18 Best nonfiction books like Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement by Shelly Oria

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Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

By: Shelly Oria

4.36

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified t…

"But what is the word for what I experienced after? What is the word for how I awoke to fear and never went back to sleep?"

-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

"I do not conceptualize our current reality as a gender-war. The fight, it seems to me, is one where ethical people of all genders work together paving a path toward legal and institutional change.... telling our stories started this movement and remains at its core."

-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement by Shelly Oria , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. Play It As It Lays

By: Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • womens
  • american
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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3. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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4. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kay's No Matter the Wreckage book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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5. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Eve's Hollywood book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays

6. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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7. Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

By: Scarlett Curtis

4.01

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and … read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Curtis's Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"because Beyoncé"

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"No one gains when a culture exploits itself."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"She has a voice. If you can't hear it, maybe it's because you're too busy talking."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

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8. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

Similar categories in Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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9. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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11. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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12. Three Women

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.72

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Taddeo's Three Women book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

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13. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By: Jodi Kantor

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"

-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

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14. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • short stories
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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16. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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17. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

By: Lacy Crawford

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and … read more

Similar categories in Lacy Crawford's Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me."

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my head: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for …"

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my heard: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for…"

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

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18. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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19. Checkout 19

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

3.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more

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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

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20. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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21. Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

3.83

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboar… read more

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"Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on."

-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

"Hope can be a god as well. It's something that can be prayed to."

-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

"Everyone's always 'just joking,' right? Except when they're not."

-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

"Sometimes I don't know if the fight finds me or I find the fight. Especially with my family."

-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

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22. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York … read more

Similar categories in Judith Lewis Herman's Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal…"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

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23. Isaac and the Egg

By: Bobby Palmer

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more

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24. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more

Similar categories in Raphael Bob-Waksberg's Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • short stories
  • essays
"People outgrow me,"

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"I don’t even think about you,"

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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25. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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27. Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

4.70

Format: 384 pages, ebook

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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28. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories

By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

3.99

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more

Similar categories in Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi's Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • womens
  • short stories
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29. Animal

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Taddeo's Animal book and Shelly Oria's Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

  • feminism
  • womens
"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."

-Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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30. Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1)

By: T.J. Alexander

3.69

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition a… read more

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31. Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

By: Shelly Oria

4.36

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified t… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
"But what is the word for what I experienced after? What is the word for how I awoke to fear and never went back to sleep?"

-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

"I do not conceptualize our current reality as a gender-war. The fight, it seems to me, is one where ethical people of all genders work together paving a path toward legal and institutional change....…"

-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

11 Top womens books like Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement by Shelly Oria

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Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

3.83

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

Scarlett Curtis

4.01

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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

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16 Best audiobook books like Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

4.19

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