8 Top nonfiction books like Reclaiming by Yewande Biala

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Reclaiming

By: Yewande Biala

3.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

I am more than enough, and I am perfect with all my imperfections. In 2021, Yewande Biala wrote …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Reclaiming by Yewande Biala , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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2. When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

By: Brianna Wiest

4.26

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sud… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life contracts before it expands, and pulls back before it leaps forward. This balancing act is not something we should resist, but rather, embrace."

-Brianna Wiest, When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

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3. Queenie

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.86

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more

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"Never trust a gemini man"

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

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4. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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5. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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6. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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7. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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8. Adults

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

3.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool mag… read more

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9. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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10. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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11. 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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12. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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13. Hits Different

By: Tasha Ghouri

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

DISCOVER YOUR BOOK OF THE SUMMER FROM TASHA GHOURI, LOVE ISLAND STAR AND DISABILITY CAMPAIGNER! Cas… read more

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14. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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16. Letters of Note: Love

By: Shaun Usher

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Ayn Rand glimpse the ardors of artist… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking

By: Marianne Eloise

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder Obsessive was, sti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful

By: Fearne Cotton

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

How to make small changes to feel better, even when under stress.Stress is a normal part of life, b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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20. Reclaiming

By: Yewande Biala

3.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

I am more than enough, and I am perfect with all my imperfections. In 2021, Yewande Biala wrote … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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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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  • nonfiction

12 Top audiobook books like When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest

Transform Your Habits

When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

Brianna Wiest

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Everything You’ll Ever Need: You Can Find Within Yourself

Charlotte Freeman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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

Vex King

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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

Jay Shetty

3.93

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