12 best-selling memoir books like Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

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Similar categories in Kate Harding's Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Jessica Valenti's Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Men Who Hate Women book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• audiobook

"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• adult

"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• audiobook

"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• audiobook

"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• anthologies
• short stories
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens
• adult
• audiobook

"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• adult
• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• adult
• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Similar categories in Jessica Valenti's Sex Object: A Memoir book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens
• audiobook

"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elizabeth Comen's All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Similar categories in Lindy West's The Witches Are Coming book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens
• adult
• audiobook

"the soft violence of willful ignorance"

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"It costs you nothing to err on the side of "care"."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"[about a character in movie Little Nicky] A hilarious, hilarious sex criminal."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens
• audiobook

"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• short stories
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Know My Name book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• adult
• audiobook

"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

Similar categories in Lauren Muhlheim's When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Sohaila Abdulali's What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens
• audiobook

"No matter how much you heal, you can never be unraped, any more than you can be undead."

-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape

"We've created a narrative that says that either it didn't happen to you, or you deserved it."

-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape

"Human beings are complex, and one person may bounce back quickly from a crime that breaks another's spirit."

-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape

"Power corrupts everything that is already corrupt about rape: who is believed, who is accountable, who is punished, and why."

-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape

Similar categories in April Ajoy's Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith book and Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

• nonfiction
• memoir