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9 best books like Meatspace (Nikesh Shukla): Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them, In Our Mad and Furious City, How to Be Good, Death and the Penguin, The Gift of Rain, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Sweet Caress, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

Author

Scarlett Curtis

An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal understanding of the word.

Feminism has never been more deeply and widely embraced and...

In Our Mad and Furious City

Author	Guy Gunaratne
ISBN	1472250192

For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, and freedom, but now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan...

How to Be Good

Author	Nick Hornby
ISBN	3426615355

In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway....

Death and the Penguin

Author	Andrey Kurkov
ISBN	1860469450

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper...

The Gift of Rain

Author	Tan Twan Eng
ISBN	1905802056

Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love.

The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. Set during the tumult of World War II,...

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Author	Lucy Mangan
ISBN	0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...

Sweet Caress

Author	William Boyd
ISBN	1632863324

When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her...

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

Author	Jonathan Coe
ISBN	0670917389

Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition...

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Author	Bee Wilson
ISBN	0465064981

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables—or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?

In...