19 best-selling nonfiction books like On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen

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Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• feminism
• nonfiction
• history
• audiobook

"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• audiobook
• personal development
• history
• feminism
• gender
• psychology
• nonfiction
• womens
• adult
• self help

"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Similar categories in Arthur C. Brooks's Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• self help
• personal development
• psychology
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Similar categories in Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Heather Radke's Butts: A Backstory book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• audiobook

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• nonfiction
• psychology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• nonfiction
• history
• 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

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• self help
• psychology
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• audiobook
• nonfiction
• psychology
• self help

"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• adult
• nonfiction
• psychology
• audiobook

"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• feminism
• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• feminism
• adult
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• feminism
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elizabeth Comen's All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• audiobook
• history
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens
• self help

"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Similar categories in Kara Loewentheil's Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head—and How to Get It Out book and Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

• personal development
• feminism
• psychology
• nonfiction
• self help