Smash the Patriarchy: Feminist Non-fiction

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,594 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,733 ratings
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers 4.09 avg rating — 6,115 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,216 ratings
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls 4.31 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
Women & Power: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 38,436 ratings
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All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,281 ratings
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Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood 4.37 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 4.17 avg rating — 62,836 ratings
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating — 86,817 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating — 22,350 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,452 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,703 ratings
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 4.08 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
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Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 7,741 ratings
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Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power
Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power 4.18 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Mother of All Questions
The Mother of All Questions 4.19 avg rating — 8,852 ratings
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Here We Are
Here We Are 4.05 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women
You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women 3.89 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life 3.78 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement 4.58 avg rating — 13,957 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,015 ratings
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women 4.14 avg rating — 6,270 ratings
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls 3.82 avg rating — 3,737 ratings
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90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality 4.03 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language 4.24 avg rating — 25,824 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial 4.06 avg rating — 21,523 ratings
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger 4.37 avg rating — 11,931 ratings
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Keep Marching: How to Take Action and Change Our World
Keep Marching: How to Take Action and Change Our World 4.15 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women 3.91 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,792 ratings
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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement 4.11 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
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Notes to Self
Notes to Self 4.10 avg rating — 19,937 ratings
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century 3.71 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
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All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership 4.15 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 4.02 avg rating — 6,461 ratings
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The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain 3.88 avg rating — 2,458 ratings
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club 3.66 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader
Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader 4.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls 4.21 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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The Witches Are Coming
The Witches Are Coming 4.10 avg rating — 26,051 ratings
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 4.36 avg rating — 27,092 ratings
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Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age 3.89 avg rating — 745 ratings
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For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
by: Liz Plank
4.28 avg rating — 7,282 ratings
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The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained 4.27 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger 4.34 avg rating — 10,375 ratings
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Everyday Sexism
Everyday Sexism 4.26 avg rating — 12,320 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 8,039 ratings
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women 4.20 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening 4.33 avg rating — 8,127 ratings
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Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All 4.29 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger 4.29 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings
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Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide 3.63 avg rating — 917 ratings
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White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by: Koa Beck
4.25 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 3.66 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story 4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings
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The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice 4.14 avg rating — 2,691 ratings
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 3.67 avg rating — 16,139 ratings
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Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
by: Zoe Quinn
4.09 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World 3.89 avg rating — 5,468 ratings
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The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 4.09 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead 4.29 avg rating — 3,753 ratings
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Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex
Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex 4.19 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems 4.62 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars 3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings
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Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating — 243,479 ratings
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness 3.87 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now
Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now 3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention 3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Mujer Insurgente
Mujer Insurgente 4.47 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women 3.84 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Boys whistle, girls sing: Sexism in children's books (Primary language ideabooks)
Boys whistle, girls sing: Sexism in children's books (Primary language ideabooks) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Missing Half The Story: Journalism As If Gender Matters
Missing Half The Story: Journalism As If Gender Matters 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment 3.98 avg rating — 180 ratings
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know 3.89 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop
Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop 3.86 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
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No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America
No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America 3.66 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Reinventing Love: How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations
Reinventing Love: How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations 4.04 avg rating — 5,456 ratings
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
by: Ellen Pao
4.12 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1 4.06 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done 3.99 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society 4.06 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain 3.84 avg rating — 23,540 ratings
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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope 4.41 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,178 ratings
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We're Going to Need More Wine
We're Going to Need More Wine 4.19 avg rating — 36,932 ratings
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Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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