5 Best biography memoir books like We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends by Billy Baker

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We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

By: Billy Baker

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this comic adventure through the loneliness epidemic, a middle-aged everyman looks around one da…

"The social joys of making a meal with friends are known to all who have done so/"

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"Men need somewhere to go, something to do, and someone to talk to. [Dick McGowan]"

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"...the fundamental rule of male friendship [:] intent was the gesture, but activity was the glue."

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"...the only thing I know about women with absolute certainty is that they don't want a man telling them how they feel."

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

If you liked the biography memoir plot in We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends by Billy Baker , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

By: David Casarett

3.95

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction

2. A Few Right Thinking Men (Rowland Sinclair, #1)

By: Sulari Gentill

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

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3. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and Billy Baker's We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

By: Samuel James

4.44

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more

Similar categories in Samuel James's Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age book and Billy Baker's We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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6. The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

By: Nate Zinsser

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Believe and be unshakable. The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares th… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously."

-Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

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7. We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

By: Kat Vellos

3.90

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Have you recently moved to a new city and are struggling to make friends? Do you find yourself co… read more

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  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

By: Liz Plank

4.30

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For the Love of Men provides actionable steps for how … read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
"It reveals itself in the way we're more comfortable with the image of a boy playing with a toy gun rather than a boy playing with a toy doll, because we're more comfortable seeing a boy hold somethin…"

-Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

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9. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

By: Zena Hitz

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

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10. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

By: Sander van der Linden

4.03

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."

-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

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11. Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

By: Jamie Wheal

3.99

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A peak-performance expert maps out a revolutionary new practice—Hedonic Engineering—that combines t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • self help
"Left to our own devices, we regress under stress. Put simply, tribalism is destiny. Humanism is optional"

-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

"Cynicism is so deep on all sides that it's become incredibly tempting to conclude that the whole system needs to come down. To break this stalemate we might have to give up our search for common grou…"

-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

"Prometheans run a distinct risk of getting their matches confiscated by the priests, all in the name of public safety. All it would take is an attorney general with a prosecutor's distrust of the wei…"

-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

"It's entirely possible that the Great Sorting Hat at the End of Time won't give a damn which side we thought we were on - Rebel or stormtrooper, Red Pill or Blue - but only our intentions. Which flag…"

-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

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12. Early Sobrieties

By: Michael Deagler

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Deagler's Early Sobrieties book and Billy Baker's We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

14. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

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15. Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime

By: Julie Menanno

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Create a lasting and loving attachment with the help of the expert couple’s therapist behind the po… read more

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  • audiobook
  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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16. I Have Something to Tell You

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

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17. We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

By: Billy Baker

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this comic adventure through the loneliness epidemic, a middle-aged everyman looks around one da… read more

Similar categories in Billy Baker's We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends book and Billy Baker's We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

  • relationships
  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The social joys of making a meal with friends are known to all who have done so/"

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"Men need somewhere to go, something to do, and someone to talk to. [Dick McGowan]"

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"...the fundamental rule of male friendship [:] intent was the gesture, but activity was the glue."

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

"...the only thing I know about women with absolute certainty is that they don't want a man telling them how they feel."

-Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

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18. Before I Go

By: Brian Charles

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of Nicholas Sparks, Mitch Albom, Charles Martin, and Richard Paul Evans, Before I Go is at… read more

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19. To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Emily Halnon

4.59

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son

By: Michael Ian Black

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Raw, intimate, and true . . .  A Better Man  cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the con… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook

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