This is why I'm so glad I picked up Steven Brust's Dragaera series when I was a kid. No explicit sex scenes, women are respected, and the one scene where a threat of sexual violence is very lightly implied, everyone else is disgusted by it. The world building misses nothing from not having breasts described in great detail.

Brust is getting near the end of the series now (began in the 80s and the early books still hold up) and the next book is coming out in April.

I've had better luck with books that have a specific purpose. Eg I quit drinking immediately after reading "This Naked Mind", I've kept my house decluttered since reading "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning".

On the other hand, I couldn't even finish "101 Essays that Change the Way You Think". Can't remember anything about "The Compassionate Mind".