7 must-read psychology books like Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

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Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b…

If you liked the psychology plot in Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

1. 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 Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

2. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

4. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Cover of Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden

5. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

Similar categories in Julie McFadden's Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

6. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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8. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • death
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • memoir
  • health
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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10. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

Similar categories in Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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11. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Park's As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

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12. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • memoir
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon by Lyn Slater

13. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

By: Lyn Slater

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more

Similar categories in Lyn Slater's How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

14. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

15. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life by Robert Lufkin

16. Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life

By: Robert Lufkin

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Modern medicine is lying to you. Discover the true science behind chronic diseases—and implement an… read more

Similar categories in Robert Lufkin's Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

17. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

18. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Getting to Know Death: A Meditation by Gail Godwin

19. Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

By: Gail Godwin

3.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times -bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a considerat… read more

Similar categories in Gail Godwin's Getting to Know Death: A Meditation book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
Cover of This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan Townsend

20. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

Similar categories in Alan Townsend's This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging by Julia Hotz

21. The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging

By: Julia Hotz

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising s… read more

Similar categories in Julia Hotz's The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging book and Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health

19 Best audiobook books like Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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14 Best audiobook books like What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

Alua Arthur

4.26

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