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If you loved Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, 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.

10 books for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup cover

    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou

    5.00 BLT Score (283.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (283.7K)
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    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants cover

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    4.96 BLT Score (177.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (177.7K)
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    Humankind: A Hopeful History cover

    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    by Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton, Erica Moore

    4.67 BLT Score (81.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (81.8K)
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    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    by Gabor Maté

    4.75 BLT Score (24.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (24.3K)
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    All the President's Men

    by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

    4.50 BLT Score (58.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.3K)
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    Bloody Ridge and Beyond

    by Marlin Groft, Larry Alexander

    4.44 BLT Score (272 ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (272)
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    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women cover

    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

    by Kate Moore

    4.37 BLT Score (189.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (189.8K)
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    Our Crime Was Being Jewish

    by Anthony S. Pitch, Michael Berenbaum

    4.36 BLT Score (881 ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (881)
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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder cover

    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

    Incerto • Book 4

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    4.35 BLT Score (58.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (58.3K)
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    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures cover

    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    4.18 BLT Score (105.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (105.3K)

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