12 must-read self help books like An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer

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Similar categories in Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

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• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• audiobook
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• self help

"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Similar categories in Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• audiobook
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• self help

"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• business
• audiobook

"No one is “complete"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"So how much rest is “adequate"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Dread is anxiety on steroids."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Pooja Lakshmin's Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included) book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• business
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• sociology
• business
• audiobook

"[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats."

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"It's always been implied that if you fail to succeed, you aren't passionate enough. But I no longer invest in work emotionally. It isn't worth it. I learned that every single person is expendable. No…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsi…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longt…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• mental health
• nonfiction
• psychology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• psychology
• nonfiction
• adult
• sociology
• audiobook

"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Similar categories in Taylor Lorenz's Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• sociology
• business
• audiobook

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Paper Girls: The Complete Story book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Similar categories in Danielle Friedman's Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nadia Bolz-Weber's Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

Similar categories in Aisha Harris's Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

Similar categories in Jane Ward's The Tragedy of Heterosexuality book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sophia Benoit's Well, This Is Exhausting book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• nonfiction
• business
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rose Hackman's Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Delia Cai's Central Places book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional book and Rainesford Stauffer's An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• adult
• sociology
• business
• audiobook