Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
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1. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
By: Meghan Daum , Kate Christensen , Tim Kreider , Paul Lisicky , M.G. Lord , Rosemary Mahoney , Sigrid Nunez , Jeanne Safer , Lionel Shriver , Geoff Dyer , Danielle Henderson , None , Anna Holmes , Elliott Holt , Pam Houston , Michelle Huneven , Laura Kipnis
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Literary Luminaries On The Controversial Subject Of Being Childless By Choice, Collected In… read more
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- feminism
- parenting
- audiobook
"Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether."-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"A number of children kept coming over to the tennis courts, rattling on the gate, and trying to get in. The watching middle-class mums did nothing to restrain them. Eventually my friend yelled, “Go A…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"As a woman who chooses to be childless, I generally have just one problem: other adults. Living in a culture where women are assumed to prioritize motherhood above all else and where a woman's person…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contem…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
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- feminism
- womens
- parenting
3. The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
By: Sheila Heti , Misha Glouberman
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that… read more
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- canada
4. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- feminism
5. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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6. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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7. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- feminism
- parenting
- audiobook
8. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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- audiobook
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
11. V pasti pohlaví
By: Silvie Lauder
4.60
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Přes sto let hledá česká i celá západní společnost odpověď na takzvanou ženskou otázku. Těch otázek… read more
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- feminism
- audiobook
12. Rozložíš paměť
By: Marek Torčík
4.38
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ve 3.37 probudí hrdinu románu telefon a noční hovor s matkou rozčeří hladinu vzpomínek. Vrací ho do… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
14. Srdcovka
By: Štěpánka Jislová
4.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Nejrozsáhlejší dílo Štěpánky Jislové je příhodným vrcholem její desetileté kariéry a dvousetstránko… read more
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- feminism
15. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- parenting
- canada
- feminism
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- contemporary
- womens
- novels
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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
16. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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- audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
17. Srpny
By: Jakub Stanjura
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Kam až jsme schopni kvůli tomu druhému zajít? Daniela vyrůstá v rodině, kde ji místo lidí objíma… read more
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
18. Proč jsme tak naštvané?
By: Šárka Homfray
4.53
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Soubor čtyřiadvaceti trefných, vypointovaných a daty podložených esejů Proč jsme tak naštvané? odbo… read more
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- feminism
19. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
20. Těla
By: Klára Vlasáková
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Matky a dcery. Jejich těla, jejich pouto, jejich rozepře, jejich strachy. Ovdovělá šedesátnice Mari… read more
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- contemporary
21. Fuccboi
By: Sean Thor Conroe
3.07
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more
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- novels
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22. Počkej na moře
By: Veronika Opatřilová
4.41
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Mladý univerzitní student z Göteborgu přijíždí na ostrov Wight u břehů Anglie, aby tam strávil seme… read more
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- audiobook
23. Fosilie
By: Michal Kašpárek
4.02
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Tři generace, tři životní názory a postoje. Děda, otec, dcera. Děda, bývalý učitel tělocviku, vn… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. Vyhoření
By: Petr Šesták
3.81
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Text oscilující okolo osy pamflet—román—alegorie podává obžalobu fetišizace automobilu coby symbolu… read more
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- contemporary
25. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
26. Mladík / Událost
By: Annie Ernaux
4.47
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Kniha představuje dva texty nositelky Nobelovy ceny Annie Ernauxové. V Mladíkovi padesátiletá autor… read more
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- contemporary
27. Eva
By: Verena Keßler
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Verena Keßlers Roman über das Kinderkriegen und die Klimakatastrophe ist ein nuanciertes, warmherzi… read more
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- womens
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- contemporary
28. Hrdinové kapitalistické práce v Evropě
By: Saša Uhlová
4.37
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Hrdinové kapitalistické práce v Evropě jsou pokračováním úspěšného reportážního projektu Saši Uhlov… read more
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29. Vlastní pokoje
By: Jana Poncarová
4.35
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Kniha Jany Poncarové Vlastní pokoje přináší dvanáct rozhovorů s českými spisovatelkami, zastupující… read more
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30. Hella
By: Alena Machoninová
3.63
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Hella je literární prvotinou rusistky Aleny Machoninové. Její titul odkazuje na vlastní tematický z… read more
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31. Těžké duše
By: Iva Hadj Moussa
3.91
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Román o životních přešlapech, muzice a střetu boomerů s mladou generací Johanesovi táhne na pad… read more
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