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Books like Year of Yes

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes is about saying yes, introversion, professional ambition. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Yes Please
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    Yes Please

    Amy Poehler · Memoir

    Yes Please is Amy Poehler's memoir-ish collection of essays about her life, career, and the things she's figured out along the way.

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  2. Becoming
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    Becoming

    Michelle Obama · Memoir

    Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.

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  3. Daring Greatly
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    Daring Greatly

    Brené Brown · Health

    Daring Greatly is Brené Brown's argument, drawn from twelve years of qualitative research on shame and vulnerability, that the willingness to show up without guarantees — to be seen, to risk failure, to remain open in the presence of uncertainty — is not weakness but the foundation of courage, connection, and meaningful achievement.

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  4. Big Magic
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    Big Magic

    Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help

    Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.

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  5. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    Trevor Noah · Memoir

    Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.

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  6. 10% Happier
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    10% Happier

    Dan Harris · Memoir

    10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

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