Angry Women in Rock: Volume One
10 best books like Angry Women in Rock: Volume One (Andrea Juno): The Water Dancer, Akin, Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, The White Album, The Glass Ocean, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope, How to Murder Your Life, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff, Conversations With the Fat Girl, How to be Famous
Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
Author | Emma Donoghue |
ISBN | 0316491993 |
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Author | Lisa Jervis |
ISBN | 0374113432 |
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms. Magazine, Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and...
Author | Joan Didion |
ISBN | 0374522219 |
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference,...
Author | Beatriz Williams |
ISBN | 0062642472 |
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
May 2013
Her...
Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Author | Karamo Brown |
ISBN | 1982111976 |
When Karamo Brown first auditioned for the casting directors of Netflix’s Queer Eye, he knew he wouldn’t win the role of culture expert by discussing art and theater. Instead he decided to redefine what ‘culture’ could — and should — mean for the show. He took a risk and declared, ‘I am...
Author | Cat Marnell |
ISBN | 0091957354 |
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication provided by her psychiatrist father. This led to a dependence on Xanax and other prescription drugs at boarding school, and...
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
Author | Abbi Jacobson |
ISBN | 1538713292 |
New York Times Bestseller
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When...
Conversations With the Fat Girl
Author | Liza Palmer |
ISBN | 0446693952 |
Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives except Maggie. At 26, she's still serving coffee at The Beanery Coffee House, while her friends are getting married, having babies, and having real careers. Even Olivia, Maggie's best friend from childhood, is getting married to the doctor with whom...
Author | Caitlin Moran |
ISBN | 1443448524 |
A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways."
You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It...