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If you loved Scrappy by Benjamin P. Barton, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Personal Memoirs, Personal Growth, Self-Help, and Biography & Autobiography.

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The Light We Carry Overcoming in Uncertain Times — Michelle Obama

The Light We Carry Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Happiness Project Tenth Anniversary Edition Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun — Gretchen Rubin

The Happiness Project Tenth Anniversary Edition Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Spring 2026 9781250290496 — Flatiron Author to Be Revealed May 2025

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Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Activate Your Greatness — Alex Toussaint

Activate Your Greatness

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Growing Old Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Growing Old Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Average Expectations Lessons in Lowering the Bar — Shep Rose

Average Expectations Lessons in Lowering the Bar

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Blitz Your Life Stories From an NFL and ALS Warrior — Tim Shaw

Blitz Your Life Stories From an NFL and ALS Warrior

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

You Will Find Your People How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult — Lane Moore

You Will Find Your People How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Writing Past Dark Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life — Bonnie Friedman

Writing Past Dark Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life

Bonnie Friedman

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Man Enough Undefining My Masculinity — Justin Baldoni

Man Enough Undefining My Masculinity

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

A Preparation for Death — Greg Baxter

A Preparation for Death

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Tales from the Factory Floor How I Got from There to Here — Geoff Thompson

Tales from the Factory Floor How I Got from There to Here

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Now Go Out There (and Get Curious) — Mary Karr

Now Go Out There (and Get Curious)

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Brushstrokes of Life Discovering How God Brings Beauty and Purpose to Your Story — Anne Neilson

The Brushstrokes of Life Discovering How God Brings Beauty and Purpose to Your Story

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Be Useful Seven Tools for Life — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Be Useful Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Running for My Life One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games — Lopez Lomong

Running for My Life One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Honestly — Sheila Walsh

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

Dear Dolly Collected Wisdom — Dolly Alderton

Dear Dolly Collected Wisdom

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Gratitude Diaries How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life — Janice Kaplan

The Gratitude Diaries How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Gift of Intuition — Janeah Rose

The Gift of Intuition

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Comfort Book — Matt Haig

The Comfort Book

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Shift Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself — Tinx

The Shift Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

You’re Already Awesome How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Step Into Greatness — Alison Faulkner

You’re Already Awesome How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Step Into Greatness

Alison Faulkner

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

The Happiness Project Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun — Gretchen Rubin

The Happiness Project Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Personal Growth • Self-Help

If Scrappy by Benjamin P. Barton is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Personal Memoirs, Personal Growth, Self-Help and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Michelle Obama, Gretchen Rubin, Flatiron Author to Be Revealed May 2025, Alex Toussaint, and others.

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