Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
By: Leigh Goodmark
4.66
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender…
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1. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Linh Duong
4.13
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
A warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging, infused with humour, from the bestselling… read more
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"Writing is a journey."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Time is something we don't have."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Nobody tells anybody everything."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Life wasn't always about deserve."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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3. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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6. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
7. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
8. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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9. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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- womens
- feminism
- nonfiction
10. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
11. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
13. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
14. The Body in Question
By: Jill Ciment
3.59
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sov… read more
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15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
17. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
19. The Art of Catching Feelings
By: Alicia Thompson
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for. … read more
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20. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
21. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
By: Danielle Sered
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
22. No More Police: A Case for Abolition
By: Mariame Kaba
4.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
23. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
24. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
25. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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26. Lesbian Love Story
By: Amelia Possanza
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothi…"-Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story
27. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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- womens
- politics
- nonfiction
- feminism
28. The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
By: Aya Gruber
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commen… read more
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- womens
- politics
- nonfiction
- feminism
29. Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
By: Leigh Goodmark
4.66
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender… read more
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- womens
- politics
- nonfiction
- feminism
30. 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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- womens
- politics
- nonfiction
- feminism
31. Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care
By: Mimi E. Kim
4.72
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition an… read more
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- nonfiction
