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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Of Boys and Men: Why Modern Men Struggle, Why It Matters, and How to

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time

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Pageboy: A Memoir

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Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good Business and Great for America

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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

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Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day

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Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass

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Poverty, by America

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Purity and Danger

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Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace,

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Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

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Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present

A Room of One’s Own

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

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

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