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Books like Lost Connections
The best books like Lost Connections are The Noonday Demon, The Depression Cure, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. Lost Connections by Johann Hari is about depression, social connection, mental health. 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 Noonday Demon
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Andrew Solomon · Health
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon's exhaustive, literary account of depression — his own experience of it, its science and treatment history, its cultural and political dimensions, and the lives of people living with it across the world.
Shares depression and mental health with Lost Connections.
Read the summary → - The Depression Cure
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Stephen Ilardi · Health
The Depression Cure is Stephen Ilardi's account of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC), a structured program he developed at the University of Kansas for treating depression without primary reliance on antidepressants.
Shares depression and mental health with Lost Connections.
Read the summary → - Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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Robert M. Sapolsky · Health
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers is Robert Sapolsky's definitive popular account of the biology of stress.
A kindred health read.
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- Spark
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John J. Ratey · Health
Spark is John Ratey's argument, grounded in neuroscience, that aerobic exercise is the single most powerful thing most people can do for their brain.
Both dig into mental health.
Read the summary → - An Unquiet Mind
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Kay Redfield Jamison · Psychology
Kay Redfield Jamison is a psychiatrist and professor who has manic-depressive illness.
Both dig into mental health.
Read the summary → - Reasons to Stay Alive
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Matt Haig · Memoir
Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt Haig's account of the severe depression and anxiety disorder he experienced in his mid-twenties, and how he survived it, returned to functioning, and eventually to something he could call a good life.
Shares depression and mental health with Lost Connections.
Read the summary → - The Mindful Way Through Depression
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The Mindful Way Through Depression
Mark Williams · Health
The Mindful Way Through Depression is a clinical self-help book by four researchers — Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn — who developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a treatment program with strong evidence for reducing depression relapse.
Both dig into depression.
Read the summary → - The Myth of Normal
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Gabor Maté · Health
The Myth of Normal is Gabor Maté's most ambitious book, co-written with his son Daniel Maté.
Both dig into mental health.
Read the summary → - The UltraMind Solution
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Mark Hyman · Health
The UltraMind Solution is Mark Hyman's argument that most mental and cognitive problems — depression, anxiety, ADHD, brain fog, memory decline — are not primarily psychiatric disorders but symptoms of underlying physical imbalances.
Both dig into mental health.
Read the summary → - Born to Run
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Bruce Springsteen · Memoir
Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is among the most substantive rock memoirs written, in part because Springsteen is a better prose writer than his public image suggests and in part because he chose to write about the things that actually shaped him rather than the things that made him famous.
Both dig into depression.
Read the summary → - Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Randolph M. Nesse · Psychology
Randolph Nesse spent forty years as a psychiatrist and evolutionary biologist asking a question most of his colleagues found strange: why did natural selection leave us so vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and other forms of suffering?
Both dig into mental health.
Read the summary → - How to Change Your Mind
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Michael Pollan · Science
Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late in life, as a skeptic.
Both dig into mental health.
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Books like Lost Connections: quick answers
What are the best books like Lost Connections?
The best books like Lost Connections by Johann Hari are The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Spark by John J. Ratey, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Lost Connections, such as depression, social connection, mental health.
What should I read after Lost Connections?
A natural next read after Lost Connections is The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon. Shares depression and mental health with Lost Connections. Other strong choices are The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Spark by John J. Ratey.
What books are similar to Lost Connections by Johann Hari?
Lost Connections centers on depression, social connection, mental health. Books with a similar feel include The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Spark by John J. Ratey, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
