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For many of us, breaking up can be one of the biggest challenges we face. No matter your relationship lasts for 20 years or three months, the destruction of losing love changes our basic level. And – In the long run, the pain at the time may lead you to believe otherwise, but a lot of changes may be positive. sometimes Long long. After a lot of rehabilitation, this is our favorite breakup book.

While there is nothing to replace a treatment appointment with a friend or an old-fashioned vent (or SOB) meeting, breakup books are an important part of the split toolbox. Whether you choose a painful divorce memoir or a self-help book, breakup books can show us the path to healing, or at least help us feel seeing and comforting when the pain becomes unbearable. Many of these books are like therapists, and a best friend wrapped in one, and reading them is like a hug while hearing the words of wisdom of the person you are and coming out of the other person.

From long-term bestsellers Eat Pray Love Like the latest outstanding performance You can make this place beautiful The following carefully curated breakup books are non-fiction and focus on helping you recover, feel, and (ultimately, when you’re ready) move forward – whatever you look like.

Eat, pray, love

certainly, Eat Pray Love These days, it may still be possible to get the share of its sight coilExtremely good– A reliable premise (if we can all afford it and take a global adventure to heal from divorce!), but for some reason it has also become a cultural touchstone. Gilbert’s thirties crisis involved realizing that she wasn’t content with her life or relationships, leading to her divorce and an exciting journey, and despite myself, I found the book’s millions of fans equally inspiring. Even if you can’t fly to Italy, India and/or Bali, you will find solace in Gilbert’s confusion, fear, loneliness and ultimate recovery and new life. Even if we do it in our own homes, we can (and should) (and should) all of this.
Eat, pray, love
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You can make this place beautiful

The painful memoir of the divorce, grief and reconstruction of poet Maggie Smith combines the honesty of the ashes and the gorgeous writing that has brought me through one of the worst breakups. After meeting with her future husband and having two children in college, Smith is turned a blind eye when she discovers her relationship – though, when she opens the fragments of their marriage with painful pieces, she finds the seeds have been planted for a long time, finding evidence in her Mesg bag. You can make this place beautiful It is the power of betrayal, pain and love that heals and through it to see your intimate portrait. Once I finished it, I knew that this breakup book would be one I returned again and again. (Another priority: Short chapters are perfect for the attention span of heartbreak.)
You can make this place beautiful
$1.99
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Tiny beautiful things

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Cheryl’s Wandering Dear Sugar Column has been advising on love, empathy and thoughts for over a decade. Tiny beautiful things In a wonderfully vast volume, bring the best of wisdom into every stage and occasion of life, providing healing when touching on lost love, the power of forgiveness and how to find the path to redemption. The wandering person does it all in a way that is candid, humor, compassion and love – reading her words is like listening to a best friend telling you what you need to hear.
Tiny beautiful things
$13.99 $17.00 18% off
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What to do when discarded

What should you do when your 30 (!) year husband gives up his ex? If you are Suzy Hopkins, you can work with your daughter and create an illustration guide to “break” your heart. The result is What to do when discardedwhich takes you day after day (literally – every page has a countdown every day, starting from day 1,582). Hopkins allows you to feel all the feelings and advise them, and with a sense of humor that may make you laugh through tears (or at least smile in a smile).
What to do when discarded
$8.92
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Everything I have for love

OK, Everything I have for love It’s not a breakup book in itself, but it’s definitely a book about being single and the ups and downs that come with it. Alderton’s funny memoirs about growing up through heartbreak and relationships is also an ode to friendship and the people you call at the lowest point. After reading this book, I immediately sent the copy to a friend who had just broken down. Reading is like having a single heart on white wine glasses: catharsis, fun, tearjerking and healing. (If you prefer novels, Alderton’s ghost and Good materials Great post-split reading too. )
Everything I have for love
$1.99
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Heartbroken

Why is heartbroken so much harm – becomes unbearable, exists, and seems endless? This is what journalist Florence Williams decided to discover after the sudden end of his 25-year marriage. In pursuit of answers, Williams delves into the latest scientific research, therapy, drugs and new era coping strategies. If you are the type to understand the problem (incriminal), you will resonate with Williams’ journey and her unique way of finding a return to joy and satisfaction Heartbroken.
Heartbroken
$9.99
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How to heal a sad heart

