Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b…
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1. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- health
- nonfiction
- self help
2. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
3. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
By: Becky Kennedy
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- psychology
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
4. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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- self help
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- parenting
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
9. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- psychology
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
10. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
12. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- mental health
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
13. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
14. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
16. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
17. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
18. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"[...] 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
19. Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
By: Minna Dubin
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can f… read more
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- parenting
- childrens
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- family
- audiobook
"4 Key Questions to Ask Your Rage: 1. Where does it hurt? 2. What are you afraid of? 3. What are you trying to protect? 4. What do you need?"-Minna Dubin, Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
20. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- audiobook
21. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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- health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- family
- science
23. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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- self help
- parenting
- health
- psychology
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
24. How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence
By: Sumner Brooks
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
With the wisdom of Intuitive Eating, a manifesto for parents to help them reject diet culture and r… read more
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- parenting
- childrens
- health
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
25. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
26. 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
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- mental health
- nonfiction
- science
27. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
28. 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
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
By: Devorah Heitner
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on helping kids navigate growing up in a world where nearly every moment of the… read more
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- childrens
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- family
- audiobook
30. The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
By: Chrissy King
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of m… read more
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- self help
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
By: Jessica Wilson MS RD
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
WE WILL REWRITE THE NARARTIVE OF BLACKNESS THAT CENTERS AND CELEBRATES OUR JOY. In It’s Always Bee… read more
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- audiobook
