7 must-read self help books like A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It by Alex Riley

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A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

By: Alex Riley

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A fascinating, “rich, and generous” ( Financial Times ) look at the treatment of depression by an a…

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1. Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)

By: Sara Paretsky

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is C… read more

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2. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

3. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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4. Magic City

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman … read more

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5. Catwings (Catwings, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The bestselling Catwings series! Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were b… read more

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6. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

By: Michael Wejchert

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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12. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

14. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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15. The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

By: Rodney Habib

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Forever Dog has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

-Rodney Habib, The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

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16. The Urge: Our History of Addiction

By: Carl Erik Fisher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

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17. Move The Body, Heal The Mind: Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep

By: Jennifer Heisz

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat menta… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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18. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

By: Jennifer Wright

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden

20. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

By: Richard Ovenden

3.72

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful d… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression

By: Edward Bullmore

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But trea… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age by Caroline Paul

22. Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age

By: Caroline Paul

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life by Gregory Scott Brown

23. The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

By: Gregory Scott Brown

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mental health is the driving force behind every decision we make—how we live, work, and love. Too m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

24. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas

25. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car by Nancy A. Nichols

26. Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

By: Nancy A. Nichols

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Snake Oil

By: Kelsey Rae Dimberg

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and twisty novel of literary suspense that interrogates the dark side of wellness, startup … read more

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28. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

29. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

By: Alex Riley

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A fascinating, “rich, and generous” ( Financial Times ) look at the treatment of depression by an a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • science

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Dan Egan

4.23

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

Michael Wejchert

3.99

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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Griffin Dunne

4.19

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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