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Books like Burnout
The best books like Burnout are The Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, and Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski is about stress and recovery, emotional physiology, gender and expectations. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Upside of Stress
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Kelly McGonigal · Health
The Upside of Stress is Kelly McGonigal's evidence-based argument that the harm of stress is mediated less by stress itself than by the belief that stress is harmful.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Why We Sleep
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Matthew Walker · Science
Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte · Self-help
Overwhelmed is Washington Post journalist Brigid Schulte's investigation into why so many people — particularly women with children — feel perpetually time-starved in an era when labor-saving technology is more abundant than at any point in history.
A kindred health read.
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- Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · Science
Rest makes a case that most of what we think of as productive work is actually counterproductive when pushed past certain thresholds, and that deliberate, well-structured rest is not the opposite of work but a necessary component of it.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - The Power of Full Engagement
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Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz · Self-help
The Power of Full Engagement starts from a simple reframe: time is fixed, but energy is not.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Intuitive Eating
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Evelyn Tribole · Health
Intuitive Eating, first published in 1995 and now in its fourth edition, is registered dietitian Evelyn Tribole's framework for disengaging from diet culture and relearning to eat in response to hunger and satiety rather than external rules.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - Peak Performance
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Brad Stulberg · Health
Peak Performance is Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness's synthesis of performance science across domains — athletics, science, art, and business.
Both dig into stress and recovery.
Read the summary → - The Primal Blueprint
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Mark Sisson · Health
The Primal Blueprint is Mark Sisson's framework for applying evolutionary logic to every major lifestyle domain: what to eat, how to exercise, how to sleep, how to manage stress, and how to play.
Both dig into stress and recovery.
Read the summary → - Radical Acceptance
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Tara Brach · Religion & Spirituality
Tara Brach, a psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher, wrote Radical Acceptance as a response to what she calls the trance of unworthiness — the pervasive background feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with us, that we are not enough.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Kristin Neff · Psychology
Kristin Neff makes a claim that many readers initially resist: treating yourself with the same kindness you'd offer a good friend in distress is not self-indulgence, weakness, or an obstacle to high performance.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - The Compassionate Mind
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Paul Gilbert · Psychology
The Compassionate Mind is Paul Gilbert's comprehensive account of Compassion Focused Therapy, the approach he developed over decades of clinical work with people whose suffering was heavily compounded by shame, self-criticism, and an inability to feel comforted or to comfort themselves.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - The Gifts of Imperfection
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Brené Brown · Self-help
The Gifts of Imperfection is Brené Brown's attempt to translate a decade of qualitative research on shame, vulnerability, and belonging into practical guidance for everyday life.
Both dig into self-compassion.
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Books like Burnout: quick answers
What are the best books like Burnout?
The best books like Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski are The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Burnout, such as stress and recovery, emotional physiology, gender and expectations.
What should I read after Burnout?
A natural next read after Burnout is The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal. A kindred health read. Other strong choices are Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.
What books are similar to Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski?
Burnout centers on stress and recovery, emotional physiology, gender and expectations. Books with a similar feel include The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
