Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
By: Tori Telfer
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten fe…
Want to Read $ 9.99"If you meet her, you will like her. The con woman's likability is the single most tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theatre mask. Without her likability, she would be nothing. If you like her—and you will like her—then her work will be so much easier. It'll all be over quickly. You'll hardly feel a thing."-Tori Telfer, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
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1. Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
By: Elizabeth Greenwood
4.22
Format: None pages,
Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of studen… read more
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2. Amanda Wakes Up
By: Alisyn Camerota
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
The Devil Wears Pradameets Primary Colorsin this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping y… read more
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3. The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
By: Tom Sancton
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Was the world s wealthiest woman Liliane Bettencourt heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar… read more
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4. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
By: Maria Konnikova
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds,… read more
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5. The Remains
By: Vincent Zandri
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
The Remains is a thrilling story of twin girls and a terrible attack. Vowing to keep it a secret th… read more
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6. Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
By: Tori Telfer
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten fe… read more
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"If you meet her, you will like her. The con woman's likability is the single most tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theatre mask. Without her likability, she would be nothing. If yo…"-Tori Telfer, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
7. 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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"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
8. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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9. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
10. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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11. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
By: Therese Oneill
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more
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"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
12. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more
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"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
13. She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women
By: Jennifer Wright
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleas… read more
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14. We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)
By: Tara Sim
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Frankenstein meets Indian mythology in this twisty, darkly atmospheric fantasy where the horror is … read more
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15. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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16. Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
By: Eleanor Herman
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"Another method to identify misogyny is to picture a well-known politician as belonging to the opposite sex and see where that takes you. For instance, imagine Donald Trump as a woman. Let's call her …"-Eleanor Herman, Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
17. Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher
By: Charlotte Bismuth
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic i… read more
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18. Slutever: Dispatches from a Sexually Autonomous Woman in a Post-Shame World
By: Karley Sciortino
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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19. Pulse: The Untold Story
By: Trevor Aaronson
4.09
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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20. A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
By: Blake Ellis
3.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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