Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

By
Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman
2021 • 224 pages

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114 books

Biographyandmemoir

MrsReads
Tanya
This Won't Hurt a Bit
The Tao of Martha
From the Corner of the Oval
Educated: A Memoir
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
The Beauty in Breaking
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

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439 books

Nonfiction

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Tanya
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Columbine
Bringing Up Bébé
Rip in Heaven
The Tao of Martha
The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
A History Of God

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107 books

Published 2021

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Tanya
The Last Graduate
God
My Body
Every Last Fear
The First Day of Spring
If I Disappear
The Anthropocene Reviewed

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489 books

Nonfiction

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Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
Brief History of Time
Mythology
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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64 books

Feminism

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But Some of Us are Brave
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Sexed Up
Identités Françaises: Banlieues, Féminités Et Universalisme
Know My Name
Afrofem
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

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99 books

Owned

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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Writing Life
Tam Lin
The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
Short Talks

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45 books

Did Not Finish

catchats
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Paper Towns
Night Film
We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced
I Am Still Alive
Forever, Interrupted
Dress Codes for Small Towns

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285 books

Brain

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
Marbles

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

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Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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Rep

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Solito
Storm of Steel
Wild Women and the Blues
Leaving Atlanta
We Hunt the Flame
Crying in H Mart
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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Retellings

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Medusa's Sisters
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
The Penelopiad
Circe
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Nobody's Princess

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58 books

Metalit

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The Swerve
Ella Minnow Pea
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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199 books

Adult Nonfiction

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Lost in Shangri-la
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Packing for Mars
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Hitch 22: A Memoir
Mortality
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Adult

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