23 must-read nonfiction books like Am I Ugly? by Michelle Elman

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Am I Ugly?

By: Michelle Elman

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In today’s world of supplements, celebrity diets and social media, it’s very easy to be hard on our…

"Understand that even if you hate your body, your body loves you. Your body fought for you to keep you alive and breathing every single day, so please stop fighting your body. You are on the same team."

-Michelle Elman, Am I Ugly?

"Understand that even if you hate your body, your body loves you. Your body fought for you to keep you alive and breathing every single day, so please stop fighting your body. You are on the same team."

-Michelle Elman, Am I Ugly?

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Am I Ugly? by Michelle Elman , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. All That She Can See

By: Carrie Hope Fletcher

3.47

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Feelings are part of life - feelings are life. If you take away what people feel, you take away any… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Hope Fletcher's All That She Can See book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • adult
"To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet."

-Carrie Hope Fletcher, All That She Can See

"I had as much influence over Loneliness as it had over me! I can see that now. No one can help how they feel so I was stuck with Loneliness. But I had a choice. I could let Loneliness consume me for …"

-Carrie Hope Fletcher, All That She Can See

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2. The Beauty Myth

By: Naomi Wolf

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female ident… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Only God, my dear,"

-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"Women are mere “beauties"

-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"Health makes good propaganda."

-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics."

-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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3. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

By: Joe Navarro , Marvin Karlins

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

He says that's his best offer. Is it? She says she agrees. Does she? The interview went great--or d… read more

Similar categories in Joe Navarro's What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

4. Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

We've been convinced that happiness is something that only comes once we hit that goal weight, get … read more

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5. Where Am I Now?

By: Mara Wilson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest colle… read more

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6. The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

By: Deborah Frances-White

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my conc… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Frances-White's The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Feminism has always been a request, or demand, for inclusion. Inclusion is the watchword of the second decade of the 21st century and in recent waves of feminism, but its nothing new."

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"First-wave feminism includes the terrifyingly brave suffragettes, who chained themselves to railings, blew up buildings, set fire to landmarks, and were force-fed horribly in prison, all so we could …"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"Including each other is the basis of our survival. The cost of complete exclusion is our mental health. Inclusion is vital to humanity. So the question can only ever be: who is included and why? Wome…"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"Feminism is a combination of social and political movements with a common goal to define, develop, and demand political, social, and fiscal rights for women. I'm sorry to tell you that a man coined t…"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

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7. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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8. The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

By: Vicky Pattison

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear and … read more

Similar categories in Vicky Pattison's The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • nonfiction
Cover of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill

9. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By: Roxane Gay

4.43

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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11. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • adult
  • audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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12. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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13. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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14. The Secret Life of an Uncool Mom (Tara Gallagher, #1)

By: Serena Terry

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the creator of viral Tiktok sensation, Mammy Banter, comes a hilarious warts-and-all novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Serena Terry's The Secret Life of an Uncool Mom (Tara Gallagher, #1) book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself

By: Toni Lodge

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more

Similar categories in Toni Lodge's I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

17. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

By: Daisy May Cooper

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more

Similar categories in Daisy May Cooper's Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. One Life

By: Megan Rapinoe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rapinoe's One Life book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

By: Blythe Roberson

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Roberson's America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."

-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

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20. You Are Not a Before Picture

By: Alex Light

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace … read more

Similar categories in Alex Light's You Are Not a Before Picture book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • self help
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Nothing But The Truth book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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22. Into the Dark

By: Fiona Cummins

3.67

Format: 400 pages, ebook

THE PLACE: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea. … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Cummins's Into the Dark book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg  Jenner

23. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

By: Greg Jenner

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more

Similar categories in Greg Jenner's Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?

By: Anders Hansen

3.99

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Succéförfattaren och psykiatern Anders Hansen är tillbaka med en ny bok om hjärnan, där han reder u… read more

Similar categories in Anders Hansen's Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra? book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them

By: Richard Pink

4.62

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A (self) love letter to those whose brains are beautifully and uniquely different’ Riyadh Khalaf |… read more

Similar categories in Richard Pink's Small Talk: 10 ADHD lies and how to stop believing them book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

By: Caroline Dooner

4.04

Format: 304 pages, ebook

From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop di… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Dooner's The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • self help
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sugar is addictive like oxygen is addictive. Your body fucking needs it."

-Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

Cover of Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen

27. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

By: Sofie Hagen

4.24

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We constantly have to reach an impossible standard in order to just be taken a little bit seriously, and you can't help but wonder if it's all a trick. If we are meant to be too busy applying lipstic…"

-Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

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28. Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food

By: Laura Thomas

4.06

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Just Eat It isn't just a book. It's part of a movement to give women power and control over our bod… read more

Similar categories in Laura Thomas's Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • self help
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

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30. Living With the Dominator

By: Pat Craven

4.42

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

This book explains violent and abusive behavior and places it in a social context. It can help read… read more

Similar categories in Pat Craven's Living With the Dominator book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Am I Ugly? by Michelle Elman

31. Am I Ugly?

By: Michelle Elman

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In today’s world of supplements, celebrity diets and social media, it’s very easy to be hard on our… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly? book and Michelle Elman's Am I Ugly?

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Understand that even if you hate your body, your body loves you. Your body fought for you to keep you alive and breathing every single day, so please stop fighting your body. You are on the same team."

-Michelle Elman, Am I Ugly?

12 Best adult books like Am I Ugly? by Michelle Elman

Transform Your Habits

All That She Can See

Carrie Hope Fletcher

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

Deborah Frances-White

4.16

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

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How to Kill Your Family

Bella Mackie

3.54

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Transform Your Habits

Girl Up

Laura Bates

4.10

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Deborah Frances-White

4.16

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Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Elizabeth Day

3.79

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Weirdo

Sara Pascoe

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