11 best-selling nonfiction books like Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal

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Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

By: Lynne Segal

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and sol…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism book and Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

By: Rosalind Miles

3.68

Format: None pages,

Men dominate history because they write it. Women's vital part in the shaping of the world has been… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction

3. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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4. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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5. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

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"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

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6. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • politics
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9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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10. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
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12. Catch the Rabbit

By: Lana Bastašić

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more

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"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

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13. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation book and Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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14. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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15. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Faraway the Southern Sky

By: Joseph Andras

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underg… read more

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  • politics
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17. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions) book and Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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19. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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20. Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

By: Lynne Segal

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and sol… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care book and Lynne Segal's Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • activism
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21. If Only

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking but timeless early work from one of the world's most heralded novelists A relat… read more

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bell hooks

3.91

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3.68

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4.22

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4.34

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