The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me…
Want to Read $ 14.99If you liked the personal development plot in The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- 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
2. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Charles Duhigg's Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- 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
3. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- audiobook
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
4. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
By: Marisa G. Franco
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
5. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- adult
- queer
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- 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
7. Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
By: Julie Schwartz Gottman
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's al… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Julie Schwartz Gottman's Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- audiobook
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
9. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- self help
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- sociology
- 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
10. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- audiobook
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- sociology
- queer
11. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
By: Kat Vellos
3.90
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Have you recently moved to a new city and are struggling to make friends? Do you find yourself co… read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in Kat Vellos's We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
13. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar 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 Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
15. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- adult
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
16. Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships
By: Danielle Bayard Jackson
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why do women's friendships feel complicated? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson … read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Danielle Bayard Jackson's Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections
By: Anna Goldfarb
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the “New York Times friendship correspondent,” a definitive step-by-step guide to understandin… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Anna Goldfarb's Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- audiobook
- relationships
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
18. F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story
By: Damona Hoffman
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
From a popular dating coach and podcast host, a guide to dismantling the myths that get in the way … read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Damona Hoffman's F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- nonfiction
- self help
19. Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life
By: Bella DePaulo
4.03
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
From acclaimed social scientist Dr. Bella DePaulo, the leading expert on single life, comes groundb… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Bella DePaulo's Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
20. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.58
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- audiobook
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
21. Solo: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own
By: Peter McGraw
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Join the movement that celebrates single living with Peter McGraw’s groundbreaking book, Solo. A… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Peter McGraw's Solo: Building a Remarkable Life of Your Own book and Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- relationships
- nonfiction
- self help
- mental health
