12 must-read nonfiction books like Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools by Matt Pinkett

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Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools

By: Matt Pinkett

4.20

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

There is a significant problem in our too many boys are struggling. The list of things to concern …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools by Matt Pinkett , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

By: Deborah Rodriguez

3.67

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more

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"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

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2. Stone Cold

By: Robert Swindells

3.27

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

'It's like parachuting. Get the first jump over and it becomes routine, but you mustn't get complac… read more

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  • school

3. Good Night, Mr. Tom

By: Michelle Magorian

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a… read more

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4. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more

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5. The Bone Sparrow

By: Zana Fraillon

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fl… read more

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6. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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7. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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10. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

By: Philippa Perry

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good conn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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12. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

By: Georgia Pritchett

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflectio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. The Shortest History of England

By: James Hawes

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By: John Preston

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transfor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour

By: Tom Bennett

4.27

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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16. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Teach to the Top: Aiming High for Every Learner

By: Megan Mansworth

4.07

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Teach to the Top is a research-informed guide to aspirational teaching, focusing on how embedding h… read more

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  • teaching
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18. Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools

By: Matt Pinkett

4.20

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

There is a significant problem in our too many boys are struggling. The list of things to concern … read more

Similar categories in Matt Pinkett's Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools book and Matt Pinkett's Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools

  • school
  • gender
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
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19. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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20. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way

By: Katharine Birbalsingh

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Teachers at the trailblazing Michaela school in London explore ideas that improve the lives of pupi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

20 Top audiobook books like My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Bedtime Stories for Stressed Adults: Sleep Meditation Stories to Melt Stress and Fall Asleep Fast Every Night

Mindfulness Habits Team

2.91

Transform Your Habits

Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Nora McInerny

3.84

Transform Your Habits

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Molly Shannon

4.13

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