17 must-read nonfiction books like Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry

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Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers

By: Anneka Harry

2.89

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, …

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1. The Secret Library

By: Oliver Tearle

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live,… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. Five Go Adventuring Again (Famous Five, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

There's a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prov… read more

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3. In the Dark

By: Mark Billingham

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing … read more

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4. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more

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5. Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas

By: Stuart MacBride

4.70

Format: None pages, ebook

A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the f… read more

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6. Sunstone, Vol. 3

By: Stjepan Šejić

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

STJEPAN SEJIC continues the critically acclaimed SUNSTONE series with volume three. A classy, sexy,… read more

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7. The Amateurs

By: John Niven

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Gary Irvine is pretty happy in Ardgirvan, a small town on Scotland's west coast. Only two things wo… read more

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8. Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George an… read more

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9. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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10. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

By: Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As seen on Tiktok,  Rainbow History Class  is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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11. The Dead of Winter

By: Stuart MacBride

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dyi… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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13. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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14. See It End (Dr. Gretchen White, #3)

By: Brianna Labuskes

4.48

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

A cold-blooded murder. A confession. And a mystery that’s just beginning in a shocking novel of psy… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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17. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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18. The Wall

By: John Lanchester

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more

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  • audiobook
"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

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19. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By: Dipo Faloyin

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. CSI Told You Lies

By: Meshel Laurie

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forens… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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22. The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

By: Rosalie Gilbert

3.53

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?An inside look at sexual practices in the medieval world. We… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Man Trapped By Shadows (Rooker Lindström, #2)

By: Pete Zacharias

4.21

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist. A serial killer. An invitation to the dark side. The risks are beyond imagining in th… read more

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  • audiobook
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24. Jew[ish]

By: Matt Greene

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

For author Matt Greene, “ish” was probably the most important part of being Jewish. Yes his family … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore

25. I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

By: Madeleine Dore

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives. Any given day … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • unfinished
  • audiobook
"We can't be perfectly balanced as we navigate the pendulum swing of our days--we can only wobble toward what we need."

-Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

"There is no end point to our days while we are living in them. Once we arrive at the end of one, we find ourselves at the starting point of another - what happens in the middle is what we call life."

-Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

Cover of The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro

26. The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

By: Alya Mooro

3.76

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation Beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation by Andrew Root

27. When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation Beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

By: Andrew Root

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more money, people, programs, innovati… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story by Paul Burston

28. We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story

By: Paul Burston

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn’t alwa… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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29. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

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30. Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers

By: Anneka Harry

2.89

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • unfinished
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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31. The Psychic Tests

By: Gary Nunn

3.56

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Award-winning journalist Gary Nunn investigates psychics, mediums and astrologers to understand the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Top audiobook books like Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Library

Oliver Tearle

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Dead of Winter

Stuart MacBride

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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16 must-read audiobook books like Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

Owen Jones

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

4.32

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