5 best-selling self help books like How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye Cleary

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How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

By: Skye Cleary

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern li…

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1. Kintu

By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4.11

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debu… read more

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"For knowing and refusing to know."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu

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2. The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity book and Skye Cleary's How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

By: Wallace J. Nichols , Celine Cousteau

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

This is your brain on water. There's something about water that attracts and fascinates us. No wond… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
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5. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir , James Kirkup

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Bea… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • philosophy
  • biography

6. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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7. Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

By: Arline T. Geronimus

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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8. De omwenteling

By: Suzanna Jansen

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Op een ochtend in 1981 hangt Betsy Jansen-Dingemans een laken buiten. Het is geen wasdag en het lak… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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9. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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10. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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11. On Women

By: Susan Sontag

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"

-Susan Sontag, On Women

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12. Hogere machten

By: Joost de Vries

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een socia… read more

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13. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By: Kerry Hudson

4.15

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

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14. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

By: John Kaag

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking w… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As it turns out, to ‘become who you are’ is not about finding a ‘who’ you have always been looking for. It is not about separating ‘you’ off from everything else. And it is not about existing as you …"

-John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

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15. Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

By: Clare Mac Cumhaill

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Ir… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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16. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

3.92

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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17. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman

4.29

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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19. How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

By: Skye Cleary

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern li… read more

Similar categories in Skye Cleary's How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment book and Skye Cleary's How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

  • self help
  • biography
  • feminism
  • gender
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. Vrouw en vrijheid

By: Jolande Withuis

3.62

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

Een fel betoog voor een kritischer feminisme en tegen identiteitsdenken ‘Feminisme betekent voor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful

By: Dean Rickles

3.15

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Why life’s shortness―more than anything else―is what makes it meaningful Death might seem to rende… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help

7 Top womens books like How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye Cleary

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Transform Your Habits

De omwenteling

Suzanna Jansen

4.25

Transform Your Habits

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Transform Your Habits

On Women

Susan Sontag

3.61

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20 Top audiobook books like Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

4.07

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