178 pages, ebook
Witch, Slut, Feminist: these contested identities are informing millennial women as they counter a … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. The Cows
By: Dawn O'Porter
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
COW n. /ka?/ A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd. Women don't ha… read more
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- feminism
4. Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.
By: Lisa Lister
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A witch is a wise woman, a healer. Yet for so long the word "witch" has had negative connotations. … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
5. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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6. Everyday Sexism
By: Laura Bates
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, s… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Women who lead, read"-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Disbelief is the first great silencer."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
7. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
8. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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9. Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
By: Diccon Bewes
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Islandis a light-hearted yet revealing journey around Eu… read more
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10. A House in the Sky
By: Sara Corbett , Amanda Lindhout
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful… read more
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11. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
13. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
14. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change
By: Aja Barber
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
15. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
16. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
17. Women Don't Owe You Pretty
By: Florence Given
3.72
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to...love sex, hate sexism,protect your goddamn energy,lif… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- self help
"Promise yourself to stop buying into people’s potential. You’re not a start-up investor."-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
"Imagine all of the past versions of yourself, standing right in front of you. They are all smiling, looking back at you. They are so proud of you."-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
"Up until now we have been bombarded with the same stories that either make us subconsciously hate ourselves or hate others. It’s time to change the narrative, and the power lies in your hands. Consum…"-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
18. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
19. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- nonfiction
20. I Owe You One
By: Sophie Kinsella
3.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an irresistible story of love and empowe… read more
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"Family bloody first."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"I'm not gullible, I'm trusting."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"The law doesn’t always know what it’s doing,"-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
"The trouble is, I'm sorry doesn't power anything. It drags you down."-Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One
21. 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
22. The Mess We’re In
By: Annie Macmanus
3.40
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more
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23. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)
By: Juno Dawson
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more
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24. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
25. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
26. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- society
27. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
28. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)
By: Juno Dawson
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more
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29. It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult
By: Kat Brown
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Nobody should spend their life feeling defective. Everyone deserves to have a user manual to their … read more
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- nonfiction
30. Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You
By: Gina Martin
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.'Gina Mar… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- society
- self help
31. V: An empowering celebration of the vulva and vagina
By: Florence Schechter
4.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of the world's first Vagina Museum, discover your go-to guide to the vulva.The Vul… read more
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- nonfiction
