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The Highly Intuitive Child: A Guide to Understanding and Parenting Unusually Sensitive and Empathic Children

10 best books like The Highly Intuitive Child: A Guide to Understanding and Parenting Unusually Sensitive and Empathic Children (Catherine Crawford): Portnoy's Complaint, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, Jesus' Son, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Pond, My Friend Anna, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Portnoy's Complaint
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0099399016
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon...
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
AuthorT Kira Madden
ISBN1635571855
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant...
Jesus' Son
AuthorDenis Johnson
ISBN0060975776
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
AuthorJudith Levine
ISBN0743269365
Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year.

Without...
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
AuthorJean M. Twenge
ISBN1416575987
Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's why five times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years ago. It's the value that parents...
Pond
AuthorClaire-Louise Bennett
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted...
My Friend Anna
AuthorRachel DeLoache Williams
ISBN1982114096
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams is a 2019 Gallery Books publication.

Several weeks ago, this book popped up on my radar by way of Book Riot. I seem to be on a true crime kick lately, so I checked the book out from the cloud library. Although it hardly lives up to the gushing hype, the story...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0060920084
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'

And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
AuthorAlice Miller
ISBN0465016901
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
AuthorAlain de Botton
ISBN0679779159
Words Are Your Homeland

One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...
A Man Without a Country
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this era—or any era—holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. Whether he is describing his coming of age in America, his formative war experiences,...
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
AuthorDavid Brooks
ISBN0684853787
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses,...
The Emperor's Children
AuthorClaire Messud
From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of...
The Road to Character
AuthorDavid Brooks
“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it.”—David Brooks
 
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times...
Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
AuthorRachel Kadish
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy famously wrote, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This celebrated maxim seems questionable at best to literature professor Tracy Farber. If Tolstoy is to be taken at his word, only unhappiness is interesting; happiness is...
Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House
AuthorMolly Dillon
ISBN1984848453
Return to President Obama’s White House in this anthology for young women by young women, featuring stories from ten inspiring junior staffers who joined his administration right out of college with the hope of making a difference.

Meet ten amazing young women who were so inspired by Barack...
iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
AuthorJean M. Twenge
ISBN1501151983
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation...
Overcoming Life's Disappointments
AuthorHarold S. Kushner
ISBN1400040574
From Harold S. Kushner, the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People, "a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don't turn out as we had hoped--that is, how we can overcome life's disappointments.
Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of...
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
AuthorJean M. Twenge
ISBN0743276981
Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" -- those born in...
No Happy Endings
AuthorNora McInerny Purmort
ISBN0062792407
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.

Life has...
Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
AuthorRonald W. Dworkin
ISBN0786719338
This book appeals to my beliefs. Dworkin, a scholar at the right leaning Hudson Institute and anesthesiologist, writes about dealing with unhappiness. His point is that unhappiness can be a valuable emotion that makes us alter our present state to obtain happiness. Get a divorce, change your job,...
A Happy Marriage
AuthorRafael Yglesias
ISBN1439102309
A stunningly candid and revelatory love story by an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter whose return to fiction after a long hiatus will be heralded by critics and readers.In the 1970s Yglesias’s first novels, written while he was a teenager, were hailed by critics as the arrival of a young American ...
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