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The Authenticity Project

by Clare Pooley • 2020

An artist's notebook confession sparks a chain of honesty among six lonely strangers in London.

3.93

100k+

🫂 Found Family 📓 Anonymous Confessions 💔 Hidden Loneliness 🩹 Addiction Recovery ☕ Cozy Café Setting

The Authenticity Project

An artist's notebook confession sparks a chain of honesty among six lonely strangers in London.

by Clare Pooley 2020 400 pages

3.93

100k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 📓 Anonymous Confessions 💔 Hidden Loneliness 🩹 Addiction Recovery ☕ Cozy Café Setting

Mariner

by Malcolm Guite • 2017

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner foretold his own descent into opium and his hard-won return.

4.59

145

🎭 Romantic Poetry 📖 Literary Biography 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🙏 Spiritual Biography ✨ Imagination And Faith

Mariner

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner foretold his own descent into opium and his hard-won return.

by Malcolm Guite 2017 471 pages

4.59

145 ratings

🎭 Romantic Poetry 📖 Literary Biography 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🙏 Spiritual Biography ✨ Imagination And Faith

Someday Never Came

by Autumn Lawrence-Barnette • 2024

Midnight text pulls her back to a beach town and a soldier fighting a war within.

4.03

2k+

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🪖 Military Romance 💔 Tragic Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero ✉️ Love Letters

Someday Never Came

Midnight text pulls her back to a beach town and a soldier fighting a war within.

by Autumn Lawrence-Barnette 2024 263 pages

4.03

2k+ ratings

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🪖 Military Romance 💔 Tragic Romance 🩹 Wounded Hero ✉️ Love Letters

Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams

by Ashley James • 2023

At his girlfriend's funeral, a rebel can't hide his forbidden feelings for her uncle.

4.14

500+

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏘️ Small Town Escape 🩹 Trauma Healing

Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams

At his girlfriend's funeral, a rebel can't hide his forbidden feelings for her uncle.

by Ashley James 2023 377 pages

4.14

500+ ratings

🔄 Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏘️ Small Town Escape 🩹 Trauma Healing

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38k+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

Big Sur

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

by Jack Kerouac 1962 256 pages

3.83

38k+ ratings

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain

by Claire Wilcox • 2025

Your brain hijacked by engineered food. A neuroscience-based blueprint to break the cycle for good.

3.99

🍔 Food Addiction 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Neuroscience Of Eating 💔 Emotional Eating 🌊 Craving Management

Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain

Your brain hijacked by engineered food. A neuroscience-based blueprint to break the cycle for good.

by Claire Wilcox 2025 176 pages

3.99

80 ratings

🍔 Food Addiction 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Neuroscience Of Eating 💔 Emotional Eating 🌊 Craving Management

Stoppen met roken

by Allen Carr • 2015

Quit smoking without grit: the counterintuitive method that starts by letting you keep smoking.

4.04

140

🚭 Smoking Cessation 🔄 Addiction Recovery 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🔬 Psychology Of Addiction 💡 Willpower Skepticism

Stoppen met roken

Quit smoking without grit: the counterintuitive method that starts by letting you keep smoking.

by Allen Carr 2015 215 pages

4.04

140 ratings

🚭 Smoking Cessation 🔄 Addiction Recovery 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🔬 Psychology Of Addiction 💡 Willpower Skepticism

The Women Behind the Door

by Roddy Doyle • 2024

A recovering alcoholic in pandemic Dublin opens her door to find her capable daughter falling apart.

3.48

1k+

🖤 Generational Trauma 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🍵 Recovering Alcoholic 😷 Covid Pandemic 🇮🇪 Contemporary Dublin

The Women Behind the Door

A recovering alcoholic in pandemic Dublin opens her door to find her capable daughter falling apart.

by Roddy Doyle 2024 272 pages

3.48

1k+ ratings

🖤 Generational Trauma 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🍵 Recovering Alcoholic 😷 Covid Pandemic 🇮🇪 Contemporary Dublin

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children

by Allison Bottke • 2008

Six faith-based steps to stop enabling your adult child, end the chaos, and reclaim your sanity.

4.16

500+

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Adult Children 🚧 Family Boundaries 🆘 Enabling Behaviors 🙏 Faith-Based Recovery ✝️ Christian Parenting

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children

Six faith-based steps to stop enabling your adult child, end the chaos, and reclaim your sanity.

by Allison Bottke 2008 224 pages

4.16

500+ ratings

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Adult Children 🚧 Family Boundaries 🆘 Enabling Behaviors 🙏 Faith-Based Recovery ✝️ Christian Parenting

Working with High-Risk Youth

by Peter Smyth • 2017

The framework that replaces punishment with trust, and why it works when nothing else does.

🏛️ Child Welfare 🩹 Trauma-Informed Care 🩺 Harm Reduction 🔗 Attachment Theory 💪 Strength-Based Practice

Working with High-Risk Youth

The framework that replaces punishment with trust, and why it works when nothing else does.

by Peter Smyth 2017 230 pages

🏛️ Child Welfare 🩹 Trauma-Informed Care 🩺 Harm Reduction 🔗 Attachment Theory 💪 Strength-Based Practice

Digitale Demenz. Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen

by Manfred Spitzer • 2012

Screen time shrinks the brain’s capacity for deep focus, trading it for permanent distraction.

