7 Top nonfiction books like The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

Cover of The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th…

"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's Notes on ‘Camp’ book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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2. Africa's Tarnished Name

By: Chinua Achebe

4.40

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more

Similar categories in Chinua Achebe's Africa's Tarnished Name book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

Cover of The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

3. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • poetry
  • classics
  • race
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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4. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Dark Days book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

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5. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

By: Clarice Lispector

3.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
Cover of Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac

6. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kerouac's Piers of the Homeless Night book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • poetry
  • classics
  • essays
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

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7. The Gigolo

By: Françoise Sagan

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more

Similar categories in Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
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8. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Skeleton’s Holiday book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

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9. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

Similar categories in Kathy Acker's New York City in 1979 book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • feminism
  • classics
  • essays
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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10. The Finger

By: William S. Burroughs

3.31

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of bloo… read more

Similar categories in William S. Burroughs's The Finger book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
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11. The Distance of the Moon

By: Italo Calvino

3.86

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully… read more

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  • classics
"To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration."

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

"My return was sweet, my home refound, but my thoughts were filled only with grief at having lost her, and my eyes gazed at the Moon, for ever beyond my reach, as I sought her. And I saw her. She was …"

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

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12. The End

By: Samuel Beckett

3.19

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to… read more

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  • classics
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13. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • lgbt
Cover of Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

14. Death the Barber

By: William Carlos Williams

3.39

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Death the Barber book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • poetry
  • classics
Cover of Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada

15. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

By: Hans Fallada

3.51

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends … read more

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  • classics
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16. The Survivor

By: Primo Levi

3.74

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"What is the number of your days? I've counted them: Few and brief, and each one heavy with cares; With anguish about the inevitable night, When nothing saves you from yourself; With fear of the dawn …"

-Primo Levi, The Survivor

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17. The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)

By: Danilo Kiš

2.93

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in … read more

Similar categories in Danilo Kiš's The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern) book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
Cover of An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern) by Ryszard Kapuściński

18. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

3.61

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more

Similar categories in Ryszard Kapuściński's An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern) book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

19. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

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  • classics
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Four Russian Short Stories

By: Gaito Gazdanov

3.35

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more

Similar categories in Gaito Gazdanov's Four Russian Short Stories book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics
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21. Glittering City

By: Cyprian Ekwensi

3.15

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more

Similar categories in Cyprian Ekwensi's Glittering City book and Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

  • classics

21 Top classics books like The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

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Notes on ‘Camp’

Susan Sontag

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Africa's Tarnished Name

Chinua Achebe

4.40

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

4.55

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Dark Days

James Baldwin

4.40

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14 Top fiction books like Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

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The Garden of Forking Paths

George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

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Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

Transform Your Habits

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Yūko Tsushima

3.68

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Carson McCullers

3.92

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