16 must-read nonfiction books like But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

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But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli

4.58

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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

1. 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

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • 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

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2. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Cover of The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

3. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi   Gupta

4. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

By: Prachi Gupta

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more

Similar categories in Prachi Gupta's They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • race
  • biography
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Cover of Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo

5. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

6. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

By: Yashica Dutt

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more

Similar categories in Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Cover of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan

7. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • self help
  • race
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

By: Chanel Miller

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
Cover of Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué

9. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

By: Mariel Buqué

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scient… read more

Similar categories in Mariel Buqué's Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Take the Intergenerational ACES Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Take the Intergenerational ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Three core areas became the focus: (1) What happened to you? (2) What happened before you? and (3) What happened around you?"

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Cover of It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) by Karen Tang

10. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

Similar categories in Karen Tang's It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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11. Habitations

By: Sheila Sundar

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green car… read more

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12. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers

By: Abraham Chang

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Chang's 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
Cover of Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power by Devon  Price

13. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

By: Devon Price

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

14. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • self help
  • race
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir by Priyanka Mattoo

15. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more

Similar categories in Priyanka Mattoo's Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

16. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli

4.58

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more

Similar categories in Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • cultural
  • self help
  • race
  • biography
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water by Amorina Kingdon

17. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

By: Amorina Kingdon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more

Similar categories in Amorina Kingdon's Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

18. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • audiobook
Cover of Succeeding with Adult ADHD by Abigail Levrini

19. Succeeding with Adult ADHD

By: Abigail Levrini

4.10

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Adults with ADHD face unique challenges that impact every aspect of life, including work and relati… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Levrini's Succeeding with Adult ADHD book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

20. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

By: Isabella Hammad

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

3.95

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They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Prachi Gupta

4.36

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Mindy McGinnis

3.94

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Soyoung Park

3.62

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Essie J. Chambers

3.54

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