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The Moment: Standing Up to Bill Cosby, Speaking Up for Women by Andrea Constand

The Moment: Standing Up to Bill Cosby, Speaking Up for Women

Andrea Constand

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

182 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative slow-paced
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Sam Quinones

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction health politics dark medium-paced
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Dan Levy, Eugene Levy

Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek

Dan Levy, Eugene Levy

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction art emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction autobiography politics informative reflective medium-paced
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

If You Tell

Gregg Olsen

428 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

282 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

6 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction feminism history race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

438 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0alyssamandy's review
nonfiction feminism gender science challenging informative reflective medium-paced