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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEverything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
Meg Cabot, Megan McCafferty, Melissa Senate, Diana Peterfreund, Stephanie Lessing, Laura Ruby, Erica Orloff, Stacey Ballis, Julie Kenner, Kristin Harmel, Jennifer Coburn, Elise Juska, Kyra Davis, Beth Kendrick, Berta Platas, Lynda Curnyn, Kayla Perrin, Cara Lockwood, Alison Pace, Megan Crane, Lara D · 275 pages
Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, 24 notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from Tales
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood
Henriette Mantel · 228 pages
In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler · 386 pages
Offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from Bitch magazine's first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for this collection.
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman · 302 pages
Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers.
The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron · 576 pages
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Efren, America's funniest-- and most acute-- writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.-
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
John Brockman · 320 pages
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times
Amanda Hesser · 204 pages
"New York Times Magazine"--Food editor Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers. "Eat, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of the playwrights, novelists, and journalists featured in her column.
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Sari Botton · 269 pages
"Goodbye to All That is a collection of essays about loving and leaving the magical city of New York. Inspired by Joan Didion's well-loved essay by the same name, this anthology features the experiences of 28 women for whom the magic of the city has worn off-whether because of loneliness after many friends marry, have kids, and head to the suburbs; jadedness about their careers; or difficulty find
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Samuel Cohen · 544 pages
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is a compact, inexpensive collection of classic and contemporary essays, most of which have already proven popular in hundreds of classrooms and with thousands of students. Learning how to read good writing effectively is crucial to learning how to write and think critically -- and 50 Essays is full of exceptional prose and many opportunities to practice reading, th
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris · 288 pages
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whet
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages
I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty
Victoria Pepe, Rachel Holmes, Amy Annette, Martha Mosse, Alice Stride · 278 pages
Following the success of Fifty Shades of Feminism comes a collection by twenty-five girls and women under thirty. Here are some of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women including: Laura Bates (of Everyday Sexism), Emeli Sande (singer at the 2012 Olympics), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist), Yas Necarti (eighteen-year-old activist against Page 3), Meltem Avcil (campaigner for the en
Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 304 pages
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
Anne Fadiman · 272 pages
Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-Life Parenthood
Camille Peri, Kate Moses · 293 pages
The Best American Essays of the Century
Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan · 610 pages
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Clint Smith · 240 pages
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
Veronica Chambers · 249 pages
While many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a style perspective, none has fully explored what she means to our culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that, while offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. It is also a rollicking, lively conversation about race, class, marriage, creativity, womanhood and what it means to be American today.
The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom
Daniel Jones · 320 pages
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Alexandra Brodsky, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff · 359 pages
"In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinvents birth control, Sheila Bapat envisions an economy that values domestic work, a teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music, Katherine Cross rewrites the Constitution, an
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Phillip Lopate · 777 pages
The John McPhee Reader
John McPhee · 385 pages
In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are"; a decade later, he had published eleven others. This reader is comprised of selections from those first twelve books.