6 Top self help books like What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology by Nina Lorez Collins

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What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

By: Nina Lorez Collins

3.55

Format: None pages, Audiobook

When Nina Collins entered her forties she found herself awash in a sea of hormones. As symptoms of …

If you liked the self help plot in What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology by Nina Lorez Collins , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. My Life on the Road

By: Gloria Steinem

4.07

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a home but me."

-Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

"hate generalizes, love specifies"

-Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

"After all, hope is a form of planning."

-Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

"Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and."

-Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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2. Wildflower

By: Drew Barrymore

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"The house is chaos sometimes when the dogs are trying to eat the kids' food or jumping into the tub with them. But it's worth it. Life with dogs is better."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

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3. What I Know for Sure

By: Oprah Winfrey

4.14

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"Our beliefs can move us forward in life - or they can hold us back."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself; when you're aware of all you have"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God…"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

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4. In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

By: Karen Karbo

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

From Amelia Earhart to Carrie Fisher, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the impe… read more

Similar categories in Karen Karbo's In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules book and Nina Lorez Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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5. The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

3.86

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more

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"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

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6. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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7. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Nina Lorez Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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9. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Darkshire's Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller book and Nina Lorez Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Nina Lorez Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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11. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

By: Dan Harris

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker."

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

"I have a friend, a fellow meditator, who jokes that when he considers the voice in his head, he feels like he's been kidnapped by the most boring person alive, who says the same baloney over and over…"

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

Cover of Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick by Jen Sincero

12. Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

By: Jen Sincero

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits–breaking, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Drama dies without an audience"

-Jen Sincero, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

"The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing."

-Jen Sincero, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

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13. Breathe: A Life in Flow

By: Rickson Gracie

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

*An instant  New York Times  bestseller, USA Today  bestseller, and Wall Street Journal  bestseller… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Shattering disappointments require you to be radically honest with yourself, a process that can be painful but is absolutely necessary."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"If I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, 98 percent of MMA fans have never stepped into the cage, or even onto the mat, much less felt their noses break or tendons pop. Their relationship with violence is virtual. MMA is just somethi…"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, it is possible to get a Jiu Jitsu black belt without knowing self-defense or even getting into a real fight. This was impossible during the 1970s and 1980s. Because my father and uncle loudly …"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

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14. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

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15. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

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16. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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17. The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two ver… read more

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18. Anywhere You Run

By: Wanda M. Morris

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful nov… read more

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Cover of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry by Kelly Richmond Pope

19. Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry

By: Kelly Richmond Pope

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from fore… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Richmond Pope's Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry book and Nina Lorez Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

  • nonfiction
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20. What Would Virginia Woolf Do?: And Other Questions I Ask Myself as I Attempt to Age Without Apology

By: Nina Lorez Collins

3.55

Format: None pages, Audiobook

When Nina Collins entered her forties she found herself awash in a sea of hormones. As symptoms of … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help

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Transform Your Habits

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Wildflower

Drew Barrymore

3.59

Transform Your Habits

What I Know for Sure

Oprah Winfrey

4.14

Transform Your Habits

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Karen Karbo

3.50

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

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T. Kingfisher

3.69

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Michelle Porter

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