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Books like Sleep Smarter
The best books like Sleep Smarter are Why We Sleep, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, and The Power of Full Engagement. Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson is about sleep, recovery, circadian rhythm. 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.
- 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.
Shares sleep and performance with Sleep Smarter.
Read the summary → - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor · Science
Breath is James Nestor's investigation into one of the most basic and overlooked aspects of human health: how we inhale and exhale.
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.
Shares recovery and performance with Sleep Smarter.
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- Atomic Habits
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James Clear · Self-help
Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - The Circadian Code
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Satchin Panda · Health
Satchin Panda is a professor at the Salk Institute and one of the leading researchers in circadian biology — the science of how biological processes in every cell follow a roughly 24-hour clock.
Shares sleep and circadian rhythm with Sleep Smarter.
Read the summary → - 80/20 Running
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Matt Fitzgerald · Health
80/20 Running is Matt Fitzgerald's evidence-based argument that the most common mistake recreational runners make is training too hard, too often.
Both dig into performance.
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 performance.
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 recovery.
Read the summary → - The Sleep Revolution
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Arianna Huffington · Health
Arianna Huffington opens The Sleep Revolution with the incident that prompted it: collapsing from exhaustion at her desk in 2007, breaking her cheekbone on the way down.
Both dig into sleep.
Read the summary → - A Beautiful Mind
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Sylvia Nasar · Biography
Sylvia Nasar's biography of the mathematician John Nash — Nobel laureate, game theory pioneer, and paranoid schizophrenic — is one of the finest accounts of genius and mental illness in biographical literature.
Both dig into recovery.
Read the summary → - Adult Children of Alcoholics
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Janet G. Woititz · Psychology
Adult Children of Alcoholics is Janet Woititz's clinical guide to the lasting psychological patterns that develop in children raised in alcoholic families.
Both dig into recovery.
Read the summary → - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff · Memoir
Beautiful Boy is David Sheff's account of watching his son Nic become addicted to methamphetamine through his late teens and early twenties, and of the years Sheff spent trying to understand it, respond to it, and survive it as a parent.
Both dig into recovery.
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Books like Sleep Smarter: quick answers
What are the best books like Sleep Smarter?
The best books like Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson are Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor, The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Sleep Smarter, such as sleep, recovery, circadian rhythm.
What should I read after Sleep Smarter?
A natural next read after Sleep Smarter is Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Shares sleep and performance with Sleep Smarter. Other strong choices are Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor, The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Atomic Habits by James Clear.
What books are similar to Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson?
Sleep Smarter centers on sleep, recovery, circadian rhythm. Books with a similar feel include Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor, The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
