8 best-selling essays books like The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun

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The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting

By: Alanna Okun

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. Peopl…

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1. How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.33

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

"Sit" = "Meditate." Clear, simple directions for anyone wanting to explore mindfulness meditation. … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Happiness isn't possible without freedom."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)

"There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)

"We sit as if we are sitting on a lotus flower, not on a heap of burning charcoal."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)

"Sit in order to sit. Stand in order to stand. There is no goal or aim in sitting."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials, #1)

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2. Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

By: Clara Parkes

3.83

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this insp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crafts
  • audiobook
"Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and ar…"

-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

"A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. .…"

-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

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3. The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

By: Clara Parkes

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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4. The Art of Memoir

By: Mary Karr

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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5. A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn

By: Clara Parkes

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Timesbestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, comes a new collection of essays and s… read more

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  • memoir
  • knitting
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crafts
  • audiobook

6. Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting and Healing

By: Lee Gant

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

In her inspiring book, Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting and Healing, master knitter, teach… read more

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7. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

By: Christopher Clark

3.35

Format: None pages,

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8. The Night Will Find Us

By: Matthew Lyons

3.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this supernatural thriller, six teenagers attempt to survive the horrors – both human and supern… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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10. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Alanna Okun's The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
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11. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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12. Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark

By: Ulla Thynell

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A deluxe volume of 16 traditional Nordic folk tales that is sure to impress any fan of cultural and… read more

Similar categories in Ulla Thynell's Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark book and Alanna Okun's The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

13. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crafts
  • audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

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14. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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15. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

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16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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17. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

By: Gabrielle Moss

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the '80s and '90… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

By: Mason Funk

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Meet the leaders and activists on the front lines of the LGBTQ movement, from the 1960’s to the pre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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20. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

By: Clara Parkes

4.19

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • nonfiction
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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21. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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22. Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting

By: Patty Lyons

4.61

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Do you wish your knitting was better and that you had an expert knitter by your side to help you wh… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • knitting
Cover of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

23. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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24. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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25. The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting

By: Alanna Okun

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. Peopl… read more

Similar categories in Alanna Okun's The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting book and Alanna Okun's The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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26. Nice Work, Nora November

By: Julia London

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After a near death experience, one woman creates her "reverse" bucket the things she wants to do a… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide by Brandi Cheyenne Harper

27. Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide

By: Brandi Cheyenne Harper

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From knitting expert Brandi Harper, a must-have pattern book for modern knitters, with essays on se… read more

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  • crafts
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • knitting
"Every stitch you knit can be a self-care practice. Knitting is our constant companion as we grow and expand our capacity for joy."

-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide

"You can own the title of adventurous beginner from day one of your knitting journey. You can be an experienced knitter for half your life and still be an adventurous beginner. This book will ask you …"

-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide

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28. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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