Books like Bad Feminist
12 books with a reading profile close to Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Intimations
by Zadie Smith
philosophy, memoir
Written during the early months of the 2020 pandemic, this collection consists of six essays that analyze the sudden contraction of physical space and the expansion of internal reflection.
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Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
memoir, literary
Theft by Finding gathers twenty-five years of David Sedaris's private diary entries, beginning with his early adulthood in North Carolina and ending as an established writer in London.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
philosophy, literary
Alain de Botton pairs six common human afflictions with the teachings of specific historical philosophers to demonstrate how logic applies to emotional pain.
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
philosophy, memoir
Donald Miller presents a collection of essays documenting his personal shift from structured, legalistic Christianity to a more organic faith.
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The Devil and Miss Prym
by Paulo Coelho, Amanda Hopkinson
philosophy, literary
A mysterious stranger enters the isolated village of Viscos carrying eleven bars of gold and a heavy question.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
by Annie Spence
memoir, literary
Libarian Annie Spence writes specific, direct letters to the physical books she has encountered throughout her career and personal life.
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Persepolis, Volume 1
memoir, literary
Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles her childhood in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
memoir, literary
In 1949, Helene Hanff, a struggling screenwriter in New York City, contacted Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop in London, to track down rare British literature.
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by John Green
philosophy, literary
John Green evaluates the current geological age through a series of personal essays that assign star ratings to facets of the human-dominated world.
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The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson
philosophy, memoir
This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
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Mortality
philosophy, memoir
Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
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The Pilgrimage
by Paulo Coelho
philosophy, memoir
Paulo Coelho narrates his 1987 trek across the Road to Santiago, a medieval route spanning Northern Spain.
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