12 must-read self help books like Mind & Body by The School of Life

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Mind & Body

By: The School of Life

3.76

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Mental exercises for physical wellbeing; physical exercises for mental wellbeing We are creature…

If you liked the self help plot in Mind & Body by The School of Life , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Pond

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more

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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

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2. 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

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • 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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3. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

By: Marina Abramović

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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4. The Pigeon

By: Patrick Süskind

3.71

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick… read more

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"من تعويض البطالة وحده لا يمكن للمرء أن يعيش."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"لم يكن يتخيل أن يحدث له في حياته أي شيء ذات أهمية ما عدا موته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"أراد أن يصرخ بجملة أنه لا يستطيع الحياة دون الناس الآخرين في وجه السكون، إلى هذا المدى بلغت حاجته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"كيف يمكن لهذا المرء الذي تجاوز الخمسين من عمره أن يبقى على قيد الحياة حتى الآن؟ بطريقة حياته المستهترة هذه."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

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5. Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

By: Alan W. Watts

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly grea… read more

Similar categories in Alan W. Watts's Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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6. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

By: Alice Miller , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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7. How to Worry Less About Money

By: John Armstrong

3.72

Format: 78 pages,

Dinheiro pode fazer voce feliz? Nossa relacao com dinheiro dura a vida inteira, mas livros sobre o … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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8. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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9. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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10. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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11. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more

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12. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials, #3)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third title in Parallax's Mindfulness Essentials Seriesof how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nha… read more

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13. The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more

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14. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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15. Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

By: Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Improve a… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Inchauspé's Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
"Fructose molecules glycate things 10 times as fast as glucose, generating much more damage. Again, this is another reason why spikes from sugary foods such as cookies (which contain fructose) make us…"

-Jessie Inchauspé, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

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16. Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Be kind to yourself."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

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17. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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18. Die Wut, die bleibt

By: Mareike Fallwickl

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Aufwühlend, wütend, hellsichtig: Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern… read more

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19. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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20. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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21. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

By: Claudia Hammond

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we fee… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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23. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

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24. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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25. The School of Life: An Emotional Education

By: Alain de Botton

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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27. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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28. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

By: Christiana Figueres

4.07

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more

Similar categories in Christiana Figueres's The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • nonfiction
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

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29. Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay

By: Liz Fosslien

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings and the wildly popular @LizandMollie Inst… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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30. dear oxbridge

By: Nele Pollatschek

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Insiderbericht aus den Elite-Universitäten Cambridge und Oxford und Liebesbrief an ein eigensinnige… read more

Similar categories in Nele Pollatschek's dear oxbridge book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • nonfiction
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31. Mind & Body

By: The School of Life

3.76

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Mental exercises for physical wellbeing; physical exercises for mental wellbeing We are creature… read more

Similar categories in The School of Life's Mind & Body book and The School of Life's Mind & Body

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help

9 Top philosophy books like Mind & Body by The School of Life

Transform Your Habits

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

Alan W. Watts

4.27

Transform Your Habits

How to Worry Less About Money

John Armstrong

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Notes on a Nervous Planet

Matt Haig

3.96

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15 Top nonfiction books like The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

Transform Your Habits

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

Steve Chandler

4.01

Transform Your Habits

This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

M.J. Ryan

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

Manoush Zomorodi

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Small Pleasures

The School of Life

4.12

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