3.70

1k+

🧠 Neuroplasticity 📱 Screen Time Effects 👨‍👩‍👧 Digital Age Parenting 📖 Deep Reading 💔 Social Media Harms

Digitale Demenz. Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen

Screen time shrinks the brain’s capacity for deep focus, trading it for permanent distraction.

by Manfred Spitzer 2012 368 pages

3.70

1k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 📱 Screen Time Effects 👨‍👩‍👧 Digital Age Parenting 📖 Deep Reading 💔 Social Media Harms

Video Game Addiction

by Henry Lee • 2014

Sell the console, delete the accounts, identify your triggers. A plan for quitting gaming for good.

4.40

🎮 Digital Addiction 🧠 Behavioral Addictions 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🔨 Habit Breaking 🏠 Environmental Design

Video Game Addiction

Sell the console, delete the accounts, identify your triggers. A plan for quitting gaming for good.

by Henry Lee 2014 45 pages

4.40

5 ratings

🎮 Digital Addiction 🧠 Behavioral Addictions 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🔨 Habit Breaking 🏠 Environmental Design

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

by Liz Nugent • 2026

A jealous teenager frames her sister's boyfriend for rape; the lie haunts three decades.

4.12

8k+

🏚️ Domestic Thriller 👯‍♀️ Sibling Rivalry ⚖️ False Accusation 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

A jealous teenager frames her sister's boyfriend for rape; the lie haunts three decades.

by Liz Nugent 2026 369 pages

4.12

8k+ ratings

🏚️ Domestic Thriller 👯‍♀️ Sibling Rivalry ⚖️ False Accusation 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

When Crack Was King

by Donovan X. Ramsey • 2023

The crack epidemic was built on two myths, a 100-to-1 law, and government complicity.

4.34

6k+

💊 War On Drugs 🔒 Mass Incarceration ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗣️ Oral History

When Crack Was King

The crack epidemic was built on two myths, a 100-to-1 law, and government complicity.

by Donovan X. Ramsey 2023 448 pages

4.34

6k+ ratings

💊 War On Drugs 🔒 Mass Incarceration ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗣️ Oral History

Mind Over Explicit Matter

by Trish Leigh • 2025

Your brain treats porn like a drug. The plan to starve the compulsion and rewire arousal.

4.58

📵 Porn Recovery 🧠 Neuroscience Of Addiction 🧪 Dopamine Detox 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🔄 Neuroplasticity

Mind Over Explicit Matter

Your brain treats porn like a drug. The plan to starve the compulsion and rewire arousal.

by Trish Leigh 2025 240 pages

4.58

69 ratings

📵 Porn Recovery 🧠 Neuroscience Of Addiction 🧪 Dopamine Detox 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🔄 Neuroplasticity

The Guilt Pill

by Saumya Dave • 2025

A tech CEO and new mother takes an experimental pill to silence her guilt, then disappears.

3.43

2k+

⚡ Feminist Thriller 😔 Maternal Guilt 🏠 Immigrant Daughter 💻 Tech Startup World 📱 Social Media Age

The Guilt Pill

A tech CEO and new mother takes an experimental pill to silence her guilt, then disappears.

by Saumya Dave 2025 384 pages

3.43

2k+ ratings

⚡ Feminist Thriller 😔 Maternal Guilt 🏠 Immigrant Daughter 💻 Tech Startup World 📱 Social Media Age

Off Limits Mogul

by Scarlett Avery • 2024

Taking in his best friend's sister reignites a forbidden crush that tests his loyalty to her brother

4.26

2k+

💰 Billionaire Romance 👫 Best Friend's Sister 🏠 Forced Proximity 😇 Reformed Playboy 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Off Limits Mogul

Taking in his best friend's sister reignites a forbidden crush that tests his loyalty to her brother

by Scarlett Avery 2024 464 pages

4.26

2k+ ratings

💰 Billionaire Romance 👫 Best Friend's Sister 🏠 Forced Proximity 😇 Reformed Playboy 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Low Road

by Eddie B. Allen Jr. • 2004

Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.

3.85

134

🖋️ Literary Biography 💉 Heroin Addiction 🔒 Prison Writing 🎨 Colorism 📚 Pulp Publishing

Low Road

Two guns, no prints, two children locked in the basement. He had written this scene before.

by Eddie B. Allen Jr. 2004 208 pages

3.85

134 ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 💉 Heroin Addiction 🔒 Prison Writing 🎨 Colorism 📚 Pulp Publishing

Notes to John

by Joan Didion • 2025

Joan Didion's private therapy transcripts: a mother's struggle with the daughter she could not save.

3.90

6k+

🛋️ Psychoanalytic Therapy 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Systems 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🕊️ Adoption Trauma 🔗 Codependency

Notes to John

Joan Didion's private therapy transcripts: a mother's struggle with the daughter she could not save.

by Joan Didion 2025 224 pages

3.90

6k+ ratings

🛋️ Psychoanalytic Therapy 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Systems 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🕊️ Adoption Trauma 🔗 Codependency

The Elephant in the Room

by Tommy Tomlinson • 2019

A journalist at 460 pounds reckons with the childhood meals that taught him food was love.

4.15

3k+

🏋️ Weight Loss Memoirs 🍽️ Emotional Eating 🧁 Food Addiction 🪞 Body Shame 🍗 Food Culture

The Elephant in the Room

A journalist at 460 pounds reckons with the childhood meals that taught him food was love.

by Tommy Tomlinson 2019 256 pages

4.15

3k+ ratings

🏋️ Weight Loss Memoirs 🍽️ Emotional Eating 🧁 Food Addiction 🪞 Body Shame 🍗 Food Culture

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