20 best-selling nonfiction books like The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared by Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

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The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared

By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Find practical and emotional support for your journey with this immersive workbook. If you are …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared by Francesca Lynn Arnoldy , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Cancer Journals

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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2. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Atul Gawande , None

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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3. Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

By: Maggie Callanan , Patricia Kelley

4.27

Format: 637 pages,

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Giftshas beco… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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4. Iron Hearted Violet

By: Iacopo Bruno , Kelly Barnhill

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. Th… read more

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5. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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6. Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death

By: Henry Fersko-Weiss

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Caring for the Dyingdescribes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dyin… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • health
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7. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

By: Kathryn Mannix

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • death

8. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Malone Scott

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more

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9. Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

By: Stephen Jenkinson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Die Wisedoes not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying ea… read more

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10. Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

By: Joan Halifax , Ira Byock

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this long-awaited book of inspiring and practical teachings, Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax offer… read more

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11. The Silent Wife

By: A.S.A. Harrison

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A chilling psychological thriller about a marriage, a way of life, and how far one woman will go to… read more

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12. To Paradise

By: Hanya Yanagihara

3.75

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more

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"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

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13. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • death
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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15. Afterlives

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more

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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

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16. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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17. The Crane Husband

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.88

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more

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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

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18. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

By: Sogyal Rinpoche

4.21

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • death
"Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent."

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feel…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this un…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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19. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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20. 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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"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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21. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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22. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

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"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

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23. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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24. The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

By: Katy Butler

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient o… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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25. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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26. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

By: Sallie Tisdale

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • health
"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

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27. You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

By: Lane Moore

3.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes a searingly intimate, ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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29. A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

By: B.J. Miller

4.30

Format: 576 pages, Audiobook

“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only al… read more

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  • death
  • nonfiction
  • health
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30. The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared

By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Find practical and emotional support for your journey with this immersive workbook. If you are … read more

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9 must-read spirituality books like The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared by Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

Transform Your Habits

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Maggie Callanan , Patricia Kelley

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

John O'Donohue

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Sogyal Rinpoche

4.21

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Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

Julie McFadden

4.50

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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