7 best-selling biography books like A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir by Rebecca Schiller

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A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

By: Rebecca Schiller

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As propulsive as Brain on Fire and as poetically candid as The Collected Schizophrenias, one woman’…

"And all is well and beautiful as long as I keep moving. Why do I ever stop moving? Why did we stop moving, us nomads? What compelled us to settle down?"

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

"And all is well and beautiful as long as I keep moving. Why do I ever stop moving? Why did we stop moving, us nomads? What compelled us to settle down?"

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

"Sometimes I have all this energy, I'm unstoppable and I can do all these things at once, really fast, and then it keeps going, like a whirlwind and I can't stop it. Then other times I'm so muddled and I can't manage, so confused and angry and upset. I don't understand it."

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

"Sometimes I have all this energy, I'm unstoppable and I can do all these things at once, really fast, and then it keeps going, like a whirlwind and I can't stop it. Then other times I'm so muddled and I can't manage, so confused and angry and upset. I don't understand it."

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

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1. At Hawthorn Time

By: Melissa Harrison

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An exquisite and intimate novel about four people's lives and our changing relationship with nature… read more

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  • nature

2. Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World

By: Laura James

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that … read more

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3. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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4. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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5. The Electricity of Every Living Thing

By: Katherine May

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."

-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing

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6. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

By: Jonathan Meiburg

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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7. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)

By: Jessica Bull

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more

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8. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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9. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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10. But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

By: Paige Layle

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to … read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
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  • audiobook
"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"

-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

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11. A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

By: Rebecca Schiller

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As propulsive as Brain on Fire and as poetically candid as The Collected Schizophrenias, one woman’… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Schiller's A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir book and Rebecca Schiller's A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

  • nature
  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
"And all is well and beautiful as long as I keep moving. Why do I ever stop moving? Why did we stop moving, us nomads? What compelled us to settle down?"

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

"Sometimes I have all this energy, I'm unstoppable and I can do all these things at once, really fast, and then it keeps going, like a whirlwind and I can't stop it. Then other times I'm so muddled an…"

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

"The problem was me. If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and ho…"

-Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

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12. Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD

By: Jaclyn Paul

4.00

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

If there were an ADHD self-help book group, I’d nominate this book to be at the top of the reading … read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
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13. Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light

By: Matt Gaw

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
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14. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

By: Catrina Davies

4.23

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more

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  • memoir
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"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

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15. A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic

By: Alice Tarbuck

4.16

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, emerging shadowy, from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"Witchcraft is, I believe, the practice of entering into relation with the world, of exerting your will in it and among it, and learning how to work with it in ways that are fruitful for yourself and …"

-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic

"The magic is in the wild, and it is also inside us. We are the wilds, and we are the hearth. Come along, won't you? All the world is waiting, and you are waiting too, and there is so much joy, and po…"

-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic

"Magic isn't somewhere else. It isn't a series of distant rituals, ancient texts and expensive courses. Magic is turning to the world, and seeing it, and knowing we are indistinguishable from it, in a…"

-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic

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16. A Walk from the Wild Edge

By: Jake Tyler

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his l… read more

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"I pointed to a main road that, unbeknownst to us, had been running parallel to the valley the entire time. We were now at a place called ‘Whiteway’s Lodge’, next to a big roundabout that connects the…"

-Jake Tyler, A Walk from the Wild Edge

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17. How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

By: Jess Joy

4.25

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have b… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • self help
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18. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

By: Anita Sethi

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One woman's journey of reclamation through natural landscapes as she contemplates identity and woma… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature by Ben Goldsmith

19. God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

By: Ben Goldsmith

4.09

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY'An extraordinary book.' SUN… read more

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  • biography
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  • nature
Cover of Walks in the Wild: A Guide Through the Forest by Peter Wohlleben

20. Walks in the Wild: A Guide Through the Forest

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.69

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you tell the difference between wolf and dog prints?Which trees are best to shelter under a sto… read more

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  • nature
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21. Our Kind of Game

By: Johanna Copeland

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"A rager of a psychological mystery about toxic men, murderous women and the art of constructing f… read more

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14 best-selling audiobook books like A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir by Rebecca Schiller

Transform Your Habits

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Elise Downing

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Katherine May

3.62

Transform Your Habits

The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May

4.01

Transform Your Habits

A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

Jonathan Meiburg

4.18

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Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Transform Your Habits

I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

Emily Farris

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

Bianca Toeps

4.05

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