5 must-read self help books like Quiet the Mind by Matthew Johnstone

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Quiet the Mind

By: Matthew Johnstone

4.28

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world where finding even ten minutes to 'do nothing' can be difficult, the benefits of meditat…

If you liked the self help plot in Quiet the Mind by Matthew Johnstone , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Anya's Ghost

By: Vera Brosgol

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part. Of all t… read more

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  • graphic novels
"Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

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2. Agathe

By: Anne Cathrine Bomann

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • psychology
  • mental health
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3. Reasons to Stay Alive

By: Matt Haig

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-af… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

4. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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5. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • graphic novels
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6. Endling

By: Jasmin Schreiber

3.76

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Schneckenforscherin Auguste hat sich komplett zurückgezogen und lebt in einer Wohnung, die mehr… read more

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7. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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8. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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9. Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy

By: Linn Strømsborg

4.16

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Mam trzydzieści pięć lat. Nie chcę mieć dzieci. Bohaterka powieści Linn Strømsborg nigdy nie chc… read more

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"Ich wünsche mir ein langes Leben, das ich mit Büchern fühlen will"

-Linn Strømsborg, Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy

"Eltern warten auf ein Danke, Kinder auf eine Entschuldigung. Keiner kriegt, was er sich wünscht."

-Linn Strømsborg, Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy

"Rodzice czekają na podziękowania, a dzieci czekają na przeprosiny. Nikt z nas nie dostanie nigdy tego, czego pragnie."

-Linn Strømsborg, Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy

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10. The Girl with the Louding Voice

By: Abi Daré

4.43

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

All you have are your words.Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: a… read more

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"I draw a breath, comforting myself with her scent of coconut oil and lily flower."

-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

"The wall in the room we shared will remind them that we were here. That we are human. Of value. Important."

-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

"... I feel a free that I didn't feel in long time. And when I smile, it climb from inside my stomach and spread itself on my teeth."

-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

"Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about…"

-Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

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11. Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more

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"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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12. Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more

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"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"I have my fingerprints all over you. & I don't need the world to see them to know that they're there."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

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13. Sie hat Bock

By: Katja Lewina

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Was ist sexistisch an unserem Sex? Katja Lewina hat Bock, und sie schreibt darüber. Wäre sie ein M… read more

Similar categories in Katja Lewina's Sie hat Bock book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • nonfiction
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14. The Dilemma

By: B.A. Paris

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Knowing the truth will destroy her. Keeping it secret will destroy him.It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, … read more

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15. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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16. Exciting Times

By: Naoise Dolan

3.23

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more

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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

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17. Kirmes im Kopf: Wie ich als Erwachsene herausfand, dass ich AD(H)S habe

By: Angelina Boerger

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Schätzungsweise 2,5 Millionen Erwachsene sind in Deutschland von der Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hypera… read more

Similar categories in Angelina Boerger's Kirmes im Kopf: Wie ich als Erwachsene herausfand, dass ich AD(H)S habe book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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18. Anxiety is Really Strange

By: Steve Haines

3.53

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind… read more

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  • health
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Causes of anxiety range from gut bacteria to adverse childhood experiences to existential angst."

-Steve Haines, Anxiety is Really Strange

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19. Biodiversität: 100 Seiten

By: Jasmin Schreiber

4.63

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

»Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, was ich empfinden würde, wenn ich vor dem letzten Exemplar einer Ar… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Schreiber's Biodiversität: 100 Seiten book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • nonfiction
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20. Quiet the Mind

By: Matthew Johnstone

4.28

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world where finding even ten minutes to 'do nothing' can be difficult, the benefits of meditat… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind book and Matthew Johnstone's Quiet the Mind

  • health
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

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Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

3.82

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Katja Lewina

4.18

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Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

Chloé Hayden

4.34

Transform Your Habits

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Angelina Boerger

4.31

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Lola Shoneyin

4.25

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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