11 Best nonfiction books like The Best Way to Catch a Snake: A Practical Guide To Gautama Buddha's Teachings by Karma Yeshe Rabgye

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The Best Way to Catch a Snake: A Practical Guide To Gautama Buddha's Teachings

By: Karma Yeshe Rabgye

4.44

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Buddhism, with its stress on non-violence, the ‘middle path’ and its promise of nirvana, finds many…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Best Way to Catch a Snake: A Practical Guide To Gautama Buddha's Teachings by Karma Yeshe Rabgye , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

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3. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday

4.15

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aureli… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
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5. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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6. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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7. A Course in Miracles

By: Foundation for Inner Peace

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

By: Eckhart Tolle

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, "The Power o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

11. What Makes You Not a Buddhist

By: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dzongsar Khyentse is one of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching … read more

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12. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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13. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.32

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering an… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
"Everything is in your own heart."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

"The greatest miracle is to be alive."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

"Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

"The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

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14. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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15. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more

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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

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16. The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives"

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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17. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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18. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

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"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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19. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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20. Of Women and Salt

By: Gabriela Garcia

3.69

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is… read more

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21. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more

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22. Bewilderment

By: Richard Powers

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more

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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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23. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.57

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more

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"We all have a animal double, Englishman."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

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24. The Book of Longings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ru… read more

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"Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

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25. Memphis

By: Tara M. Stringfellow

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more

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26. The Best Way to Catch a Snake: A Practical Guide To Gautama Buddha's Teachings

By: Karma Yeshe Rabgye

4.44

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Buddhism, with its stress on non-violence, the ‘middle path’ and its promise of nirvana, finds many… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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3.85

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4.07

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