Non-fiction by female/non binary/transgender authors deserves some love

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18 participants (56 books)

Overview

So I am not at all used to reading non-fiction in my leisure time. I decided to maybe change that. Also, something I noticed: A lot of commonly perused non-fiction is by -surely good at their job- cis male authors. Therefore, the author would be a good consideration points.
I hope this challenge will nudge me- and maybe you- in a different direction. In honor of a brilliant musical the number of prompts will be 6.
You know, baby steps.

Note: All types and formats of books allowed: Novel, novella, audiobook etc.

Challenge Books

All books added
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz

297 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale #1

Margaret Atwood

324 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy by Rebecca Burgess

Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

Rebecca Burgess

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction business hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

148 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction sociology technology funny informative reflective fast-paced
Romance and Reality, by L.E.L. by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Romance and Reality, by L.E.L.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

346 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

informative slow-paced
L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron by Lucasta Miller

L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron

Lucasta Miller

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history poetry reflective slow-paced
More Than Two: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity by Andrea Zanin, Eve Rickert

More Than Two: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity

Andrea Zanin, Eve Rickert

471 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+
Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science by Erin Zimmerman

Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science

Erin Zimmerman

262 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson

461 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

Linda Sarsour

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced