12 must-read self help books like For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder

Cover of For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder

For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

By: Steve Leder

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of The Beauty of What…

If you liked the self help plot in For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Short Guide to a Happy Life

By: Anna Quindlen

3.96

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side,  Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection o… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's A Short Guide to a Happy Life book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • personal development
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I a…"

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Cover of The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

2. The End of Your Life Book Club

By: Will Schwalbe

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • death
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The thing about Americans,"

-Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

"All readers have reading in common."

-Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

"everyone doesn’t have to do everything."

-Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

"I like books. I don't read them. But I like them."

-Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

Cover of Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life by Peter Walsh

3. Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

By: Peter Walsh

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful proce… read more

Similar categories in Peter Walsh's Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
Cover of Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live by Elaine St. James

4. Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live

By: Elaine St. James

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With more than two million copies of the Simplify series books in print--now there are two million … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. Books for Living

By: Will Schwalbe

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully enga… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's Books for Living book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

By: Jessica Seinfeld , Lisa Hubbard

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice

By: Brené Brown

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Audio CD

With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brene Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthpla… read more

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8. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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9. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
Cover of Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

10. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Brooks's Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • self help
  • personal development
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Cover of Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud by Becky Holmes

11. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

Similar categories in Becky Holmes's Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Double Lives

By: Mary Monroe

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of … read more

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"Life is a gift. You need to live."

-Mary Monroe, Double Lives

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13. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor

14. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

Similar categories in Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • self help
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

15. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • memoir
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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16. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

Similar categories in Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • self help
  • memoir
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Hamptons (Urban Renaissance) by Carl Weber

17. Black Hamptons (Urban Renaissance)

By: Carl Weber

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Now a NAACP-nominated Limited Series on BET! Hidden away near the end of Long Island, New York, is… read more

Similar categories in Carl Weber's Black Hamptons (Urban Renaissance) book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • audiobook
Cover of Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life by Matt Paxton

18. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life

By: Matt Paxton

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his … read more

Similar categories in Matt Paxton's Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles

19. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

By: Tiya Miles

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah Jenkins

20. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.03

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

Cover of The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need by Nancy Colier

21. The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need

By: Nancy Colier

3.42

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Do you worry about being likable (at all cost)? Are you tryi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris

22. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

Similar categories in Michele Norris's Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Cover of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank

23. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

By: Tanya Frank

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Frank's Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor by Amy Hollingsworth

24. The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

By: Amy Hollingsworth

4.19

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News once said of the American icon Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers was an or… read more

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  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"There is one thing that evil cannot stand, and that’s forgiveness."

-Amy Hollingsworth, The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

"Amy, this may sound like a cop-out, but I watch so little television,"

-Amy Hollingsworth, The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

"And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift."

-Amy Hollingsworth, The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

"If there’s anything that bothers me, it’s one person demeaning another. That really makes me mad!"

-Amy Hollingsworth, The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

Cover of Pottering: A Cure for Modern Life by Anna McGovern

25. Pottering: A Cure for Modern Life

By: Anna McGovern

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This little book is both a discussion and practical guide to one of the most British of pastimes - … read more

Similar categories in Anna McGovern's Pottering: A Cure for Modern Life book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder

26. For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

By: Steve Leder

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of The Beauty of What… read more

Similar categories in Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • writing
  • audiobook
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27. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • audiobook
Cover of I'm Keith Hernandez by Keith Hernandez

28. I'm Keith Hernandez

By: Keith Hernandez

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Legendary first baseman Keith Hernandez tells all in this gripping literary memoir and New York Tim… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles by Rivvy Neshama

29. Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles

By: Rivvy Neshama

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Winner of 5 national awards, “Recipes for a Sacred Life left us moved — and changed. Wise, poignant… read more

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  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Good day, be grateful. Bad day, be graceful. Be grateful, be graceful, and on it goes."

-Rivvy Neshama, Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles

"But what I hope is this: that you find a few [recipes] that will add to the wonder, love, and sacredness of your life. Those are the ones to follow. Those are the ones to keep."

-Rivvy Neshama, Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles

"Life is sacred—for everyone, not just monks and mystics. But to feel it and see it, there are things you can do, things that bring out the wonder and connectedness of everything in life. It begins wi…"

-Rivvy Neshama, Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles

Cover of Made for You by Jenna Satterthwaite

30. Made for You

By: Jenna Satterthwaite

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love… Synthetic woman Julia Walden was d… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Reversing Alzheimer's: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health by Heather Sandison

31. Reversing Alzheimer's: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health

By: Heather Sandison

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary and much-needed exploration of Alzheimer’s, how it is a complex disease that requir… read more

Similar categories in Heather Sandison's Reversing Alzheimer's: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health book and Steve Leder's For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

  • nonfiction

22 Best audiobook books like For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder

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Will Schwalbe

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

Peter Walsh

3.93

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Will Schwalbe

4.15

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

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How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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Ramani Durvasula

4.58

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