Recs if you like Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty...
nonfiction to enrage and educate
reading is political.
recs welcome!
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NPR’s Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.
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pop culture non-fiction
... or pop culture leaning.
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play 'what it means to be a girl' by Emeline
inspired by gestures at everything plus a recent song run that Tidal gave me: 🎶 Angry Too by Lola Blanc 🎶 FEMININE RAGE by PEGGY 🎶 LABOUR by Paris Palmoa 🎶 Right by Morgan St. Jean
suggestions welcome
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Women’s Stories👩🏻
non-fiction shining the light on women and women’s story’s and experiences
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Boy Moms Raising Feminist Men
It starts early
Formerly the Male Feminist Reader: These are the books we need men to read to be better husbands, fathers, and people
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Memoirs
Memoirs open and share the life of extraordinary people with us all. It's a privilege to read and know someone's story. Here are a few amazing, memorable memoirs.
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