8 best-selling true crime books like She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor

If you liked the true crime plot in She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Similar categories in The Boston Globe's Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• crime
• true crime
• audiobook

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Men Who Hate Women book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• feminism
• politics
• 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 Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• feminism
• politics
• 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 Beth Macy's Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The corporation feels no pain."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• nonfiction
• social justice
• crime
• audiobook

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• politics
• nonfiction
• crime
• audiobook

"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Similar categories in Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• feminism
• politics
• crime
• nonfiction
• journalism
• audiobook

"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Miriam Toews's Women Talking book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• feminism
• womens
• audiobook

"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• nonfiction
• 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 John Carreyrou's Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• nonfiction
• journalism
• crime
• audiobook

"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"

-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Similar categories in Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• true crime
• feminism
• politics
• crime
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• journalism
• audiobook

"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"

-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• history
• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• womens
• audiobook

Similar categories in Michelle Obama's The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Know My Name book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• true crime
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• audiobook

"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

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

-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 Prince Harry's Spare book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• nonfiction
• history
• audiobook

"It wasn’t that she felt no emotions. On the contrary, I always thought that Granny experienced all the normal human emotions. She just knew better than the rest of us mortals how to control them."

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I heard the story of what Pa allegedly said to Mummy the day of my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after deli…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I'd traveled the world from top to bottom, literally. I'd hopscotched the continents. I'd met hundreds of thousands of people, I'd crossed paths with a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet's…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy. We are primarily one thing, and then we're primarily another, and then another, and so on, until death- in succession. Each new identity assumes t…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

Similar categories in Samar Jazbik's Hlasy nezdolných žen book and Jodi Kantor's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

• nonfiction