17 Best nonfiction books like There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story by Pamela Druckerman

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There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

By: Pamela Druckerman

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bebe investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether h…

"Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

"Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

"Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

"There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren’t one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you’re sure that there are no grown -ups; that they’re mythological and don’t really exist. And then finally, maybe one day in your forties, you just are one."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

If you liked the nonfiction plot in There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story by Pamela Druckerman , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents about Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

By: Jo Piazza

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it. At age thirty-four, … read more

Similar categories in Jo Piazza's How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents about Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

2. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn

By: Donald Spoto

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace. Over the course of her extraordinary life an… read more

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3. Hedging His Bets (Honey and Fur, #1)

By: Celia Kyle

4.33

Format: None pages,

Honey loves running her bar and grill, catering to humans and shifters alike. But there are two thi… read more

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4. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • 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

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5. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

By: Emily Oster

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more

Similar categories in Emily Oster's Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"

-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

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6. There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

By: Pamela Druckerman

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bebe investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether h… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • self help
  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it."

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

"There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren’t one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you’re sure that there are no grown -ups; that they’re mythological and don’t really exist.…"

-Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

Cover of I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain by Emily Farris

7. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

By: Emily Farris

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell

8. The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

By: Cathy Yandell

3.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bringing up Bebe and French Toast , Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living We… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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9. French Kids Eat Everything

By: Karen Le Billon

3.93

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some… read more

Similar categories in Karen Le Billon's French Kids Eat Everything book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • nonfiction
  • france
  • parenting
  • memoir
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10. à Paris

By: Jeanne Damas

3.93

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

It-girl au demi-million de followers, Jeanne Damas est considérée comme l’incarnation de La Parisie… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Damas's à Paris book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • self help
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11. Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age

By: Chip Conley

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy “reminds us all t… read more

Similar categories in Chip Conley's Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide, 3) by Sarah Knight

12. You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide, 3)

By: Sarah Knight

3.62

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Knight's You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide, 3) book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • self help
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Doing your best can be exhausting enough without doing everyone else's best while you're at it."

-Sarah Knight, You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide, 3)

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13. Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

By: Meg-John Barker

4.08

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Challenging society's rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations t… read more

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • nonfiction
"Indigenous, Black, and Brown bodies are often non-consensually objectified, exoticized, and touched in public, especially, but not only, if presenting as feminine. It's as if bodies that "don't matte…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western domi…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends"…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access …"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

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14. Did I Say That Out Loud?: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them

By: Kristin van Ogtrop

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple , enjoy this hilarious and deeply insightful take on… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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15. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

By: Jennifer Block

4.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. One … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Block's Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • nonfiction
Cover of Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper

16. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

By: Simon Kuper

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English by Valerie Fridland

17. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

By: Valerie Fridland

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"Smart and funny--I loved it!" --Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Fridland's Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch

18. The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

By: Jonathan Rauch

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This book will change your life by showing you how life changes. Why does happiness get harder i… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

19. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

By: Jessica Waite

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Waite's The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards book and Pamela Druckerman's There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience

By: Rebecca Soffer

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Poignant, funny, and able to provide exercises that help you maneuver the rough . . . if I were go… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Voices in the Dark (Monsters of Ashwood #1)

By: Ariel Dawn

4.00

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

The voices are calling...can you hear them? Jenna Hellsing isn’t afraid of the dark…in fact, she… read more

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Pamela Druckerman

3.31

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Emily Farris

3.67

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3.40

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4.16

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Julie Sondra Decker

3.99

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Laura Kate Dale

4.11

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