8 must-read memoir books like Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer

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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

By: Kayleen Schaefer

3.46

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

From Girls to Parks and Recreation to Bridesmaids, the female friendship has taken an undeniable fr…

If you liked the memoir plot in Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

By: Paul Angone

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Every twenty-something needs a little black book of secrets. Our twenties are filled with confusion… read more

Similar categories in Paul Angone's 101 Secrets for Your Twenties book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

By: Rebecca Traister

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. In a pr… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Traister's All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook

3. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

By: Jacob Tomsky

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidentialand Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically i… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Tomsky's Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

4. Startup

By: Doree Shafrir

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that… read more

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5. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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6. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

By: Kayleen Schaefer

3.46

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

From Girls to Parks and Recreation to Bridesmaids, the female friendship has taken an undeniable fr… read more

Similar categories in Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • book club
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoir-in-essays about g… read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?"

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"No, but has the tyranny of facts ever stopped me before? Again, no."

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness."

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"What is more romantic than the sudden revelation of the thing you didn't even dare to hope for?"

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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9. A Zero Waste Life: In Thirty Days

By: Anita Vandyke

3.49

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Anita Vandyke wants to show you that by living a zero waste life, you actually gain more—more time,… read more

Similar categories in Anita Vandyke's A Zero Waste Life: In Thirty Days book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

By: Aminatou Sow

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can cont… read more

Similar categories in Aminatou Sow's Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I love that you've known every version of me. You were there at the beginning and I want you there at the end."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"When you are obsessed with your friend's brain, it's natural to crave ordered conversations and excuses to go deeper."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"It can be extremely hard to figure out the right amount of growth and sacrifice to be devoting to a friendship, because we're not taught that friends are worth stretching for at all. Your spouse? Def…"

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

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11. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

By: Emily Bernard

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Bernard's Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."

-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

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12. Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level

By: Laura Tremaine

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part guidebook, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. is the invitation you've been wait… read more

Similar categories in Laura Tremaine's Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
". . . sharing our stuff drags it out of the dark and into the light, and everything looks better in the light."

-Laura Tremaine, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level

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13. Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships

By: Danielle Bayard Jackson

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why do women's friendships feel complicated? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Bayard Jackson's Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

By: Gemma Hartley

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fe… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Hartley's Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

By: Kristen Howerton

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A smart, irreverent personal manifesto challenging the idea that there's a "right" way to raise kid… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Howerton's Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"If I had to sum up motherhood in one philosophical statement it would be this: They come out of the womb as narcissists, and you have eighteen years to try to change that. If, by the time they move o…"

-Kristen Howerton, Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

"When you decide to have kids, you must kill the illusion that you have any control over outcomes. It is a dangerous fantasy that will break your heart. When your life is intrinsically tied to other h…"

-Kristen Howerton, Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

"The truth is that contentment is an inside job. So is authenticity. Validation doesn't come from magazines, blogs, Facebook feeds, or even your best friends. It doesn't come from looking like you hav…"

-Kristen Howerton, Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

"Another unnerving aspect of the homestudy is the checklist you have to fill out to indicate what kind of child you are willing to accept. Will you take a child with a physical deformity? A medical co…"

-Kristen Howerton, Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

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16. Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

By: Mari Andrew

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Adulting meets Hyperbole and a Half in this witty, starkly honest, and absolutely on-point book of … read more

Similar categories in Mari Andrew's Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"What I love most about living isn't accomplishing things, but experiencing them."

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

"Spring is the promise of a solution to a problem (the problem being winter...) I believe we all kind of secretly expect that on March 21 of each year the cold clouds will part like silver drapes, unv…"

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

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17. Weird Black Girls

By: Elwin Cotman

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories th… read more

Similar categories in Elwin Cotman's Weird Black Girls book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • book club
"Alone without purpose, they fell asleep."

-Elwin Cotman, Weird Black Girls

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18. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

Similar categories in Evan Friss's The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mind Your Manners: How to Be Your Best Self in Any Situation by Sara Jane Ho

19. Mind Your Manners: How to Be Your Best Self in Any Situation

By: Sara Jane Ho

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Founder of a global etiquette school and star of her own Netflix series Sara Jane Ho teaches reader… read more

Similar categories in Sara Jane Ho's Mind Your Manners: How to Be Your Best Self in Any Situation book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
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20. Franqueza radical: Consigue lo que quieres diciendo lo que piensas

By: Kim Scott

3.78

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

This book is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all ill… read more

Similar categories in Kim Scott's Franqueza radical: Consigue lo que quieres diciendo lo que piensas book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal by Lux Alptraum

21. Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal

By: Lux Alptraum

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying -- w… read more

Similar categories in Lux Alptraum's Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal book and Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When women's truths are denied, they have no recourse but to turn to a socially acceptable fiction; when the only means to achieve their ends are laced with falsehood, women embrace that means becaus…"

-Lux Alptraum, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal

"Being perceived as beautiful primarily means being born in the right place, at the right time, with the type of features and body that happen to be currently celebrated as well as being willing to wo…"

-Lux Alptraum, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal

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Paul Angone

3.55

Transform Your Habits

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Rhaina Cohen

3.95

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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

Kayleen Schaefer

3.46

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3.76

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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

Eve Rodsky

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Soraya Chemaly

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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Minna Dubin

3.83

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