9 must-read parenting books like Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

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Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac…

"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be labeled equity."

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

If you liked the parenting plot in Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times

By: Roy Peter Clark

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective shor… read more

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2. Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis

By: Nicholas Eberstadt

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before… read more

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3. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

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  • psychology
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  • education
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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4. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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6. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • society
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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7. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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8. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • parenting
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  • education
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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9. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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11. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • society
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  • audiobook
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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12. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • education
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Cover of Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

13. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

By: Jean M. Twenge

4.05

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more

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"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"

-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

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14. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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15. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

Cover of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer

16. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

By: Fredrik deBoer

3.84

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of… read more

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Cover of Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox

17. Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

By: Brad Wilcox

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox explains how our ruling class publicly disparages ma… read more

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Cover of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney

18. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

By: Timothy P. Carney

4.09

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the sa… read more

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Cover of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind by Melissa S. Kearney

19. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

3.88

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more

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Cover of BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity by Ruth Whippman

20. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity

By: Ruth Whippman

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more

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18 must-read audiobook books like Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

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19 must-read audiobook books like The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind by Melissa S. Kearney

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

4.45

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