5 Top personal development books like Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood by Satya Doyle Byock

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Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

By: Satya Doyle Byock

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles…

If you liked the personal development plot in Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood by Satya Doyle Byock , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • sociology
  • self help
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • audiobook
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • mental health
  • audiobook
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4. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Meltzer's Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

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5. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Lunn's Conversations on Love book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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6. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

Similar categories in Hua Hsu's Stay True book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • coming of age
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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8. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

Similar categories in Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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9. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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10. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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11. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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12. Everything I Know About Love

By: Dolly Alderton

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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13. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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14. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

By: Katherine Morgan Schafler

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Morgan Schafler's The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Energy management beats time management."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

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15. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

By: Meg Jay

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us that the twentysomething years don't matter. Some s… read more

Similar categories in Meg Jay's The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"I wish I'd been more.. I don't know... intentional."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better"

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

"The confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way."

-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

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16. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

By: Satya Doyle Byock

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles… read more

Similar categories in Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • coming of age
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age by Meg Jay

18. The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age

By: Meg Jay

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Defining Decade explains why the twenties are the most challenging time of life a… read more

Similar categories in Meg Jay's The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We might think we want to banish unknowns, but research shows if life goes as planned, it winds up being only satisfactory. For life to exceed our expectations, we have to venture into the unexpected."

-Meg Jay, The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age

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19. All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

By: Rainesford Stauffer

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of … read more

Similar categories in Rainesford Stauffer's All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel   Chandler

20. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

By: Daniel Chandler

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Chandler's Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • nonfiction
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21. Ugly: Why the World Became Beauty-Obsessed and How to Break Free

By: Anita Bhagwandas

4.12

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

We've all had those moments. The ones where you look in the mirror and nothing feels ok. For Anita … read more

Similar categories in Anita Bhagwandas's Ugly: Why the World Became Beauty-Obsessed and How to Break Free book and Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 Top audiobook books like Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood by Satya Doyle Byock

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Conversations on Love

Natasha Lunn

4.25

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21 best-selling audiobook books like All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffer

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

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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