21 must-read nonfiction books like The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself by Alli Webb

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The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

By: Alli Webb

3.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, had it all--until she didn't. When Drybar and its world-famous blo…

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Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

1. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter

2. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Cover of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier by Marisa Meltzer

3. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Meltzer's Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • business
  • audiobook
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

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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

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • 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. Activate Your Greatness

By: Alex Toussaint

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Alex Toussaint, the Peloton star who counts everyone from Roger Federer and the Golden State Warrio… read more

Similar categories in Alex Toussaint's Activate Your Greatness book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life by Jamie Kern Lima

6. Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

By: Jamie Kern Lima

4.07

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What has self-doubt already cost you in your life?Imagine what you’d do if you FULLY believed in YO… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Kern Lima's Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone by Cameron Russell

7. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Russell's How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

8. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party by Tulsi Gabbard

9. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party

By: Tulsi Gabbard

4.43

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and in… read more

Similar categories in Tulsi Gabbard's For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall

10. Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History

By: Alan Sepinwall

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Welcome to the O.C., b* it's the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show… read more

Similar categories in Alan Sepinwall's Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

11. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Goldschneider's The Weight of Beautiful book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. So Fetch

By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's So Fetch book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shift by Tinx

14. The Shift

By: Tinx

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious an… read more

Similar categories in Tinx's The Shift book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I was in dicksand. I was dicknotized."

-Tinx, The Shift

Cover of Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable by Jamie Kern Lima

15. Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

By: Jamie Kern Lima

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Believe IT, Jamie Kern Lima, founder of IT Cosmetics, shares the wild but true story of how a on… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Kern Lima's Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Your gut is always right!"

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"What you focus on magnifies."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"Gratitude can change everything."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"Be confident in your authentic gifts."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

Cover of Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

16. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Leap of Faith by Cameron Hamilton

17. Leap of Faith

By: Cameron Hamilton

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The fan-favorite couple from Netflix’s Love Is Blind share their engaging and accessible love advic… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Hamilton's Leap of Faith book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks by Matt Gutman

18. No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks

By: Matt Gutman

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By ABC News’s chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whos… read more

Similar categories in Matt Gutman's No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For by Molly Stillman

19. If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

By: Molly Stillman

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares h… read more

Similar categories in Molly Stillman's If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself by Alli Webb

20. The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

By: Alli Webb

3.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, had it all--until she didn't. When Drybar and its world-famous blo… read more

Similar categories in Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane

21. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

By: Charlotte Shane

3.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Shane's An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work book and Alli Webb's The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

21 Best audiobook books like The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself by Alli Webb

Transform Your Habits

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Transform Your Habits

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

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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20 must-read audiobook books like The Shift by Tinx

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

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