Candy
By: Luke Davies
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her so…
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1. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
By: Ariel Levy
3.66
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig – the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" w… read more
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"You have to understand, a man is a man; it's doesn't matter what position he's in"-Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
"Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?"-Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
"A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality."-Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
"It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are infe…"-Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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3. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
By: Amy Dresner
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight , a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of … read more
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4. Loaded
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake.… read more
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5. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
3.34
Format: 320 pages,
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more
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- mental health
6. Candy
By: Luke Davies
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her so… read more
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- romance
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- fiction
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- drama
7. Prozac Nation
By: Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to li… read more
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- mental health
8. Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good
By: Beverly Donofrio
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beg… read more
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9. In My Skin: A Memoir
By: Kate Holden
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
Kate Holden is used to being summed up at a glance: arts graduate, history buff, middle-class daugh… read more
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10. Breath
By: Tim Winton
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more
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11. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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13. Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Trade Paperback
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more
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14. Go Ask Alice
By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more
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15. Praise
By: Andrew McGahan
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Bukowski-inspired first novel that made McGahan a cult bestseller Down Under, "Praise" is urgen… read more
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16. 1988
By: Andrew McGahan
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
An urgent generational novel by a talented Australian writer. When two frustrated artists take jobs… read more
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17. Wasting Talent
By: None
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
His music could have made Damien Cantwell the star of his generation. But living fast has its conse… read more
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18. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
By: Kerry Cohen
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
For everyone who was that girl. For everyone who knew that girl. For everyone who wondered who that… read more
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19. Smack
By: Melvin Burgess
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two teens fall in love with each other and heroin. Tar has reasons for running away from home that … read more
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20. Come
By: Rita Therese
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Rita Therese is a 25-year-old sex worker, artist and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She ente… read more
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21. Head Girl
By: Freya Daly Sadgrove
4.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
'The first time I read Freya’s work I thought . . . uh oh. And then I thought, you have got to be k… read more
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