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Bros & Prose Books

Bros & Prose Books is curated by Ella Dawson, a sex and culture critic who drinks too much Diet Coke. Browse Ella's favorite romance novels, nonfiction highlights about intimacy and relationships, and lots of feminist reads.

Ella's Romance Recs VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)
Funny You Should Ask
A Lady for a Duke
Marrying Winterborne
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
The Charm Offensive
The Viscount Made Me Do It
The Heiress Gets a Duke
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
An Unexpected Earl
The Heart Principle
Her Countess to Cherish
Bombshell: A Hell's Belles Novel
Spoiler Alert
Written in the Stars
Forbidden

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Sexuality, Relationships & Queerness VIEW LIST (26 BOOKS)
Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Overthinking about You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, Ocd, And/Or Depression
The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love (Revised)
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Whore of New York: A Confession
Difficult Women
Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire
Real Queer America: Lgbt Stories from Red States
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)

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Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Reading List VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
The Other Side
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
Crazy Love
Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People -- And Break Free
Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship: A Caretaker's Guide to Recovery, Empowerment, and Transformation
Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages
No Visible Bruises
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

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Feminism + Social Justice VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
My Body
Speak
Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
So You Want to Talk about Race
Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Girlhood
I Hate Men
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

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Anticipated Reads of 2022 VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)
Room and Board
A Lady for a Duke
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
Her Duchess to Desire
Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy--A Polyamory Memoir
Base Notes
Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

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Herpes VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of Stds
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Monsters (Special)
Damaged Goods?: Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The Good News about the Bad News: Herpes: Everything You Need to Know
Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism
Please Send Help
Shrill
Read Ella's Work VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
Coming Soon: Women's Orgasm Erotica
Big Book of Orgasms, Volume 2: 69 Sexy Stories
Erotic Teasers
Heart, Body, Soul: Erotica with character
Chemical [se]x
Ella's Favorite Books of 2021 VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
The Charm Offensive
Girlhood
The Viscount Made Me Do It
Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire
Whore of New York: A Confession
Neon Gods
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows: Feminine Pursuits
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional