6 best-selling health books like Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy) by Susan Raffo

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Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)

By: Susan Raffo

4.51

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Self-transformation requires social transformation. Social transformation requires self-transformat…

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1. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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2. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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3. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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4. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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5. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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6. Inciting Joy: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

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7. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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8. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Susan Raffo's Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
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9. The Electricity of Every Living Thing

By: Katherine May

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."

-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing

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10. 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
  • social justice
"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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11. ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain

By: Tracy Otsuka

4.13

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to em… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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12. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

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13. Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

By: Renee Linklater

4.46

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communitie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
"Implying that realities are merely psychotic experiences or that they exist in a realm that is not legitimate disregards Indigenous belief systems, which value spiritual experiences and recognize the…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"Duran argues for the need for healing institutions to retain culturally competent staff and that the adherence to strictly Western models of treatment maintains the colonization process. Hodge, Limb,…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"It is widely recognized that Indigenous peoples are often not well served by Western treatment styles and those seeking help are often confronted with more alienation and traumatization. Sones et al.…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

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14. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.50

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Before she was an NYT bestselling author, adrienne was known for her work as a facilitator, mediato… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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15. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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16. Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World--Practices for connecting somatics, nature, and social change

By: Abigail Rose Clarke

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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17. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
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18. Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant sele… read more

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  • social justice
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19. Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)

By: Susan Raffo

4.51

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Self-transformation requires social transformation. Social transformation requires self-transformat… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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20. Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.53

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown transcends binary thinking about "accountabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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21. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.48

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.16

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4.25

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4.08

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4.33

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4.25

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4.32

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