23 must-read nonfiction books like Alonement: How to be alone and absolutely own it by Francesca Specter

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Alonement: How to be alone and absolutely own it

By: Francesca Specter

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

How to be alone and absolutely own it, by founder of the Alonement blog and podcast, Francesca Spec…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Alonement: How to be alone and absolutely own it by Francesca Specter , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

By: Michael A. Singer

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes this thought-provokin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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2. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

By: Brené Brown

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brene Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to da… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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3. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

By: Gary Keller , Jay Papasan

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The One Thingexplains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help

4. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

By: Simon Sinek

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential,… read more

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5. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love

By: Amir Levine , None

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levi… read more

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6. The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM

By: Hal Elrod

3.90

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of th… read more

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  • personal development
  • self help

7. Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want

By: Alexandra H. Solomon

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Real love starts with you. In order to attract a life partner, you must first become a good partner… read more

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8. The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

By: Ichiro Kishimi

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The author team behind worldwide bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked return with the must-have co… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
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9. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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10. Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness

By: Vex King

3.99

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautifully designed book full of inspiring quotes and tried-and-tested wisdom on using positivit… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
"Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing that you deserve better and working towards it."

-Vex King, Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness

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11. 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

By: Jay Shetty

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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12. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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13. Women Don't Owe You Pretty

By: Florence Given

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to...love sex, hate sexism,protect your goddamn energy,lif… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Promise yourself to stop buying into people’s potential. You’re not a start-up investor."

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

"Imagine all of the past versions of yourself, standing right in front of you. They are all smiling, looking back at you. They are so proud of you."

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

"Up until now we have been bombarded with the same stories that either make us subconsciously hate ourselves or hate others. It’s time to change the narrative, and the power lies in your hands. Consum…"

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

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14. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

By: Melody Beattie

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
"We work it out, or live it out."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

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15. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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16. Expectation

By: Anna Hope

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant… read more

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"They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. …"

-Anna Hope, Expectation

"Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the ba…"

-Anna Hope, Expectation

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17. Think Like a Monk

By: Jay Shetty

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wis… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
"When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time."

-Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk

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18. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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19. The Last Paper Crane

By: Kerry Drewery

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One thousand paper cranes to achieve your heart’s desire. 1945, Hiroshima: Ichiro is a teenage b… read more

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20. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

By: Angela Saini

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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22. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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23. All The Young Men

By: Ruth Coker Burks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more

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  • nonfiction
"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

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24. The Unexpected Joy of Being Single

By: Catherine Gray

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Single in your late twenties or, hold the phone, in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You're in the r… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
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25. Lunar Living: Working with the Magic of the Moon Cycles

By: Kirsty Gallagher

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Your book is absolutely amazing, Kirsty. You're one of the best 10 gue… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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26. A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century

By: Gelong Thubten

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness for the Modern Day In our never-ending search for happines… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
"Is there a difference between meditation and mindfulness? In modern times, meditation has in some way been rebranded as mindfulness to make it more accessible from a deeper perspective when, in fact,…"

-Gelong Thubten, A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century

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27. To Battersea Park

By: Philip Hensher

3.12

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and begu… read more

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28. The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

By: Catherine Gray

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Learning how to be exalted by the everyday is the most important lesson we can possibly learn. In C… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • mental health
"The overwhelming and inevitable life-lean towards the ordinary is why true deep-pile contentment is found when you re-enchant the everyday."

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

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29. A Single Revolution: Don't look for a match. Light one.

By: Shani Silver

4.09

Format: None pages, ebook

Shani Silver is not an advocate for singlehood. She’s an advocate for single women feeling good whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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30. 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

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  • nonfiction
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31. Alonement: How to be alone and absolutely own it

By: Francesca Specter

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

How to be alone and absolutely own it, by founder of the Alonement blog and podcast, Francesca Spec… read more

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  • self help
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  • personal development
  • mental health

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The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

Michael A. Singer

3.38

Transform Your Habits

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Brené Brown

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Gary Keller , Jay Papasan

3.16

Transform Your Habits

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM

Hal Elrod

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Brené Brown

5.00

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Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

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