18 books like Rewriting the Rules

What to read after Rewriting the Rules — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Leaving the enchanted forest Stephanie Covington · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This is a clear, practical guide for anyone interested in developing healthy relationships. In addition to discussing the roles and impacts of family and society on relationships, Leaving the Enchanted Forest provides ten stepping-stones to intimacy (e.g., values, communication, boundaries, and quality time). Using richly detailed examples, suggestions, and exercises for self-exploration, this… Shares: Intimacy, Love, Interpersonal relations, Psychology

Girlhood Carolyn Hays · 2022 · ★ 4.2 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this knock, this threat, that began the family's journey out of the Bible Belt but never far from the hate and fear… Shares: Gender Identity, Sex

On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan · 2007 · ★ 3.6 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and… Shares: Intimacy, Romance & Relationships

Psychopathia sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing · 1886 · ★ 3.9 · 617p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Deviant sex behavior with special emphasis on the medico/legal aspects. A study for physicians and lawyers. 16th and 17th completely revised edition. Shares: Sex, Love, Psychology

My Mother/My self Nancy Friday · 1977 · ★ 3.7 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate My Mother/My Self examines the first, most lasting--and most crucial--time of every woman's life, and shows how, in all the passages of a woman's life--with men, with other women, on the job, and with her own daughters--every woman can begin to change the childhood patterns of the mother/daughter bond, and become the vital, independent, fully sexual woman she wants to be. Shares: Sex, Love, Psychology

Take Control of Your Life Gail Ratcliffe · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Why am I unhappy? How can I start living the life I want? What will make me happier?'Take Control of Your Life' answers questions such as these. The author, internationally recognised psychologist Dr Gail Ratcliffe, suggests that the first step is to identify what is out of balance in your life. She maintains that everyone's life is in some way or another affected by stress, and that recognising… Shares: Self-help techniques, Psychology

Follow your heart Andrew Matthews · 1997 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The concepts in this book ring true with practical, applicable advice, and Matthews's lucid writing and witty stories help bring his message into sharp focus. Follow Your Heart is everything you could ask for in a self-help book. It is about doing what you love, dealing with bills and disasters, discovering your own power, and finding peace of mind. Start down the road to changing your life… Shares: Self-help techniques, Psychology

Fantasia of the unconscious D. H. Lawrence · 1922 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This is novel book. Let us start by making a little apology to Psychoanalysis. It wasn't fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious; or perhaps it was fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious, which is truly a negative quantity and an unpleasant menagerie. What was really not fair was to jeer at Psychoanalysis as if Freud had invented and described nothing but an unconscious, in all his… Shares: Sex, Psychology

Life, and how to survive it Robin Skynner · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Life and How To Survive It is a self help psychology book written in a conversational form, with Cleese asking questions about relationships, and his therapist Skynner answering them. Shares: Self-help techniques, Interpersonal relations, Psychology

50 Self-Help Classics Tom Butler-Bowdon · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Explore the life-changing ideas and words of some of our deepest thinkers, teachers, and sages.A brand new updated edition of the only book to distill the classic, life-chaging texts on happiness and fulfilment. New chapters include The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and The Power of Habit. Thousands of books have been written offering the 'secrets' to personal… Shares: Self-help techniques, Psychology

The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 543p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder:… Shares: Sex, Love

Terms of Service Tina Horn · 2021 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Popular creator TINA HORN continues her cyberpunk thriller SFSX (SAFE SEX), teaming up with up-and-coming artist G. ROMERO-JOHNSTON for the latest volume of this sexy adventure comic. After their previous adventures in sex, love, and torture left them separated and traumatized, the Dirty Mind heroes must face the totalitarian Party’s latest "social program"—one involving uncanny sexpots and a… Shares: Sex, Love

Nunquam Lawrence Durrell · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A desperate scientist's mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.   The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell's Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally… Shares: Social aspects, Romance & Relationships

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum. Shares: Psychology

Voices Staroba · 2015 Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors. Shares: Psychology

The principles of psychology William James · 1890 · ★ 3.9 · 897p · ≈ 29h · Demanding The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890. There were four methods in James' psychology: analysis (i.e. the logical criticism of precursor and contemporary views of the mind), introspection (i.e. the psychologist's study of his own states of mind), experiment (e.g. in hypnosis or neurology), and comparison (the… Shares: Psychology

Psychology Saundra K. Ciccarelli · 2006 · ★ 3.2 · 792p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.https://www.apa.org/support/about-apa Frequently asked questions about APA] Retrieved on November 28th, 2023. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of broad scope,… Shares: Psychology

Somehow Anne Lamott · 2024 · ★ 3.9 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to… Shares: Psychology

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