14 must-read self help books like Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte…

"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its shape, but it's always there. The task is to recognize it in its new form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

If you liked the self help plot in Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

By: None

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on … read more

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

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Rubin's Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World book and Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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5. 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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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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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6. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.84

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

Similar categories in Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole book and Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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8. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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9. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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10. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

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  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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12. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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13. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

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  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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14. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

16. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

By: Dacher Keltner

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
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17. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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18. 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
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"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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19. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By: Michelle Obama

4.27

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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20. The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Martha N. Beck

4.17

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “ integrity ”— needed now … read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook

19 best-selling audiobook books like Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

Transform Your Habits

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David Brooks

4.14

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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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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4.05

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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