Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life

10 best books like Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (bell hooks): Cane River, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Fledgling, The Wander Society, Black Mamba Boy, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Motherhood, Regarding the Pain of Others, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, Rapture

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...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941414

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...

Fledgling

Author	Octavia E. Butler
ISBN	0446696161

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her...

The Wander Society

Author	Keri Smith
ISBN	0143108360

wan·der
verb  \ˈwän-dər\
to walk/explore/amble in an unplanned or aimless way with a complete openness to the unknown
 
Several years ago when Keri Smith, bestselling author of Wreck This Journal, discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves...

Black Mamba Boy

Author	Nadifa Mohamed
ISBN	0007315740

For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world.

Aden, Yemen, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies...

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Author	Mark Vonnegut
ISBN	1583225439

The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy--and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy,...

Motherhood

Author	Sheila Heti
ISBN	1627790772

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children.

In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman...

Regarding the Pain of Others

Author	Susan Sontag
ISBN	0141012374

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by...

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Author	Laurie Penny
ISBN	1620406896

Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014

Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental...

Rapture

Author	Carol Ann Duffy
ISBN	0330433911

Falling in love
is glamorous hell, the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.

Another modern cycle-- sensing a theme in what I like here.

This follows the...

Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

Author	John McMillian
ISBN	0195319923

How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions...