14 Best self help books like You Are Not a Before Picture by Alex Light

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You Are Not a Before Picture

By: Alex Light

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace …

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1. Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

We've been convinced that happiness is something that only comes once we hit that goal weight, get … read more

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2. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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3. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

Similar categories in Malorie Blackman's Just Sayin': My Life In Words book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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4. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • adult
  • audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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5. The Audacity

By: Katherine Ryan

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ryan's The Audacity book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • adult
  • audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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7. Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life

By: Hayley Morris

3.97

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Brain: We left the oven on! Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this! Brain: The house i… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Morris's Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Mad Woman

By: Bryony Gordon

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years o… read more

Similar categories in Bryony Gordon's Mad Woman book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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9. More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

4.25

Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition

MORE CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY-SOMETHING F##K The laugh-out-loud sequel to the runaway bestseller of … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Potter's More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • audiobook
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10. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's The Second Chance Store book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • mental health
  • audiobook
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11. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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12. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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13. You Are Not a Before Picture

By: Alex Light

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace … read more

Similar categories in Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • feminism
  • gender
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

By: Bella Mackie

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's Jog On: How Running Saved My Life book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Diet Starts Monday: Ditch the Scales, Reclaim Your Body and Live Life to the Full

By: Laura Adlington

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Diet Starts Monday is a no-BS guide to body acceptance in a looks-obsessed world. Plus-size TV pers… read more

Similar categories in Laura Adlington's Diet Starts Monday: Ditch the Scales, Reclaim Your Body and Live Life to the Full book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
Cover of The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison

16. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being

By: Christy Harrison

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more

Similar categories in Christy Harrison's The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • health
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Bad Influence: Reflections On a Life Lived Online

By: Oenone Forbat

3.80

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

' An ideal summer read ' EVENING STANDARD 'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever yo… read more

Similar categories in Oenone Forbat's Bad Influence: Reflections On a Life Lived Online book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Food Isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap by Joshua Wolrich

18. Food Isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap

By: Joshua Wolrich

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Losing weight is not your life's purpose.Do carbs make you fat?Could the keto diet cure mental heal… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Wolrich's Food Isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • audiobook
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

By: Maya Goodfellow

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics. While refugees risked th… read more

Similar categories in Maya Goodfellow's Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
Cover of Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation by Hilary Kinavey

20. Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation

By: Hilary Kinavey

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have y… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Kinavey's Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Lucky: Learning to live again

By: Louise Thompson

4.39

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you learn to live again when you've danced with death?Louise’s road to having a baby was far… read more

Similar categories in Louise Thompson's Lucky: Learning to live again book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen

22. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

By: Sofie Hagen

4.24

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • health
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We constantly have to reach an impossible standard in order to just be taken a little bit seriously, and you can't help but wonder if it's all a trick. If we are meant to be too busy applying lipstic…"

-Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

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23. Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food

By: Laura Thomas

4.06

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Just Eat It isn't just a book. It's part of a movement to give women power and control over our bod… read more

Similar categories in Laura Thomas's Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • health
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them by Lalalaletmeexplain

24. Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them

By: Lalalaletmeexplain

4.31

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Have you ever been on a disastrous date and vowed never to use apps again?Are you blaming yourself … read more

Similar categories in Lalalaletmeexplain's Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tinder Translator: An AZ of Modern Misogyny by Aileen Barratt

25. Tinder Translator: An AZ of Modern Misogyny

By: Aileen Barratt

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tinder Translator is your hilarious and empowering feminist companion to the world of online dating… read more

Similar categories in Aileen Barratt's Tinder Translator: An AZ of Modern Misogyny book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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26. Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women

By: Louise Minchin

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

'Incredibly moving and inspiring' Gabby Logan ‘Prepare to be blown away… the most incredible examp… read more

Similar categories in Louise Minchin's Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them by Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

27. The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

By: Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Cohen-Hatton's The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Women have a unique lose-lose position where they are either respected but rejected, or accepted but not respected. What a choice."

-Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

"Women cannot be left to bear the burden of calling out inequality simply because they're the ones experiencing it the most acutely."

-Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

"By denying women the opportunity to fail in the same way afforded to men, by raising the stakes for half of society so significantly, we have yet another socially constructed systemic barrier to wome…"

-Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

"Too many women are smeared just for occupying their [male] space. Particularly those whose space involves holding power. For women who venture into governance, the spreading of fake news and disinfor…"

-Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

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28. Live Well Every Day: Your plan for a happy body and mind

By: Alex George

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The ultimate handbook for everyday health WHAT CAN YOU CHANGE TODAY, AND NOT PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORRO… read more

Similar categories in Alex George's Live Well Every Day: Your plan for a happy body and mind book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
Cover of Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful by Fearne Cotton

29. Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful

By: Fearne Cotton

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

How to make small changes to feel better, even when under stress.Stress is a normal part of life, b… read more

Similar categories in Fearne Cotton's Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • nonfiction
Cover of Will I Ever Have Sex Again? by Sofie Hagen

30. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Mind Manual: Mental Fitness Tools for Everyone (Dr Alex George)

By: Alex George

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Mental health matters! Learn how to assess your mental health today - a… read more

Similar categories in Alex George's The Mind Manual: Mental Fitness Tools for Everyone (Dr Alex George) book and Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health

8 Best adult books like You Are Not a Before Picture by Alex Light

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

How to Kill Your Family

Bella Mackie

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Cat Lady

Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life

Hayley Morris

3.97

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them by Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Over Sharing

Jane Fallon

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

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