5 Best psychology books like How to Fail by Elizabeth Day

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How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully…

"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bless her she's trying"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bless her she's trying"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

If you liked the psychology plot in How to Fail by Elizabeth Day , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. How to Be a Grown-Up

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

For fans of Bryony Gordon and Caitlin Moran, acomforting, witty, supportive book for real twenty-so… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's How to Be a Grown-Up book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • personal development
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

2. Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success

By: Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Al Switzler , David Maxfield

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the wo… read more

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3. Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

By: Gregory S. Works

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Don’t let family history set the course for your future. Triumph was strategically designed to help… read more

Similar categories in Gregory S. Works's Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
  • self help
"Choose joy."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"God has been there with us every step of the way."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

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4. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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5. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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6. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

By: Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more

Similar categories in Ronald M. Razmi's AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • nonfiction
"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

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7. 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 Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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8. 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 Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • 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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9. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
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10. 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 Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • 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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11. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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12. How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

By: Pandora Sykes

3.75

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Modern life is full of choices. We’re told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want… read more

Similar categories in Pandora Sykes's How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The woman that does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. Our desire for validation is far older than the internet."

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do."

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"In a world crowded with the white noise of other people's narratives -- the collective narrative of social media; the multi-strand narratives of binge TV -- having your own, singular, internal narrat…"

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

"It can’t be long before burnout is recognized by the NHS as a type of work-related stress. But we should be vary of using it as a non-specific term. Almost every single zeitgeisty buzz word or phrase…"

-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

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13. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • feminism
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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14. Ghosts

By: Dolly Alderton

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Ghosts book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • feminism
  • audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

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15. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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16. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • mental health
  • audiobook
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17. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

By: Bella Mackie

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's Jog On: How Running Saved My Life book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's How to Fail book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • personal development
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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19. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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20. The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

By: Nell Frizzell

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. … read more

Similar categories in Nell Frizzell's The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • self help
  • personal development
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Lucky: Learning to live again

By: Louise Thompson

4.39

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you learn to live again when you've danced with death?Louise’s road to having a baby was far… read more

Similar categories in Louise Thompson's Lucky: Learning to live again book and Elizabeth Day's How to Fail

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Conversations on Love

Natasha Lunn

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Good Material

Dolly Alderton

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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