5 best-selling biography books like Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays by R. Eric Thomas

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Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
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"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

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• memoir
• essays
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"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

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
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Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• humor
• biography memoir
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"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• humor
• lgbt
• queer

"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• lgbt
• queer

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
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"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Similar categories in Phaedra Patrick's The Little Italian Hotel book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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"She now knew that heartache could be loud or quiet. Sometimes it needed to make itself known to the world, and other varieties needed space and time to settle down on their own."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Little Italian Hotel

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Similar categories in Hillary L. McBride's Wisdom of Your Body book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Similar categories in Sarah Bessey's Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• memoir
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• humor
• lgbt

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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• biography
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• lgbt
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

"Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?"

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"No, but has the tyranny of facts ever stopped me before? Again, no."

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness."

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

"What is more romantic than the sudden revelation of the thing you didn't even dare to hope for?"

-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

Similar categories in Aisha Harris's Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

• race
• memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

Similar categories in Chanequa Walker-Barnes's Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves book and R. Eric Thomas's Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

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