9 must-read adult books like Remember Love: Words for Tender Times by Cleo Wade

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Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

By: Cleo Wade

4.42

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk , hailed as “the poet of her generation…

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1. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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

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2. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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3. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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4. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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5. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • adult
  • audiobook
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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7. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith

3.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • self help
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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8. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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10. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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11. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more

Similar categories in Yung Pueblo's The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy) book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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12. Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

By: Cleo Wade

4.42

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk , hailed as “the poet of her generation… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • love
  • library science
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • adult
  • self help
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13. Good Grief

By: Brianna M. Pastor

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grief… read more

Similar categories in Brianna M. Pastor's Good Grief book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • mental health
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14. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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15. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Harmony

By: Whitney Hanson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of lo… read more

Similar categories in Whitney Hanson's Harmony book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"it is impossible to unlace my heartstrings from yours how do I untangle a connection authored by the stars?"

-Whitney Hanson, Harmony

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17. Someone Somewhere Maybe

By: Sophie Diener

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys a… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. This Day Is Dark

By: R.H. Sin

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

r.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion a… read more

Similar categories in R.H. Sin's This Day Is Dark book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • poetry
Cover of I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want by Pinky Cole

19. I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want

By: Pinky Cole

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your mo… read more

Similar categories in Pinky Cole's I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius by Liz Tran

20. The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius

By: Liz Tran

4.29

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Fulfill your innermost dreams and ambitions by turning up the volume on your intuition and re-conne… read more

Similar categories in Liz Tran's The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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21. Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love

By: Lily Womble

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lily Womble, dating coach and founder of "Date Brazen," flips patriarchal dating on its head and ch… read more

Similar categories in Lily Womble's Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love book and Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Top audiobook books like Remember Love: Words for Tender Times by Cleo Wade

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Expiration Dates

Rebecca Serle

3.65

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22 must-read nonfiction books like Good Grief by Brianna M. Pastor

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo

4.29

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Billy Chapata

4.14

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