7 must-read self help books like Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

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Similar categories in Trevor Noah's Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"You didn’t know your dog was deaf?"

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Don't fight the system, mock the system"

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Relationships are built in the silences."

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Don't fight the system. Mock the system."

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's When Breath Becomes Air book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

Similar categories in None's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Similar categories in Catherine Gildiner's Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"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 Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Bruce D. Perry's What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• mental health
• adult
• audiobook

"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Glennon Doyle's Untamed book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• personal development
• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"We forgot how to know when we learned how to please."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Family is: Whether we're falling or flying, we're going to take care of each other through the whole damn ride."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Tara Westover's Educated book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• adult
• audiobook

"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Similar categories in Christie Tate's Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."

-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

Similar categories in Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• personal development
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• self help
• personal development
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"This is how you get unstuck. You reach."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"You get to define the terms of your life."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Be fearless enough to let love transform you."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over"

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Know My Name book and Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name