15 must-read audiobook books like Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton

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Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.93

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashi…

"Our economic, cultural, and personal lives are suffused with the notion that we can and should transform ourselves into modern-day deities, simultaneously living works of art to be admired by others and ingeniously productive economic machines."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

If you liked the audiobook plot in Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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2. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Cover of Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

3. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

Similar categories in Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

4. 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

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

5. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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6. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

Similar categories in Brian Zahnd's The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew         Wilson

7. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Wilson's Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

8. 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

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
Cover of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age by Samuel James

9. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

By: Samuel James

4.44

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more

Similar categories in Samuel James's Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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10. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Watkin's Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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

11. 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

Similar categories in Jean M. Twenge's Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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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12. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

Similar categories in Alan Noble's On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Cover of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

14. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Lorenz's Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

15. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

Similar categories in Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • spirituality
Cover of Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton

17. Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.93

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashi… read more

Similar categories in Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • society
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our economic, cultural, and personal lives are suffused with the notion that we can and should transform ourselves into modern-day deities, simultaneously living works of art to be admired by others …"

-Tara Isabella Burton, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Cover of Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl R. Trueman

18. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.41

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more

Similar categories in Carl R. Trueman's Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found by Mike Cosper

19. Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found

By: Mike Cosper

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resou… read more

Similar categories in Mike Cosper's Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose

20. Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

By: Kevin Roose

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great lo… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Roose's Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
Cover of Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time by Marva J. Dawn

21. Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time

By: Marva J. Dawn

3.92

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Why do churches fight "worship wars"? Why do discussions about how to conduct worship often split i… read more

Similar categories in Marva J. Dawn's Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time book and Tara Isabella Burton's Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"...we are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel."

-Marva J. Dawn, Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time

"God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transforma…"

-Marva J. Dawn, Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time

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4.51

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