Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America
By: Hilary Levey Friedman
3.76
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world.…
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1. The End of Normal
By: Stephanie Madoff Mack
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of the author that tells her idyllic wedding to Mark, Bernard Madoff's son, on Nantucket, … read more
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- nonfiction
2. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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5. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
By: Ayana Mathis
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Mig… read more
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6. You Should Have Left
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin
3.44
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more
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"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left
7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
8. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
9. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
10. 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
"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
11. 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
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
"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
12. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
13. The Five Wounds
By: Kirstin Valdez Quade
4.13
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Ama… read more
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"This is death, then: a brief spot of life on earth extinguished, a rippling point of energy swept clear."-Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds
"As Amadeo speaks the words along with the other men, he pities his old self, the self that once believed there was a single, big thing he could do to make up for all his failings. He missed the point…"-Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds
14. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
15. Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
By: Danielle J. Lindemann
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes."-Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
17. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
18. Whisper Network
By: Chandler Baker
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more
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"We have been programed to work with secrets."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
19. The School for Good Mothers
By: Jessamine Chan
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. In this taut and explosive d… read more
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"Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job."-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
"A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world."-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
"Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, al…"-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
20. The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives
By: Brian Moylan
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Brian Moylan, the writer of Vulture ’s legendary Real House… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It
By: Dave Quinn
3.92
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
For the first time in the ultimate reunion, the ladies of The Real Housewives dish on the iconic mo… read more
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- nonfiction
22. The Dinner List
By: Rebecca Serle
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge… read more
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"It never occurred to me that fate might not be forever."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"Consistent contentment rarely makes for good storytelling."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"We're so close to the previous minute; how hard would it be to just turn back the clock? To just quickly undo what has just been done?"-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
"That's the thing about life -- these moments that define us emerge out of nothing. A missed call. A trip down the stairs. A car accident. They happen in a moment, a breath."-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List
23. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. 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
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"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
25. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America
By: Amy Argetsinger
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“Argetsinger...is a true pageant enthusiast; she brings empathy and respect to the women who have f… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
27. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
28. 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
By: Allison Yarrow
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The close of the 20th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of t… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
29. The Lie About the Truck: Survivor, Reality TV, and the Endless Gaze
By: Sallie Tisdale
3.13
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
What is the truth? In a world of fake news and rampant conspiracy theories, the nature of truth… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America
By: Hilary Levey Friedman
3.76
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world.… read more
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- history
- social
- nonfiction
31. Miss Unlikely: From Farm Girl to Miss America (Paperback) – Religious and Inspirational Book for Women and Teens, Perfect Gift for Birthdays, Holidays, and More
By: Betty Cantrell Maxwell
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From a double-wide trailer on a farm in Georgia to the 2016 Miss America pageant, Betty Maxwell was… read more
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