11 best-selling nonfiction books like Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

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Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Similar categories in Elif Batuman's The Idiot book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• feminism

"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• short stories
• audiobook

"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• feminism
• humor
• audiobook

"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays
• audiobook

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Similar categories in Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• humor
• audiobook

"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

Similar categories in Jenny Slate's Little Weirds book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• poetry
• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• humor
• biography memoir
• short stories
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• audiobook

"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Abbi Jacobson's I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff book and Jenny Slate's Little Weirds

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"Love revealed how covered up I was, but heartache broke me open."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"I thought about how pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my …"

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff