14 best-selling nonfiction books like The Lonely Stories by Natalie Eve Garrett

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The Lonely Stories

By: Natalie Eve Garrett

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Lonely Stories by Natalie Eve Garrett , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Science of Money: How to Increase Your Income and Become Wealthy by Brian Tracy, Dan Strutzel

1. The Science of Money: How to Increase Your Income and Become Wealthy

By: Brian Tracy , Dan Strutzel

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The subject of “money” remains one of the most fascinating, thought provoking, emotional, polarizin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Tracy's The Science of Money: How to Increase Your Income and Become Wealthy book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. The Memory Box: a Book about Grief

By: Joanna Rowland , Thea Baker

4.40

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"I'm scared I'll forget you." From the perspective of a young child, Joanna Rowland artfully de… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Rowland's The Memory Box: a Book about Grief book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • self help
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3. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

By: Maya Angelou

4.23

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Maya Angelou's first poetry collection is vintage Angelou, full of love and rage, warmth and vitali… read more

Similar categories in Maya Angelou's Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

4. How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

By: Heather Havrilesky

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A collection of original, impassioned, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice co… read more

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5. The Invisible Leash: An Invisible String Story About the Loss of a Pet (The Invisible String, 3)

By: Patrice Karst

4.22

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the million-copy-bestselling picture book phenomenon The Invisible String comes … read more

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6. 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 Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • adult
  • contemporary
"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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7. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • self help
"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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8. 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 Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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9. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

By: Michele Filgate

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more

Similar categories in Michele Filgate's What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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10. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
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11. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • contemporary
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12. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

By: Athena Dixon

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more

Similar categories in Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • mental health
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13. Mimi Lemon

By: Cyntha Hariadi

4.23

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Bagi banyak orang, hidup bisa demikian panjang. Saat satu kegembiraan bukanlah sebuah akhir. Akan a… read more

Similar categories in Cyntha Hariadi's Mimi Lemon book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • short stories
Cover of Wanting: Women Writing About Desire by Margot Kahn

14. Wanting: Women Writing About Desire

By: Margot Kahn

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in w… read more

Similar categories in Margot Kahn's Wanting: Women Writing About Desire book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud … read more

Similar categories in Sophia Benoit's Well, This Is Exhausting book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
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16. The Lonely Stories

By: Natalie Eve Garrett

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • self help
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17. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

By: Tania De Rozario

4.18

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more

Similar categories in Tania De Rozario's Dinner on Monster Island: Essays book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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18. Get it Done Now!: Own Your Time, Take Back Your Life

By: Brian Tracy

3.81

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

While productivity and time management expert Brian Tracy has been writing bestselling books and gi… read more

Similar categories in Brian Tracy's Get it Done Now!: Own Your Time, Take Back Your Life book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. All Friends Are Necessary

By: Tomas Moniz

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this joyous, big-hearted novel, Tomas Moniz delivers a commanding new story about the power of f… read more

Similar categories in Tomas Moniz's All Friends Are Necessary book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • adult
  • contemporary
"Remember that. When you take care of something, you're really taking care of yourself."

-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary

"Hopefully, you found some happiness, some way to be in the world with people who welcomed you home, who would check in on you when things got bad, who challenged you because they cared."

-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary

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20. You’re Overthinking It: Find Lifelong Love By Being Your True Self

By: Sabrina Alexis Bendory

4.12

Format: 312 pages, Perfect Paperback

You’re Overthinking It: How to Find Lifelong Love by Being Your True Self is the ultimate guide to … read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Alexis Bendory's You’re Overthinking It: Find Lifelong Love By Being Your True Self book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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21. Let That Shit Go: A Journey to Forgiveness, Healing & Understanding Love

By: Bruna Nessif

3.85

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

'WTF am I doing wrong? Another relationship down the gutter. Why do I keep attracting the same pers… read more

Similar categories in Bruna Nessif's Let That Shit Go: A Journey to Forgiveness, Healing & Understanding Love book and Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health

6 must-read contemporary books like The Lonely Stories by Natalie Eve Garrett

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Dear Dolly

Dolly Alderton

3.83

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Arrangements in Blue

Amy Key

3.84

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The Double Life of Benson Yu

Kevin Chong

3.54

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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