Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution

7 best books like Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Alix Olson): Cane River, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Dear Committee Members, The Garden of Small Beginnings, The Dazzling Heights, The Towering Sky

Cane River

Author	Lalita Tademy
ISBN	0446678457

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned...

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Author

Rachel Louise Snyder

An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Author	Jodi Kantor
ISBN	0525560343

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement

For many years, reporters...

Dear Committee Members

Author	Julie Schumacher
ISBN	0385538138

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...

The Garden of Small Beginnings

Author	Abbi Waxman
ISBN	0399583580

Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss.

Give grief a chance ...

Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental...

The Dazzling Heights

Author	Katharine McGee
ISBN	0062418629

All that glitters is not gold.

New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets…

Leda is haunted by memories of what...

The Towering Sky

Author

Katharine McGee

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.

Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from...