11 must-read philosophy books like How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life

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How to Overcome Your Childhood

By: The School of Life

4.08

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned …

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1. How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

By: Sara Maitland

3.33

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

"Learn how to enjoy solitude and find happiness without others Our fast-paced society does not app… read more

Similar categories in Sara Maitland's How to Be Alone (The School of Life) book and The School of Life's How to Overcome Your Childhood

  • personal development
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Running alone can allow you to hit the mute button on the world... and take full advantage of exercise's stress-busting benefits. 'Running alone can be a meditative experience where you get to really…"

-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

"...The fear-and-projection strategy will turn round and bite back: you will be the sad, mad, bad person, and this can only make a difficult situation very much worse. Additionally, since - as you wil…"

-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

"This about it for a moment. It is truly very odd. We apparently believe that we own our own bodies as possessions and should be allowed to do with them more or less anything we choose, from euthanasi…"

-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

"Respect but do not fear your own fear. Do not let it come between you and something that might be deeply enjoyable. Remember it is quite normal to be a bit frightened of being alone. Most of us grew …"

-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

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2. How to Choose a Partner (The School of Life Book 13)

By: Susan Quilliam , The School of Life

3.83

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Choosing a romantic partner is one of contemporary life's biggest adventures. But other aspects of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The issue of fortuitous encounters brings us to an interesting double standard here. We may recoil in horror at the thought of haphazard chance determining our future life partner, but label that cha…"

-Susan Quilliam, How to Choose a Partner (The School of Life Book 13)

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3. How to Worry Less About Money

By: John Armstrong

3.72

Format: 78 pages,

Dinheiro pode fazer voce feliz? Nossa relacao com dinheiro dura a vida inteira, mas livros sobre o … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

By: Alain de Botton

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

5. Di Kaki Bukit Cibalak

By: Ahmad Tohari

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Perubahan yang mendasar mulai merambah desa Tanggir pada tahun 1970-an. Suara orang menumbuk padi h… read more

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6. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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7. How to Develop Emotional Health

By: Oliver James

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean … read more

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8. The Art of Travel

By: Alain de Botton

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Any Baedeker will tell us wherewe ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us howand why… read more

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9. The Course of Love

By: Alain de Botton

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this p… read more

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10. How to Think More About Sex

By: Alain de Botton

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Covering such topics as adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st… read more

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11. Orang-orang Proyek

By: Ahmad Tohari

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Aku insinyur. Aku tak bisa menguraikan dengan baik hubungan antara kejujuran dan kesungguhan dalam … read more

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12. The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting

By: Shefali Tsabary

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." --Oprah Winfrey New from the New York … read more

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13. How to Stay Sane

By: Philippa Perry

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone accepts the importance of physical health: isn't it just as important to aim for the menta… read more

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14. The World According to Physics

By: Jim Al-Khalili

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more

Similar categories in Jim Al-Khalili's The World According to Physics book and The School of Life's How to Overcome Your Childhood

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

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15. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

By: Nicole LePera

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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16. Táto izba sa nedá zjesť

By: Nicol Hochholczerová

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mladá autorka najprv niečo zažila, potom s obdivuhodným talentom písala. Tá izba sa nedala zjesť, t… read more

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17. The School of Life: An Emotional Education

By: Alain de Botton

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. The Last Goddess

By: Kateřina Tučková

4.02

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of bel… read more

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"Human faith in whatever, provided it is strong and unshakeable faith, is tremendously powerful."

-Kateřina Tučková, The Last Goddess

"Víš jak se jim uleví, když hned na prahu věří, že mám zvláštní moc? A čemu se vzájemně vyhneme s těmi, co by se přede mnou hlídali říct na plnou hubu, co mají za potíž? Říká se, že víra uzdravuje. A …"

-Kateřina Tučková, The Last Goddess

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19. The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich

By: David Bach

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , WALL STREET JOURNAL , AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover #… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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20. Bílá Voda

By: Kateřina Tučková

4.32

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

Dlouho očekávaný přelomový román o ženách, víře a zlu Bílá Voda. Takto poeticky se jmenuje pust… read more

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21. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
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22. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World

By: Sarah Wilson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and prec… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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24. How to Overcome Your Childhood

By: The School of Life

4.08

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned … read more

Similar categories in The School of Life's How to Overcome Your Childhood book and The School of Life's How to Overcome Your Childhood

  • art
  • parenting
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

By: David J. Nutt

4.43

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty year… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
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26. A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

By: Alain de Botton

4.04

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compas… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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27. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. Jouissance Club: Une cartographie du plaisir

By: Jüne Plã

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Vous avez l’impression de passer à côté de votre sexualité? Pas de panique, Jüne du compte Instr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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29. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

By: Kieran Setiya

3.56

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you … read more

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  • personal development
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The way in which you relate to the activities that matter most to you is by trying to complete them and so expel them from your life. Your days are devoted to ending, one by one, the activities that …"

-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

"In philosophers' terms, the shift in perspective is not temporal, but "epistemic": it has to do with knowledge. Emotionally, there is a fundamental difference between knowing that I will miss out on …"

-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

"When the demands of life are pressing, too urgent to be ignored, it would be a mistake to devote all day to contemplation, reading Wordsworth, or playing golf. Being mortal, think of mortal things. Y…"

-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

"We can escape the self-destructive cycle of pursuit, resolution, and renewal, of attainments archived or unachieved. The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have…"

-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

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30. Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork

By: Stuart Sandeman

4.09

Format: None pages, ebook

It’s time to get your breath back.Since tragic loss brought him to breathwork, Stuart Sandeman has … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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31. Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory (The Dreamstate Trilogy)

By: Jed McKenna

4.42

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of A Conspiracy Theory, is the ad… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

19 Best nonfiction books like How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life

Transform Your Habits

How to Be Alone (The School of Life)

Sara Maitland

3.33

Transform Your Habits

How to Choose a Partner (The School of Life Book 13)

Susan Quilliam , The School of Life

3.83

Transform Your Habits

How to Worry Less About Money

John Armstrong

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Alain de Botton

3.47

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16 Best audiobook books like Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

Transform Your Habits

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Transform Your Habits

How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

4.19

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