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Books like Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

12 books with a reading profile close to Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness. Practical, inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

by Ali Wong

Also practical and inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Ali Wong structures this memoir as a series of letters addressed to her two young daughters, intended for them to read as adults.
2

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Dolly Alderton chronicles her emergence into adulthood through a series of personal vignettes, recipes, and satirical emails.
3

Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

by Glennon Doyle

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Glennon Doyle Melton shares a series of essays detailing her transition from a life defined by bulimia and alcoholism to one centered on motherhood and faith.
4

What I Know for Sure

by Oprah Winfrey

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Oprah Winfrey collects essays, many drawn from her monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine.
5

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

by Jessica Pan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Jessica Pan, a dedicated introvert who preferred domestic seclusion to social engagement, decided to spend a year acting as an extrovert to see how it changed her life.
6

Dear Dolly

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Dear Dolly catalogs a collection of columns from the author’s tenure as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times Style magazine.
7

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

In this follow-up to her autobiography, Michelle Obama outlines the specific habits and mental attitudes she uses to navigate periods of political and personal instability.
8

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

by Cait Flanders

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Cait Flanders documents her twelve-month experiment of abstaining from all non-essential consumer purchases.
9

Year of Yes

by Shonda Rhimes

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Shonda Rhimes begins this memoir with a realization: despite her professional success creating hit television shows, she spent most of her private life avoiding challenges due to social anxiety and a fear of being seen.
10

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert faced a debilitating realization that her stable marriage and career did not provide the fulfillment she expected.
11

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

After receiving a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch delivered a final presentation titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
12

Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Matthew McConaughey presents a collection of stories and life filters derived from thirty-six years of his personal diaries.

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