Books like This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
12 books with a reading profile close to This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike. by Augusten Burroughs. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
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.
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Dear Dolly
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Dear Dolly catalogs a collection of columns from the author’s tenure as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times Style magazine.
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Eat, Pray, Love
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert faced a debilitating realization that her stable marriage and career did not provide the fulfillment she expected.
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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
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Cait Flanders documents her twelve-month experiment of abstaining from all non-essential consumer purchases.
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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Shauna Niequist documents her transition from a life of constant performance and exhaustion to one rooted in stillness and connection.
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
by Maggie Smith
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Maggie Smith uses a nonlinear structure of vignettes to document the collapse of her marriage following the discovery of her husband’s infidelity.
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Dry
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir
Following his success in the Manhattan advertising world, Augusten Burroughs faces an ultimatum from his employers: attend rehabilitation or lose his job.
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These Precious Days: Essays
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Ann Patchett examines the unexpected connections and daily rituals that define a creative life.
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Year of Yes
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
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.
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
After filmmakers approached Donald Miller to adapt his memoir into a movie, he discovered that his actual life lacked the necessary structure for a functional screenplay.
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Ann Patchett organizes this collection of essays around the tethering forces of commitment and steady work.
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Cheryl Strayed compiles a series of anonymous advice columns written under the pseudonym Sugar, originally published on the website The Rumpus.
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