Women and Power: A Manifesto
Mary Beard
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A Room of One’s Own
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
All About Love: New Visions
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
American Savage: Insights, Slights and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love and Politics
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture – and What We Can Do about It
Bad Feminist: Essays
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Between the World and Me
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley
Brown Girl Dreaming
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Capital and Ideology
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions