This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
By: Marieke Bigg
3.44
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply t…
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1. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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2. The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
By: Ichiro Kishimi
4.04
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The author team behind worldwide bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked return with the must-have co… read more
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3. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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4. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- feminism
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"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
5. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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6. For You and Only You (You, #4)
By: Caroline Kepnes
3.31
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he's writing them. And he's off to a … read more
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"You're a Goodreads girl."-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
"I don't kill women, I love them!"-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
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"Am I losing you? Don't you think I'm smart? Funny?"-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
7. This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
By: Sarah E. Hill
4.06
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control shou… read more
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- health
- medical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- science
"Although the science is still new and there is a lot to be learned, it is unacceptable for you to stay in the dark any longer. We know too much for you to know so little."-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"Despite the newness of the science and tentativeness of the conclusions that can currently be drawn, changing women's hormones changes women. And this is a big deal. Although we don't yet know that t…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"It should come as absolutely no surprise that research has ignored women for so long because the establishment: the journal publishers, the reviewers and the funding agencies has rewarded it. Althoug…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"For a long time being female was treated by science and medicine as being akin to having a serious psychological disorder. Women were routinely prescribed hysterectomies or anxiolytics like valium to…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
8. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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9. Lights (Sheets, #3)
By: Brenna Thummler
4.27
Format: 366 pages, None
Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell’s human life in t… read more
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10. The Book of Fire
By: Christy Lefteri
3.83
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more
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11. Too Many Reasons to Live
By: Rob Burrow
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
‘Occasionally in life you come across a person who is talented yet humble, brave but not foolish, i… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- science
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
13. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
- health
14. Why Women Are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma
By: Jessica Taylor
3.76
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was to… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
15. The Seven Ages of Death
By: Richard Shepherd
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
- health
16. That Bonesetter Woman
By: Frances Quinn
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Endurance Proudfoot – England’s strongest woman, boldest adventurer and first female bonesette… read more
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17. The F**k It! List
By: Melanie Cantor
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Daisy Settle has it all. A successful interior design firm, a happy relationship, a beautiful house… read more
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18. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
By: Hannah Kaner
3.94
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more
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"Some things are done out of love."-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)
19. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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20. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- health
- medical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- science
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
21. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
22. The Cutting Season
By: M.W. Craven
4.11
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
Poe's just hanging around on a Saturday afternoon... Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plan… read more
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23. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
By: Angela Saini
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more
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24. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
25. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath
By: Lech Blaine
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more
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26. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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27. Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
By: Jessica Taylor
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, bor… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- health
28. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories
By: Chris Atkins
4.34
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth
By: Rebecca Humphries
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Ruined
By: Sarah Vaughn
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that … read more
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31. This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
By: Marieke Bigg
3.44
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply t… read more
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