These helpful, empowering, and entertaining reads will get you through the post-breakup blues.

Let’s face it, going through a breakup can be a pretty traumatic experience.

However, as the age-old adage goes, “time heals all wounds.”

Books for Breakups: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chödrön

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The good news is that there are many ways to support your recovery after a breakup.

(Besides playing Beyonce’s “Me, Myself and I” a couple of hundred times.

OK.) One not-so-talked-about recovery method includes reading breakup booksyes, you read that correctly.

Books for Breakups: The Breakup Bible: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Healing from a Breakup or Divorce, by Rachel Sussman

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The book offers blunt, straight-to-the-chase advice but with an enlightened point of view, thanks to Pema’smindfulness-basedBuddhist background.

It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After

Calling all reality TV fans!

Why not say “yes”?

Books for Breakups: It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After, by Andi Dorfman

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If the title alone doesn’t grab your attention (totally relatable, right?

), thenNew YorkerandThe Onionwriter and comedian Blythe Roberson’s sharp and sarcastic humor will surely draw you in.

Her witty and entertaining essays provide her hilarious yet thought-provoking, introspective takes on dating in today’s society.

Books for Breakups: Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes

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It’s wise, compassionate, honest, and upliftingthe perfect antidote to any breakup blues.

Books for Breakups: How to Date Men When You Hate Men, by Blythe Roberson

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Books for Breakups: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson

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Books for Breakups: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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