24 best-selling nonfiction books like Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging by Richard J. Leider

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Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging

By: Richard J. Leider

3.64

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

“[A] valuable guide . . . The authors’ gentle tone and many helpful suggestions will make readers f…

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Cover of Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Morton Shaevitz

1. Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard , Morton Shaevitz

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After you reach middle age, what are you going to do with the rest of your life to make it healthy,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help

2. Notes from a Small Island

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-sellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life

By: Chris Guillebeau

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A remarkable book that will both guide and inspire, The Happiness of Pursuit reveals how anyone can… read more

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5. The Couple's Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together

By: None , None

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

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6. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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7. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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8. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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9. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.94

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett

11. Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

By: Kelly Starrett

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Simple and proven physical practices designed to improve the way your body feels—less stiffness! fe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

Cover of The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose by Oprah Winfrey

13. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

By: Oprah Winfrey

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you hom…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with o…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Your life is always speaking to you in whispers, guiding you to your next right step. And in many situations, the whisper is also the first warning. It’s a quiet nudge from deep within saying, Hmmm, …"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

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14. Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

By: Brad Stulberg

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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15. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Retiring?: Your Next Chapter Is about Much More Than Money by Ted Kaufman, Bruce Hiland

16. Retiring?: Your Next Chapter Is about Much More Than Money

By: Ted Kaufman, Bruce Hiland

3.69

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Planning for retirement isn't just about money. Retirement has changed dramatically since our pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger

17. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. The House Guest

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which cha… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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20. The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self

By: Ian Morgan Cron

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Insightful, humorous, practical, this book will not only help you understand the story you’re tell… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. The Last Animal

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.47

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age by Bruce Feiler

22. Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age

By: Bruce Feiler

3.95

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestseller!  A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest tran… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we’re thrown when they don’t. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities... We’re all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no …"

-Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age

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23. Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old

By: Steven Petrow

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I ge… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live by Becca Levy

24. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

By: Becca Levy

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award Yale professor and leading e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century by Marcus Chown

25. The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century

By: Marcus Chown

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From gravity to black holes, tides to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. How to Think About Money

By: Jonathan Clements

4.20

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

There are those who think the goal of investing is to beat the market and amass as much wealth as p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8) by Sherry Thomas

27. A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8)

By: Sherry Thomas

4.19

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself … read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging

By: Richard J. Leider

3.64

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

“[A] valuable guide . . . The authors’ gentle tone and many helpful suggestions will make readers f… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • self help
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

29. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act by Robin   Ryan

30. Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act

By: Robin Ryan

3.85

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

"This book helps you create a plan and pivot toward a fun, meaningful future in retirement"-- read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help

26 best-selling audiobook books like Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging by Richard J. Leider

Transform Your Habits

Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Kenneth H. Blanchard , Morton Shaevitz

3.88

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell

4.19

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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20 Top audiobook books like From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Character

David Brooks

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Bill Perkins

3.91

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