8 must-read personal development books like All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffer

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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

By: Rainesford Stauffer

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of …

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1. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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2. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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3. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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4. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

By: Kate Kennedy

3.78

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

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5. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

By: Pooja Lakshmin

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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8. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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9. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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11. Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit

By: Julio Vincent Gambuto

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Atomic Habits meets The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in this life-changing guide to freeing your… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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12. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

By: Emily Ballesteros

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings … read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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13. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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14. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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17. Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

By: Satya Doyle Byock

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles… read more

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  • personal development
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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist by Lillian Stone

18. Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist

By: Lillian Stone

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody’s Favorite, a lau… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
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19. All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

By: Rainesford Stauffer

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of … read more

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  • personal development
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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  • business
  • leadership
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20. Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

By: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

3.63

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit N… read more

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  • audiobook

21 best-selling audiobook books like All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffer

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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31 Best audiobook books like Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

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