12 must-read self help books like Alonement by Francesca Specter

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Alonement

By: Francesca Specter

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Being alone has a serious branding issue. We've only ever had negative language to talk about flyin…

If you liked the self help plot in Alonement by Francesca Specter , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

By: Susan Jeffers

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Success can be yours with Susan Jeffers's Feel the Fear and Do it AnywayThe world's foremost produc… read more

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3. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

By: Rolf Potts

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more

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4. It's Not About the Burqa

By: Mariam Khan

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

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5. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

By: Nicole LePera

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more

Similar categories in Nicole LePera's How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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7. The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

By: Melanie Chisholm

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate memoir from international pop star Melanie Chisholm--better known as Mel C. or Sporty S… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Why would we want to date stupid controlling men when we could be having a far better time with our mates?"

-Melanie Chisholm, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

"You’re not stupid if you don’t know something; you’re stupid if you don’t find out what it means, because you’ve missed an opportunity to learn something."

-Melanie Chisholm, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

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8. Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

By: Russell Brand

3.70

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself?Mentors – the follo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"I come from there, there where I never belonged."

-Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

"Because I have a program of recovery I recognize that I must when in crisis: 1. Acknowledge it. 2. Believe it could improve. 3. Ask for help."

-Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

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9. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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10. Rainbow Milk

By: Paul Mendez

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more

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11. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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12. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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13. Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love

By: Jessica Baum LMHC

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A road map for building strong and secure relationships for those who struggle with anxiety in thei… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Baum LMHC's Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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14. Help Me!: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Her Life

By: Marianne Power

3.89

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A hilarious and heartwarming rampage through the world of self-care Marianne Power was a self-he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"I'm just tired,' I said. Tired. How many times had I said that word when I didn't know what else to say? When I didn't know how to say I'm lost, I'm scared, I'm lonely, I feel like I'm losing it...?"

-Marianne Power, Help Me!: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Her Life

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15. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

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16. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

By: Bella Mackie

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's Jog On: How Running Saved My Life book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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17. The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention

By: Nicolas Cole

4.44

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

★ From the #1 writer on Quora, 15x Top Writer on Medium, and Top 10 columnist for Inc Magazine ★ W… read more

Similar categories in Nicolas Cole's The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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18. Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay

By: Liz Fosslien

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings and the wildly popular @LizandMollie Inst… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks by Simran Kaur​

19. Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks

By: Simran Kaur​

4.53

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Your step-by-step guide to financial independence―from the creator of the #1 investing education po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
"Women are told we’re risk averse, but we’re not. We’re just risk aware."

-Simran Kaur​, Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks

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20. Alison

By: Lizzy Stewart

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more

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21. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry

By: Nathan Filer

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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22. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By: Afua Hirsch

4.32

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

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23. The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself

By: Yrsa Daley-Ward

4.25

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"...It is good to feel this conflict, this vibrant sign of budding and wanting. The growing unease is how to know that you are not living your deepest wishes. That you are not in alignment with your i…"

-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself

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24. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"

By: Emma Specter

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more

Similar categories in Emma Specter's More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
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25. How to Heal a Broken Heart: From Rock Bottom to Reinvention (via ugly crying on the bathroom floor)

By: Rosie Green

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

'The poster girl for divorce.' The Times 'If you've ever had your heart broken (and who hasn't) Ro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

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27. Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood

By: Angelica Malin

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached. Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shapara… read more

Similar categories in Angelica Malin's Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
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28. Alonement

By: Francesca Specter

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Being alone has a serious branding issue. We've only ever had negative language to talk about flyin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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29. How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can

By: Ellie Middleton

4.35

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest feel-good book packed with practical tips from the author of the smash-hit book on ADHD,… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's How to be You: Say Goodbye to Should, Would and Could So That You Can book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
Cover of Unseen, Unheard, Undervalued: Managing Loneliness, Loss of Connection and Not Fitting In by Janina Scarlet

30. Unseen, Unheard, Undervalued: Managing Loneliness, Loss of Connection and Not Fitting In

By: Janina Scarlet

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Have you ever felt like you're shouting into the void for someone to just see you and to acknowledg… read more

Similar categories in Janina Scarlet's Unseen, Unheard, Undervalued: Managing Loneliness, Loss of Connection and Not Fitting In book and Francesca Specter's Alonement

  • nonfiction
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31. I Am Enough: A 90-day challenge to find contentment

By: Sheridan Stewart

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Stressed by your spending? Always feeling like you should do more? Join Sheridan Stewart on an insp… read more

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22 Best nonfiction books like Alonement by Francesca Specter

Transform Your Habits

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Transform Your Habits

It's Not About the Burqa

Mariam Khan

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Nicole LePera

4.14

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Transform Your Habits

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Tori Dunlap

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Investing with She’s on the Money: Build your future wealth

Victoria Devine

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Vivian Tu

4.03

Transform Your Habits

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Bola Sokunbi

4.19

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