20 must-read nonfiction books like The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler

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The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World

By: Bruce Feiler

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Find work you love. On your own terms. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life Is in t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness

By: None , Mark Epstein

4.04

Format: 226 pages,

For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego… 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
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • 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

Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

3. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"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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4. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • self help
  • mental health
  • 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

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6. The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

By: Seth Godin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A soulful re-envisioning of what work and leadership can be, from the visionary mind of renowned au… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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7. The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World

By: Bruce Feiler

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Find work you love. On your own terms. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life Is in t… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Feiler's The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World book and Bruce Feiler's The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World

  • cultural
  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter

8. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

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  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

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9. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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10. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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11. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Cover of The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton

12. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris J. Anderson

13. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age by Chip Conley

14. Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age

By: Chip Conley

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy “reminds us all t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing by Pete      Davis

15. Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

By: Pete Davis

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A profoundly inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment and civic engagement … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • self help
Cover of It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life by Sara Kuburic

16. It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life

By: Sara Kuburic

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From an existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and Instagram's popular "Millennial Thera… read more

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  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference by Guy Kawasaki

17. Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference

By: Guy Kawasaki

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to make a difference to just one life, or the world, by embracing what makes people remar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney

18. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

By: Timothy P. Carney

4.09

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the sa… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work by Joanne Lipman

19. Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work

By: Joanne Lipman

3.70

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

The ultimate guide to mastering change and successfully reinventing how you live, work, and lead “… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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20. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough" by Manisha Thakor

21. MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough"

By: Manisha Thakor

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A leading financial expert breaks down the personal, cultural, and societal forces that have led us… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

19 Best audiobook books like The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler

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

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Sharon Brous

4.54

Transform Your Habits

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

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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19 Top audiobook books like The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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