13 Top self help books like The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

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The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar…

"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

If you liked the self help plot in The Comfort Book by Matt Haig , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

By: Brianna Wiest

3.76

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writi… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Wiest's 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Hold yourself to your standard."

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life."

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too"

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler"

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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2. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader

By: Chi-Young Kim , Haemin Sunim , Youngcheol Lee

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in ou… read more

Similar categories in Chi-Young Kim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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4. The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Comfort Book book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives"

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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5. The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

By: Brianna Wiest

4.09

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Wiest's The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"No wonder why we build our own cages and stay in them, even though there's no lock on the door."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"Arrive into the present. There is a saying that if you are anxious, it's because you are living in the future. And if you are depressed, it's because you are living in the past. When you are living i…"

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

Cover of What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry

6. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Bruce D. Perry

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more

Similar categories in Bruce D. Perry's What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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8. Söyleme Bilmesinler

By: Şermin Yaşar

4.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

“Yalansızız artık. Hâlâ birkaç sırrımız var. Ama yalansızız.” Evlenip aynı çatı altında yaşıyorl… read more

Similar categories in Şermin Yaşar's Söyleme Bilmesinler book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • audiobook
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9. Behice'nin Yarım Kalan İşleri

By: Sinem Sal

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

“GÜL AĞACINI BEN ALABİLİR MİYİM?” Dün gece sabaha karşı annem öldü. Mutsuzluktan değil ama mutsu… read more

Similar categories in Sinem Sal's Behice'nin Yarım Kalan İşleri book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • audiobook
Cover of Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King

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

Similar categories in Vex King's Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • inspirational
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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. 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

Similar categories in Julie Smith's Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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12. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

By: Hwang Bo-Reum

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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13. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Davis's How to Keep House While Drowning book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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14. Rezonans Kanunu

By: Pierre Franckh

4.02

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Size hep ulaşılmaz görünen mutlu anları özlüyorsunuz. Evrendeki sonsuz zenginliğin bir parçası olma… read more

Similar categories in Pierre Franckh's Rezonans Kanunu book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar by Melisa Kesmez

15. Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar

By: Melisa Kesmez

4.34

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

“Toprak ayağımızın altında yumuşacık, kırmızı. Bacaklarımızı ısıran dikenlere aldırmıyoruz. Çalılar… read more

Similar categories in Melisa Kesmez's Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • audiobook
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16. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

By: Charlie Mackesy

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important l… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • philosophy
  • self help
"I'm so small,"

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"I'm so small."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"The greatest illusion," said the mole, "is that life should be perfect."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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17. Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

By: Aylin Balboa

4.18

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

“Öyle işte. Hâlâ biraz soğuk geliyor ama battıkça alışıyorum. Kendimi boşa aldım bayırdan aşağı ko… read more

Similar categories in Aylin Balboa's Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • audiobook
Cover of Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

18. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.69

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a c… read more

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thank you, for the honor of having you."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"Negativity is food for malady, one might say."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"She wanted to do things without having to worry what others thought. She simply lived for her freedom."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"With the coffee in front of her, she closed her eyes, and inhaled deeply. It was her moment of happiness."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Cover of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki by Baek Se-hee

19. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • self help
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Cover of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

20. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

By: Michiko Aoyama

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Matt Haig's The Comfort Book

  • adult
  • audiobook

6 must-read adult books like The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort Book

Matt Haig

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum

4.02

Transform Your Habits

How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.69

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20 Top audiobook books like Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin

3.72

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