We have been married for 26 years and 15 years together, and no one would think that Rosie Green’s marriage would end with her husband coming out without leaving a forwarding address. The cruel breakup rolled up Rosie, not sure if she would recover every time. When she finally did this, she knew she had to help other women through sharing. She just did it in her candid, humorous guide How to heal a sad heartThis is a manual that can be achieved through the worst breakup I imagined – more fulfilling than before.
How to heal a sad heart
$7.99 $17.99 56% off
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This American ex-wife

Not all divorce memoirs are described as “exuberant” and “unapologetically,” but Lyz Lenz is of course. Writer and cultural critics think her 12-year marriage failed and the typical divorce narrative felt invisible, so she wrote about her own marriage. exist This American ex-wifeLenz introduces all the good parts of divorce, showing that this often heartbreaking experience can also bring freedom and empowerment.
This American ex-wife
$4.99 $28.00 82% off
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Fragments

In her first memoir, renowned writer Leslie Jamison explores her “split” relationship, focusing specifically on her failed marriage and relationship with her young daughter. Readers love the power of Jamison’s writing Fragments and related to her honesty about her marital difficulties and her progress after her collapse.
Fragments
$14.99 $29.00 48% off
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The beauty in breakthrough

Michele Harper’s marriage ended as her career as an emergency physician was ready to take off, leaving her alone into a new city, a new single, wondering where to go next. This seductive memoir details how she guided herself toward self-healing, even as she learned to heal others as a doctor. Every patient she writes The beauty in breakthrough As Harper explores the broken medical system and his own heartbrokenness, classes for healing, compassion and recovery are provided.
The beauty in breakthrough
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Maybe you should talk to someone

After the breakup, psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb Maybe you should talk to someone. As she helps her patients through her own lives, she is surprised to find out how much she has to do with them and how much she (we) can learn from the interaction between professional roles and personal pain.
Maybe you should talk to someone
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How to date a man when you hate him

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One of the last stages of any breakup is to get back there – aka Dating Again – this mission can feel anywhere from exciting to horrifying, especially considering the curse of the 2025 dating scene. Blythe Robertson How to date a man when you hate him. The witty part is like a real interview with a man, about whether it is a date and a good flirting (of course, with a bad flirting that doesn’t work) will make you smile and nod in this completely ridiculous book.
How to date a man when you hate him
$12.99 $23.99 46% off
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Love life

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If you spend any time on social media, you might see videos by coach and bestselling author Matthew Hussey: The concise yet sympathetic reel and Tiktok because it’s hard to find true love and how to keep the path (because the ultimate goal is worth it). exist Love lifeHussey brings these insights to the page, helping us release the pain and trauma of past relationships, address our inner fears and self-destructive tendencies, and direct ourselves in the right direction to find the love we long for. Hussey even begins with his own experiences and mistakes, which is both a memoir and a guide to browsing modern love.
Love life
$14.99 $28.99 48% off
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All about love

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Want to study philosophy in depth? All about lovethis is the only masterpiece of a visionary bell hook, and is a place to start. In it, Hooks argues that we should redefine love as a verb (rather than a noun) and then avoid the romantic/sexual meaning we often assume it has. Instead, she proposed guidelines for injecting love into society and our own lives. Her compassionate, wise words will help you recover from your heartbreaking heart and find your faith in love again.
All about love
$12.49 $16.99 26% off
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Rules do not apply

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Ariel Levy’s Unconventional Life – Spends every opportunity to explore the world, write stories and waste rules, regardless of the context, to provide a great memoir for memoirs. But what is Rules do not apply Therefore, the emotional resonance is that Levi explores lost losses, relationships, etc. simultaneously, making this memoir both healing and inspiring.
Rules do not apply
$5.99 $27.00 78% off
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Sad wisdom

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While most of the books on this list are relatively new releases, Sad wisdom First published in 2009 – Still a midstream tay column in post-segment literature. Among them, New York Times best-selling author Susan Piver invites us to reimagine heartbreak as an opportunity for spiritual and emotional transformation that gradually brings you to a new stage of life as you recover and grow. She does this by exploring traditions around the world that help people find happiness through pain, sharing wisdom through related anecdotes, exercises and meditations that anyone can do.
Sad wisdom
$13.99
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