Books like Eat, Pray, Love

If you liked Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, self help.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, travel.

    Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.

  3. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  4. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, self help.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  5. The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle · 1997

    Because shares tags: spirituality, self help.

    Tolle argues pain comes from mind chatter and peace from full attention to now.

  6. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

    Marie Kondo · 2011

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, self help.

    Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.

  7. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  8. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.

  9. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…

  10. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.

  11. Everything I Know About Love

    Dolly Alderton · 2018

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.

  12. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.

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