Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
By: Rax King
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a…
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1. Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
By: Greg Grandin
4.03
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
A new account of America’s most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top se…"-Greg Grandin, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
2. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
4. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
5. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- cultural
- pop culture
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
6. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
7. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
8. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
9. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
By: Rax King
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more
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- cultural
- biography
- memoir
- pop culture
- humor
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
10. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"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
11. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
12. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
14. I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
By: Emily Nussbaum
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative colle… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- pop culture
- essays
"I'm its creature, the way we are all creatures of the art we care about, even if decide to throw it in a garbage can."-Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
15. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
16. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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- nonfiction
- pop culture
- audiobook
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
17. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- pop culture
- audiobook
18. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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- audiobook
19. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- cultural
- memoir
- pop culture
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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- pop culture
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
21. Midwest Futures
By: Phil Christman
3.98
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
A virtuoso book-length essay on Midwestern identity and the future of the region. Named a Commonwea… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
