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Books like (Her)Oics

Explore 24 books like (Her)Oics by Joanell Serra — a handpicked selection united by Women Authors, Essays, Sociology, and Literary Collections.

Top related books to (Her)Oics

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of (Her)Oics.

What My Father and I Don’t Talk About Sixteen Writers Break the Silence

Michele Filgate

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

Horse Girls Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond

Halimah Marcus

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

Cassandra Speaks When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Elizabeth Lesser

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

I’ll Fly Away Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

Wally Lamb

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

Women and Writing

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

A Living Remedy A Memoir

Nicole Chung

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

The Second Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

#10

Unspeakable Acts True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

Sarah Weinman

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

#11

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Womanist Prose

Alice Walker

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

#12

He Never Came Home Interviews, Stories, and Essays from Daughters on Life Without Their Fathers

Regina R. Robertson

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

#13

Bon Courage Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship, and a Creative Life

Ru Freeman

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#14

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#15

You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#16

Living on COVID Time

Story Circle Network

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#17

Bard, Kinetic

Anne Waldman

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#18

Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Evette Dionne

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#19

Socialist Realism

Trisha Low

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#20

Hijas de América Latina una antología global

Sandra Guzman

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#21

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

Siri Hustvedt

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#22

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Limited Collector’s Edition] Essays

Roxane Gay

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Sociology

#23

Evidence of Things Seen True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Sarah Weinman

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

#24

We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for Inner Light in a Time of Darkness : Meditations

Alice Walker

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women Authors, Essays, Sociology — the same threads that run through (Her)Oics by Joanell Serra. Among the authors featured: Michele Filgate, Rebekah Taussig, Halimah Marcus, Elizabeth Lesser, and others.

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