16 must-read nonfiction books like The Maps We Carry by Rose Cartwright

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The Maps We Carry

By: Rose Cartwright

4.46

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Maps We Carry by Rose Cartwright , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more

Similar categories in Judith Lewis Herman's Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror book and Rose Cartwright's The Maps We Carry

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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2. The Secret Teachings of All Ages

By: Manly P. Hall , J. Augustus Knapp

4.43

Format: 230 pages,

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  • nonfiction

3. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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4. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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5. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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6. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

By: Pete Wharmby

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."

-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

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8. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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9. Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

By: Jenn Granneman

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting look at a long-undervalued yet hugely beneficial personality trait, from the cr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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10. Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

By: Janina Fisher

4.53

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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11. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By: Louise Perry

4.28

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

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12. Having and Being Had

By: Eula Biss

3.83

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Art unmakes the world made by work."

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

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13. Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

By: Lucy Foulkes

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe univer… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"There isn’t a clear boundary between the everyday and the pathological."

-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

"Grief is the price we pay for love, the saying goes; I would add that all forms of psychological distress are the price we pay for being alive. Suffering is part of being human."

-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

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14. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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15. Guilty by Definition

By: Susie Dent

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent. … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

16. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton

18. Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

By: Alice Loxton

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian'Loxton is the next big thing in history' – Dan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Maps We Carry

By: Rose Cartwright

4.46

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman

20. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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21. I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have ha… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health

16 Top audiobook books like The Maps We Carry by Rose Cartwright

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

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19 Best fiction books like Liars by Sarah Manguso

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Bear

Julia Phillips

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

4.00

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