12 Top nonfiction books like Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith

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Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune

By: Tiffany Watt Smith

3.37

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy w…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. İnsan Olmak

By: Engin Geçtan

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. Histoire de la violence

By: Édouard Louis

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more

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"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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3. Ignorance

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty… read more

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  • philosophy
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4. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

By: Harriet Lerner

3.94

Format: None pages,

"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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6. Dul

By: Jean-Louis Fournier , Can Belge

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

"Artik dulum. 12 Kasim gunu Sylvie oldu. Cok uzucu. Bu sene indirimli satislara birlikte gidemeyece… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar (Alper Kamu #1)

By: Alper Canıgüz

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Bes yas insanin en olgun cagidir; sonra curume baslar. Ben Alper Kamu, birkac ay once bes yasina b… read more

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8. The Museum of Innocence

By: Orhan Pamuk , Maureen Freely , None

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his firs… read more

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9. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

10. The Book of Invisible Questions

By: Lala Bohang

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Who? A breathing meat. Why? Some breathing meat lucky enough to understand their purpose of existen… read more

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11. Zorba the Greek

By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more

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  • philosophy
"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."

-None, Zorba the Greek

"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

-None, Zorba the Greek

12. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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13. The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

By: Alice Miller , None

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way ma… read more

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14. Yesterday

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgment… read more

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15. Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The publication of Creatures of a Dayis reason to celebrate." --Steven Pinker In this stunning col… read more

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16. Cehennem Çiçeği (Alper Kamu, #2)

By: Alper Canıgüz

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Bilirsiniz, insanlar dogar, olur ve sonra buyur." Dunyanin en kucuk dedektifi geri dondu. Alper Ka… read more

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17. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

By: Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more

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18. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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19. Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.65

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Una mujer le explica al doctor que su marido se ha partido el cráneo con un hacha al caerse de la c… read more

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"È lì, accanto al letto , sul tappeto. Ha una scure piantata nella testa. Vuole visitarlo? Sì, lo visiti pure. Un incidente davvero stupido, non trova? È caduto dal letto nel sonno, ed è caduto su que…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"– Allora a domani, Lucien, – dice. E prima di riattaccare aggiunge: – Trovo tutto ciò appassionante. Appassionante! C’è gente che usa certe parole con grande facilità. Io non potrei mai parlare così.…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"Chiudete bene la porta. Io arrivo senza rumore, con le mani guantate di nero. Non sono il tipo brutale. E neppure vorace e stupido. Sulle mie tempie e sui polsi potreste ammirare il disegno delicato …"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

"A quei tempi consumavo un'enorme quantità di gesso, per via di una carenza di calcio. La cosa mi causava un po' di febbre, ma non ne ho mai approfittato per trascurare la scuola, poiché – come dico s…"

-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

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20. Long Live the Post Horn!

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.67

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more

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"A letter is practically a gift."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

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21. The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more

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  • audiobook
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

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22. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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23. Second Sister

By: Chan Ho-Kei

4.42

Format: 495 pages, Paperback

Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years… read more

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24. Pandora's Box

By: Osamu Dazai

3.63

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

The war is over. Japan is defeated. Together with his country, a young man must rebuild his life. H… read more

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  • audiobook
"This cry was old until yesterday. Today, however, this is the newest free thought. The reason of then years ago differs from the reason of today. That is not mysticism after all. It is the innate lov…"

-Osamu Dazai, Pandora's Box

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25. Rezonans Kanunu

By: Pierre Franckh

4.02

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Size hep ulaşılmaz görünen mutlu anları özlüyorsunuz. Evrendeki sonsuz zenginliğin bir parçası olma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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26. Aptallarla Ne Yapmalı? Onlardan Biri Olmamak İçin

By: Maxime Rovere

3.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"Sokakta rastlanan binlerce vakada –yolunuzu kesen bir araç, köpeğini tekmeleyen veya yerlere çöp a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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27. Bekleyecek Vaktim Kalmadı Artık

By: Jean-Louis Fournier

3.60

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Fournier’den ebedi yalnızlığa mahkûm olmuş ruhlar için edebi katkılar... “80 yıl sonra artık bek… read more

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28. Seorang Pria yang Melalui Duka dengan Mencuci Piring

By: Andreas Kurniawan

4.51

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Ketika menyambut pasien yang sedang berduka, seorang psikiater akan menggali keilmuan yang dimiliki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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29. Pembe Fili Düşünme

By: Zeynep Selvili Çarmıklı

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Pembe fili düşünmemem gerekiyor. Tamam, o zaman kocaman, gri bir balina düşünürüm. Pembe fili düşün… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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30. Kotileikki

By: Natalia Kallio

3.33

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Lähiökerrostalon pihalta kurkottava väkevä kasvukertomus Esikoisromaani kuvaa sukupolvien yli ja… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune

By: Tiffany Watt Smith

3.37

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy w… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Watt Smith's Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune book and Tiffany Watt Smith's Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • history
  • humor
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • sociology
  • science

6 must-read audiobook books like Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith

Transform Your Habits

İnsan Olmak

Engin Geçtan

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Appointment

Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Pandora's Box

Osamu Dazai

3.63

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13 must-read fiction books like Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof by Ágota Kristóf

Transform Your Habits

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Asla Kimseyi Öldürmedi Benim Babam

Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

Ágota Kristóf

3.65

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