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If you loved Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, these books share similar qualities — same genre, comparable themes, and the kind of reader ratings that signal something special. Whether you read on Kindle, in print, or on audio, these recommendations deliver the same kind of experience.

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    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    by Lori Gottlieb

    ★ 4.91 BLT Score (411.2K ratings)
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    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    by Gabor Maté

    ★ 4.75 BLT Score (24.3K ratings)
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    The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    by Gabor Maté MD, Daniel Maté

    ★ 4.61 BLT Score (36.7K ratings)
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    Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker

    ★ 4.53 BLT Score (32.6K ratings)
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    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

    by Kate Moore

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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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    Code Girls

    by Liza Mundy

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    The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

    by Nate Silver

    ★ 4.03 BLT Score (52.6K ratings)
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    How China Escaped Shock Therapy

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    by Isabella M. Weber

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    Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

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