The Top 10 Empowering Breakup Books

Gabriele is a mature actress visits the city where she spent her adolescence. She is sixty-two years old, she married twice and is bisexual. One of her friends, Marianne, hardly remembers the actress because she has Alzheimer’s disease. The other friend is Silvia, a housewife that feels since years the monotony of marriage. Some time ago she said to her daughter that she could take care of their grandchildren for a while, but now she must care for them daily. When the actress arrives, it is difficult for her to find time for both. But fortunately, the actress awakens her to many things… “When I finished this novel, I thought the main character was the actress because I love classic movies and I was doing research on this for months. Later, I did readings and talks at universities and libraries. And most of the audience thought that Silvia was the main character. Often women understood very well what she felt and about the decision to leave home… This in contrast to male readers who were troubled about a mature woman leaving her husband and grandchildren for a new life.

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about the illness about marriage and children and memory, about the shallowness of sanity, and about life itself.”

If you are in the frame of mind to flee into a magnificent and wistful mind, I would highly suggest Charlotte Shane’s Prostitute Laundry, which is the collection of her e-letter by the same name for several years. Although her other such series, NB, is also a sexy and whip-smart read, Prostitute Laundry especially deals with emotions of breakup and their aftermath. This is your book, if you want to examine female sexuality and be thoroughly absorbed while wallowing a bit, too.

The Pisces by Melissa Broder. This book is a must-read for anyone going through a breakup. You won’t know what hit you, the book has a mixture of humor and eroticism which makes you go ‘What the hell’ and ‘ROFL’ at the same time.

It’s funny, it’s compassionate, it’s inclusive–all things you need to deal with a breakup! Dating and relationship coach April Hirschman helps you with breakup rituals, social media cleansing, breakup playlists, getting some help from your friends, and much more.

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, this book is a collection of short stories which are mostly based on realistic and unspoken truths about being a woman. This book made me remember some really deep scars and helped overcome them, the words are blunt but absolutely true.

A great way to entertain yourself after a breakup. This is a book that tackles human behavior, habits, and defenses. It helps you to see yourself from a different perspective that will make you realize why you deserve to live your life to the fullest. The author Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist that is why she tackles everything in a clinician and a patient’s point of view.

The author introduces the idea of relational self-awareness, encouraging you to explore your personal history to gain an understanding of your own relational patterns, as well as your strengths and weaknesses in relationships.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur take readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Sharing keys that helped her through personal battles with depression, insecurity, infertility, and loss, Cora offers strategies to help identify the tactics and agenda of the enemy, and the obstacles to your breakthrough.