15 best-selling nonfiction books like Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrão

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Notes on Shapeshifting

By: Gabi Abrão

3.94

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Abrāo’s work has been described by The Outline as “an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts” th…

"A new crush enters like an angel."

-Gabi Abrão, Notes on Shapeshifting

"A new crush enters like an angel."

-Gabi Abrão, Notes on Shapeshifting

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrão , here is a list of 15 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 Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • 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. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

By: Leonard Koren

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describes the principles of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic associated with Japanese tea ceremonies… read more

Similar categories in Leonard Koren's Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Soul Life, #1)

By: Sanaya Roman

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

This step-by-step guide to making soul contact and awakening your heart centers was given to Sanaya… read more

Similar categories in Sanaya Roman's Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Soul Life, #1) book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

4. The Gift

By: Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions… read more

Similar categories in Hafez's The Gift book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
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6. Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.62

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

"It's a lonely life."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Nothing made me happy."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Be careful with women,"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

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7. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
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8. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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9. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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10. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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11. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

By: Mimi Zhu

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Radical and revolutionary.” —Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, Again A col… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Zhu's Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Anger, like numbness, is another sacred protector of our survival. It is a loving act to protect yourself, a loving at to resist harm, and a loving act to allow yourself the sacred breath of anger."

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past d…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"The excuses became an armor that pushed away he pain, but painful feelings do not relent even when faced with brute force. They linger in the ether and visit you, whether you are ready or not to conf…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

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13. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. Notes on Shapeshifting

By: Gabi Abrão

3.94

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Abrāo’s work has been described by The Outline as “an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts” th… read more

Similar categories in Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"A new crush enters like an angel."

-Gabi Abrão, Notes on Shapeshifting

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16. Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

By: Fariha Róisín

3.77

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Ró… read more

Similar categories in Fariha Róisín's Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Forgiveness is holding the multiplicity."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"The natural world meets me where humans cannot."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Herodotus knew to tell a story, you had to respect it first."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Nothing rings truer than blazing through the bright white streak of eucalyptus fire we decided to call life."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

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17. Scammer

By: Caroline Calloway

3.56

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir from noted scammer Caroline Calloway. read more

Similar categories in Caroline Calloway's Scammer book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
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18. Corazón

By: Yesika Salgado

4.38

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more

Similar categories in Yesika Salgado's Corazón book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry
"and if he loves you, what is next?"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

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19. Tesoro

By: Yesika Salgado

4.44

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It i… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

20. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Anderson's Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Porn Carnival

By: Rachel Rabbit White

3.98

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In Porn Carnival, the debut full-length collection by Rachel Rabbit White, hedonism and materialist… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Rabbit White's Porn Carnival book and Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting

  • poetry

5 Best self help books like Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrão

Transform Your Habits

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Soul Love: Awakening Your Heart Centers (Soul Life, #1)

Sanaya Roman

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Mimi Zhu

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Notes on Shapeshifting

Gabi Abrão

3.94

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5 Best classics books like The Gift by Hafez, Daniel Ladinsky

Transform Your Habits

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass)

Daniel Ladinsky

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Faces of Love

Hafez , Dick Davis , Jahan Malek Khatun , None

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Faust, Part Two

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , None

4.21

The Gift

Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

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