5 must-read buddhism books like Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan's Female Shamans by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

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Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan's Female Shamans

By: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

3.72

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

As mystics, healers, and travelers to the netherworld, female shamans continue to impact the spirit…

If you liked the buddhism plot in Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan's Female Shamans by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more

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2. Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

By: Eric Swanson , None

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation of Tibetan meditation masters… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. Canoeing with the Cree

By: Eric Sevareid , Ann Bancroft

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1930 two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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6. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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7. A Year in the Maine Woods

By: Bernd Heinrich

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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8. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

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"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

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9. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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10. Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"

-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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11. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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12. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

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13. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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14. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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15. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

By: Laura Imai Messina

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of sur… read more

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"We're still parents, even when our children are no longer here."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"It isn't just the best things that come to an end, but also the worst."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"It was the right moment. It always is when something beautiful happens."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

"We need to possess joy in abundance before we can bestow it on somebody else."

-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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17. Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

By: Jenny Lawson

4.03

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happe… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Only monsters call when they could text."

-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

"Nothing lasts forever. The good and the bad."

-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

"My doctor nodded. “I think you’ll be fine no matter what,"

-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

"I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel."

-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

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18. An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division

By: Dalai Lama XIV

4.19

Format: 128 pages, ebook

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW FROM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, A LITTLE BOOK OF GREAT WISDOM F… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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19. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

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"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

Cover of Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan's Female Shamans by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

20. Divine Messengers: The Untold Story of Bhutan's Female Shamans

By: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

3.72

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

As mystics, healers, and travelers to the netherworld, female shamans continue to impact the spirit… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • health
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21. Jhāna Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience

By: Paul Dennison

4.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understa… read more

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  • buddhism
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22. Luminous Darkness

By: Deborah Eden Tull

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness—including difficul… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

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4.36

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4.26

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4.13

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4.14

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4.03

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3.99

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4.28

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Sloane Crosley

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