12 Top nonfiction books like Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang

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Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By: Larry Yang

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. World as Lover, World as Self

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Joanna Macy

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This overview of Joanna Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and t… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's World as Lover, World as Self book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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2. Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness

By: Diana Winston , Susan L. Smalley

3.91

Format: 24 pages,

Mindfulness has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have co… read more

Similar categories in Diana Winston's Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

3. You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships

By: Richard C. Schwartz , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, ap… read more

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4. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide: Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions

By: Rob Brandsma

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

You must embody mindfulness in order to teach it. The Mindfulness Teaching Guideoffers a thorough a… read more

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5. Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

By: None , Dave Evans

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

*** The #1 New York Times Bestseller *** Whether we're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still l… read more

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6. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

By: Parker J. Palmer

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more

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7. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more

Similar categories in Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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8. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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9. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
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10. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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11. The Friend

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more

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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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12. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Sean Greer's Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2) book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • queer
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13. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Cover of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner

14. Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

By: Toko-pa Turner

4.38

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner for Personal Growth The world has never been more connected, yet… read more

Similar categories in Toko-pa Turner's Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater"

-Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

"As we apprentice ourselves to the way of nature, we begin to understand that all of life is in a continuous cycle of giving and receiving. It is the honouring of this cycle that makes us feel at home…"

-Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

"The willingness to rebel from the expected norms, rules, and silent contracts of establishment comes out of knowing that one cannot afford to build resentment. Resentment, which comes from the decisi…"

-Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

"There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has set in. By beauty, I don’t mean a superficial attractiveness, though the word is comm…"

-Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

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15. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • queer
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

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16. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By: Holly Whitaker

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. “You don… read more

Similar categories in Holly Whitaker's Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
"OK,"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Alcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"...we've reached a tipping point--more [women] are aware of the terms of our own oppression and of our complicity in the oppression of others."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Americans aren't stupid. We are, however, preternaturally disposed to herd behavior (FOMO), with a strong desire to preserve a sense of individuality and maintain control over our decision making. We…"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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17. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks

By: Drew Ramsey

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through… read more

Similar categories in Drew Ramsey's Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
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18. Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

By: Ruth King

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a moment of racial tension, have you ever tried to simply “shrug off?” your outrage? Or put on a… read more

Similar categories in Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • race
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
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19. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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20. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By: Larry Yang

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co… read more

Similar categories in Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • race
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
  • activism
  • queer
Cover of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention, and Compassion by Amanda Gilbert

21. Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention, and Compassion

By: Amanda Gilbert

4.14

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Cultivate an open heart and deepen your kindness and compassion response with this accessible, 28-d… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Gilbert's Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention, and Compassion book and Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

7 Top spirituality books like Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang

Transform Your Habits

World as Lover, World as Self

Thich Nhat Hanh , Joanna Macy

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness

Diana Winston , Susan L. Smalley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Tara Brach

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

Toko-pa Turner

4.38

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12 must-read audiobook books like White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

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