The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life
By: Elizabeth Segran
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Defining Decade for the #Adulting generation—a book that blends storytelling and data to unpack…
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1. Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
By: Bo Burnham , Chance Bone
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one … read more
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- nonfiction
"I put a chameleon on a red dildo... He blushed"-Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
"Mmmmmm I like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it"-Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
"Forever and An Instant met up one day, Had a short, but lovely talk, then each went on it's way."-Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
"Forever and an Instant Forever and an instant met up one day, had a short but lovely talk, then each went on its way."-Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
2. Queer: A Graphic History
By: Meg-John Barker , None , Jules Scheele
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer th… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
By: Bronnie Ware
4.25
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
After too many years of unfulfilling work, "Bronnie Ware" began searching for a job with heart. Des… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
4. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
By: Kristin Newman
3.81
Format: 225 pages,
A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristi… read more
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- nonfiction
5. So Sad Today: Personal Essays
By: Melissa Broder
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Communion: The Female Search for Love
By: bell hooks
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more
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7. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
8. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love
By: Amir Levine , None
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levi… read more
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9. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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- nonfiction
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
10. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
By: Tori Dunlap
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- self help
"Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism."-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"…the culture [had]…a manipulative but disingenuous 'we're not coworkers, we're family' mind-set. (Always be wary of a company that says seemingly well-meaning shit as this. We share a cubicle, not a …"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"But when you confuse shames emotional alarm (I feel disconnected from money, what do I want to do about that?) with who you are (I’ll never get my shit together, I’m just bad with money), you’ve been…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financ…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
11. This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
By: Sarah E. Hill
4.06
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control shou… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Although the science is still new and there is a lot to be learned, it is unacceptable for you to stay in the dark any longer. We know too much for you to know so little."-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"Despite the newness of the science and tentativeness of the conclusions that can currently be drawn, changing women's hormones changes women. And this is a big deal. Although we don't yet know that t…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"It should come as absolutely no surprise that research has ignored women for so long because the establishment: the journal publishers, the reviewers and the funding agencies has rewarded it. Althoug…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
"For a long time being female was treated by science and medicine as being akin to having a serious psychological disorder. Women were routinely prescribed hysterectomies or anxiolytics like valium to…"-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
12. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- nonfiction
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
13. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
By: Kelly McDaniel
4.15
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
14. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By: Lulu Miller
4.16
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more
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- nonfiction
"There is grandeur in this view,"-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
15. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
16. Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
By: Tara Schuster
3.89
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Life is not a series of crises to be endured. Life is to be enjoyed."-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"The thing about moving," he said, "is it's a good way to shake loose whatever old baggage you have, or the old things that were true about yourself, and decide what you want to be true about yourself…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, bu…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
17. Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
By: Elizabeth Willard Thames
3.75
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The deeply personal story of why award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the rights to a fragmented community of like-minded consumers. Our unifying activity as a…"-Elizabeth Willard Thames, Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
18. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
19. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
20. 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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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
21. You Deserve Good Gelato (Dk Eyewitness)
By: Kacie Rose
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly hones… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
22. Happy People Are Annoying
By: Josh Peck
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer,… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
23. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
By: Meg Jay
4.11
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us that the twentysomething years don't matter. Some s… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
- self help
"I wish I'd been more.. I don't know... intentional."-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
"I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future."-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
"Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better"-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
"The confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way."-Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
24. Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
By: Jen Winston
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more
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- nonfiction
"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
25. 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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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
26. I Didn't Know I Needed This The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Y
By: Eli Rallo
3.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on moder… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
27. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
By: Aminatou Sow
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can cont… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"I love that you've known every version of me. You were there at the beginning and I want you there at the end."-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
"When you are obsessed with your friend's brain, it's natural to crave ordered conversations and excuses to go deeper."-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
"It can be extremely hard to figure out the right amount of growth and sacrifice to be devoting to a friendship, because we're not taught that friends are worth stretching for at all. Your spouse? Def…"-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
28. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
29. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
By: Cait West
4.14
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life
By: Elizabeth Segran
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Defining Decade for the #Adulting generation—a book that blends storytelling and data to unpack… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
- self help
