11 Best nonfiction books like Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood by Erin Pepler

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Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood

By: Erin Pepler

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Send Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on t…

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1. The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

By: Shawn Micallef

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays

2. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

By: Leslie Jamison

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Timesbestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the … read more

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3. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • adult
  • canada
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4. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Erin Pepler's Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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5. The Lost Letter

By: Mimi Matthews

4.03

Format: 244 pages, ebook

Alternative cover edition for ASIN B07777L5NP. A PROUD BEAUTY Society beauty Sylvia Stafford… read more

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"She briefly closed her eyes as a fiery blush crept into her face. "The first letter," she repeated. "Of course it would be." "Milsom bought it from her for fifty pounds. He brought it back to Pershin…"

-Mimi Matthews, The Lost Letter

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6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

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  • nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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7. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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8. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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9. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

By: Jessi Klein

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • parenting
  • essays
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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10. Burma Sahib

By: Paul Theroux

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of  The Mosquito Coast  and  The Bad Angel Brothers  comes a riveting new… read more

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11. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

Similar categories in Sara Petersen's Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture book and Erin Pepler's Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • parenting
Cover of The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You by Margareta Magnusson

12. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

By: Margareta Magnusson

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning— now a TV series… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...unless you depend on your looks for your career or your joy, hinging your life on looking young is such a bad idea."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The older I get, the more I find that I remember clearly all the things I said yes to, just when I was about to say no. I must admit I have not been open-minded all the time. I just wish I had been."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

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13. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

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  • adult
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

14. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

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  • canada
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15. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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16. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

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  • adult
  • canada
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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17. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

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  • canada
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18. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

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  • adult
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19. We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter

By: Celeste Headlee

3.96

Format: 272 pages, ebook

“WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee sho… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
"I now believe that conversation may be one of the most fundamental skills we can learn and improve upon."

-Celeste Headlee, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter

"We've all lost something because of what we said or didn't say, what we failed to hear, or what we heard and misunderstood. So we can all benefit from learning a better way."

-Celeste Headlee, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter

"If you want to articulate your opinion, write a blog. If you want to have a conversation, set your opinions aside, at least temporarily. You might find you never want to return to them. You might fin…"

-Celeste Headlee, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter

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20. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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21. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

22. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

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  • canada
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23. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
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24. Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life

By: Drew Barrymore

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Drew Barrymore has always done things in her own unique way--including how she cooks, lives, and fi… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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25. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • canada
Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

26. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
Cover of Gigi, Listening by Chantel Guertin

27. Gigi, Listening

By: Chantel Guertin

3.58

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Christina Lauren will adore this touching and witty novel about a woman… read more

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  • adult
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28. The Afterpains

By: Anna Julia Stainsby

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope … read more

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  • canada
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29. Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood

By: Erin Pepler

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Send Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on t… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
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30. Our Lady of Mile End

By: Sarah Gilbert

3.73

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

None read more

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31. Hold My Girl

By: Charlene Carr

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her enti… read more

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  • adult
  • canada

16 must-read adult books like Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood by Erin Pepler

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Kate Flannery

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

Transform Your Habits

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Jessi Klein

3.90

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Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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