14 must-read psychology books like The Power of Negative Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

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The Power of Negative Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.92

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

To achieve any major life goal, conventional wisdom tells us we must think positively. Picture your…

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1. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

By: Rachel Cusk

3.66

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that follo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"[I]t has struck me that along with all other losses, I might lose friendship, too. I am not equal anymore to the people that I know, and what is friendship but a celebration of equality?"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison."

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best …"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am…"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

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2. Book of Longing

By: Leonard Cohen

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more

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  • audiobook
"I am this thing that needs to sing."

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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3. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant

By: Margareta Magnusson

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Razor Girl

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The new full-tilt, razor-sharp, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling … read more

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5. The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy

By: Nagisa Tatsumi

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Nagisa Tatsumi's intern… read more

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6. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

By: Susan David

4.22

Format: None pages,

The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Re… read more

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7. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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9. The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

By: Jason Fung

4.50

Format: 327 pages, ebook

Dr. Jason Fung forever changed the way we think about obesity with his best-selling book, The Obesi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • 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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12. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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13. The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

By: Wim Hof

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful met… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

By: Vivian Tu

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was m… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Because a lack of basic financial literacy keeps our working class working."

-Vivian Tu, Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

"No, you're not going to be able to save your way to rich. But you can save yourself out of a paycheck-to-paycheck cycle. And that is the very first step to feeling truly confident in your personal fi…"

-Vivian Tu, Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

"If this is you, think of what truly makes you feel good, happy, safe, healthy. Remind yourself that you earn money to be able to make those feelings a reality, and while you do have to spend to get t…"

-Vivian Tu, Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

"If you find yourself enacting this "nothing matters, so why bother" attitude toward money, first, you need to recognize that, as a human being, you have agency and you have value. YYou can do things …"

-Vivian Tu, Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

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15. The Three Billy Goats Gruff

By: Mac Barnett

4.34

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Bi… read more

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16. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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17. Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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18. The School of Life: An Emotional Education

By: Alain de Botton

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

By: Scott Barry Kaufman

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full … read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

By: Mehdi Hasan

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, r… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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21. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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22. Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Scott Galloway

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs - An Antidote for Short-Termism

By: Ari Wallach

3.76

Format: 208 pages, ebook

"An antidote to nearsightedness. Ari Wallach won't just leave you planning months or years ahead--h… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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24. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

By: Qing Li

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

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25. Walking. One Step at a Time

By: Erling Kagge

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • audiobook
"Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing."

-Erling Kagge, Walking. One Step at a Time

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26. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

By: Shane O'Mara

3.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity. Walking upright on two feet… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"The larger lesson is clear: brains have evolved for movement. If you're going to be stuck, unmoving, in one place, with all your food around you, then why do you need a costly brain?"

-Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

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28. The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

By: Mark Schatzker

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunct… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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29. The Power of Negative Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.92

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

To achieve any major life goal, conventional wisdom tells us we must think positively. Picture your… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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30. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook

23 best-selling audiobook books like The Power of Negative Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

Transform Your Habits

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant

Margareta Magnusson

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Roswell

Connie Willis

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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15 Top nonfiction books like The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

Transform Your Habits

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

Steve Chandler

4.01

Transform Your Habits

This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

M.J. Ryan

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

Manoush Zomorodi

4.00

Transform Your Habits

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The School of Life

4.12

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