6 Top feminism books like Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women by Caroline Magennis

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Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

By: Caroline Magennis

4.02

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning …

If you liked the feminism plot in Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women by Caroline Magennis , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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2. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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3. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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4. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

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  • feminism
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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5. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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6. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

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  • feminism
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7. The Nigerwife

By: Vanessa Walters

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more

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"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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8. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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9. The Tidal Year

By: Freya Bromley

4.31

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her … read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

By: Abby Norman

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"

-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

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11. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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12. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

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13. Some Strange Music Draws Me In

By: Griffin Hansbury

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more

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14. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

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  • feminism
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15. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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16. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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17. Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

By: Nicole Louie

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Lives of Women Without Children tells the story of women who don't have children. Part memoir, … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women by Caroline Magennis

18. Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

By: Caroline Magennis

4.02

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Magennis's Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women book and Caroline Magennis's Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love Me!: One woman’s search for a different happy ever after by Marianne Power

19. Love Me!: One woman’s search for a different happy ever after

By: Marianne Power

4.27

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you be happy without a partnership at the centre of your life?Society still sets the gold stand… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Alter Ego

By: Helen Heckety

4.25

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

'Every now and then a book comes along that changes the way you see the world, and this is one of t… read more

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6 must-read nonfiction books like Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women by Caroline Magennis

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The Tidal Year

Freya Bromley

4.31

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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman

3.93

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Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

Nicole Louie

4.31

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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Butter

Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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Hanako Footman

4.38

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