Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
By: Marianne Eloise
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder Obsessive was, sti…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the memoir plot in Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking by Marianne Eloise , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Clancy Martin's How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
2. Lucky Dogs
By: Helen Schulman
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devast… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Helen Schulman's Lucky Dogs book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- audiobook
3. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
- audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
4. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
5. Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By: Chelsea Conaboy
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Chelsea Conaboy's Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. Sometimes Therapy is Awkward
By: Nicole Arzt
3.90
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. In i… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nicole Arzt's Sometimes Therapy is Awkward book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Keedie
By: Elle McNicoll
4.69
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- autistic spectrum disorder
- mental health
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
8. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
9. Three Japanese Short Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.28
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Three Japanese Short Stories book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
10. Twelve Words for Moss
By: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
3.75
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible lig… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's Twelve Words for Moss book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
By: Emma Dabiri
4.06
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Emma Dabiri's Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
12. Jungle House
By: Julianne Pachico
4.02
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Lena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundin… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Julianne Pachico's Jungle House book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
13. I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
By: Sarah Kurchak
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a wri… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sarah Kurchak's I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The people who are trying to be on our side have reduced us to a mere calculation"-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
"I am still, ten years later, very much a work in progress. But at least I know what I am working on now."-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
"It's not like, as the term "masking" seems to evoke, there's a superficial layer of actions and appearances that I can remove and instantly improve my life. I don't have a mask I can remove; I have a…"-Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
14. Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being
By: Niamh Garvey
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism' It is a myth that autistic ch… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Niamh Garvey's Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
Want to Read $ 11.49Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
17. Eyes Guts Throat Bones
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Moïra Fowley-Doyle's Eyes Guts Throat Bones book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
18. Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
By: Sarah Bargiela
3.82
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overl… read more
Want to Read $ 17.97Similar categories in Sarah Bargiela's Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
19. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
By: Lily Bailey
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Lily Bailey's Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
20. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
Want to Read $ 14.75Similar categories in Clara Törnvall's Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
21. The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us
By: Chimene Suleyman
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Chimene Suleyman's The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
22. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
23. Supplication
By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul
2.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nour Abi-Nakhoul's Supplication book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
- audiobook
24. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
By: Darcy Lockman
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more
Want to Read $ 13.78Similar categories in Darcy Lockman's All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Joan Williams at the Center for WorkLife Law said "My strongest advice to young women: Don't just try to find a man who's supportive of women. That's a threshold. But consider, what is his attitude t…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
25. A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
By: Alice Tarbuck
4.16
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, emerging shadowy, from t… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Alice Tarbuck's A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Witchcraft is, I believe, the practice of entering into relation with the world, of exerting your will in it and among it, and learning how to work with it in ways that are fruitful for yourself and …"-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
"The magic is in the wild, and it is also inside us. We are the wilds, and we are the hearth. Come along, won't you? All the world is waiting, and you are waiting too, and there is so much joy, and po…"-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
"Magic isn't somewhere else. It isn't a series of distant rituals, ancient texts and expensive courses. Magic is turning to the world, and seeing it, and knowing we are indistinguishable from it, in a…"-Alice Tarbuck, A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
26. Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
By: Marianne Eloise
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder Obsessive was, sti… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- self help
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
27. Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
By: Philippa Snow
4.38
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainme… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Philippa Snow's Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- essays
28. Poor Little Sick Girls
By: Ione Gamble
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk, and it's all the patriarchy… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Ione Gamble's Poor Little Sick Girls book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- mental health
29. Sluts: Anthology
By: Michelle Tea
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
What it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture, edited by cult-favorite … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Sluts: Anthology book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
- nonfiction
- essays
30. Rewitched
By: Lucy Jane Wood
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Lucy Jane Wood's Rewitched book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- adult
31. Slugs: A Manifesto
By: Abi Palmer
4.29
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving to… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Abi Palmer's Slugs: A Manifesto book and Marianne Eloise's Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
- nonfiction
