Self Help
Life's challenges become more manageable with expert guidance on everything from productivity and relationships to emotional wellbeing and personal growth. These transformative books offer practical strategies, inspiring wisdom, and proven techniques to help you create positive change and live your best life.
Self Help Book Summaries
Make Your Kid A Money Genius (Even If You're Not)
No financial expertise required: the age-by-age guide to raising money-smart kids.
Parenting
Finance
Money
Self Help
Family
Make Your Kid A Money Genius (Even If You're Not)
No financial expertise required: the age-by-age guide to raising money-smart kids.
Parenting
Finance
Money
Self Help
Family
Resilient
Twelve inner strengths built through small daily practices: the neuroscience of staying unshakeable.
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Mental Health
Health
Resilient
Twelve inner strengths built through small daily practices: the neuroscience of staying unshakeable.
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Mental Health
Health
Customers for Life
One customer is worth half a million. Keeping them depends on the system behind the smile.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Self Help
Customers for Life
One customer is worth half a million. Keeping them depends on the system behind the smile.
Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Self Help
The Art of Action
Three gaps sabotage every strategy. Close them with a military doctrine, not with more planning.
Business
Leadership
Management
Self Help
History
The Art of Action
Three gaps sabotage every strategy. Close them with a military doctrine, not with more planning.
Business
Leadership
Management
Self Help
History
Never Enough
High-achieving schools now produce an at-risk generation, and the fix isn't what parents expect.
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Education
Sociology
Never Enough
High-achieving schools now produce an at-risk generation, and the fix isn't what parents expect.
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Education
Sociology
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
Move past showing versus telling: design a story that gives readers their own emotional journey.
Writing
Self Help
Creativity
Reference
Psychology
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
Move past showing versus telling: design a story that gives readers their own emotional journey.
Writing
Self Help
Creativity
Reference
Psychology
The Vagus Nerve Reset
Polyvagal theory, practical: daily exercises that coax your nervous system out of survival mode.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Health
Personal Development
The Vagus Nerve Reset
Polyvagal theory, practical: daily exercises that coax your nervous system out of survival mode.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Health
Personal Development
On Death and Dying
Dying follows an emotional sequence the living refuse to see. One doctor listened and mapped it.
Psychology
Self Help
Death
Health
Medicine
On Death and Dying
Dying follows an emotional sequence the living refuse to see. One doctor listened and mapped it.
Psychology
Self Help
Death
Health
Medicine
7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
Split your income four ways, spend time like a resource, and become the person you'd follow.
Self Help
Business
Personal Development
Finance
Personal Growth
7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
Split your income four ways, spend time like a resource, and become the person you'd follow.
Self Help
Business
Personal Development
Finance
Personal Growth
Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ
Wealth comes from know-how, not assets. Five core capacities that make every dollar work harder.
Finance
Money
Wealth
Business
Economics
Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ
Wealth comes from know-how, not assets. Five core capacities that make every dollar work harder.
Finance
Money
Wealth
Business
Economics
Chop Wood Carry Water
Greatness is built in the daily grind, not the spotlight. Learn to train there.
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Philosophy
Spirituality
Chop Wood Carry Water
Greatness is built in the daily grind, not the spotlight. Learn to train there.
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Philosophy
Spirituality
The Real Book of Real Estate
The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.
Business
Finance
Money
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
The Real Book of Real Estate
The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.
Business
Finance
Money
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
My Grandmother's Hands
Racism lives in the body, not the mind. Healing starts with the nervous system.
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
Self Help
Mental Health
My Grandmother's Hands
Racism lives in the body, not the mind. Healing starts with the nervous system.
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
Self Help
Mental Health
The Power to Change
Identity change, daily habits, and a power only God supplies: the formula for lasting change.
Self Help
Christian
Spirituality
Faith
Self Improvement
The Power to Change
Identity change, daily habits, and a power only God supplies: the formula for lasting change.
Self Help
Christian
Spirituality
Faith
Self Improvement
Useful Delusions
Self-deception isn't a flaw. It's what holds relationships, nations, and economies together.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Sociology
Philosophy
Useful Delusions
Self-deception isn't a flaw. It's what holds relationships, nations, and economies together.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Sociology
Philosophy
The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Mental Health
Therapy
The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Mental Health
Therapy
How to Finish Everything You Start
Unfinished projects aren't laziness. The psychology of why you stall, and a method for finishing.
Self Help
Personal Development
Business
Psychology
Management
How to Finish Everything You Start
Unfinished projects aren't laziness. The psychology of why you stall, and a method for finishing.
Self Help
Personal Development
Business
Psychology
Management
Getting Past Your Breakup
The breakup recovery method: why contact stalls healing, and the inner work that fills the silence.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Growth
Mental Health
Grief
Getting Past Your Breakup
The breakup recovery method: why contact stalls healing, and the inner work that fills the silence.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Growth
Mental Health
Grief
Expand the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Give your subconscious a task before bed. It works the night shift, no questions asked.
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
Personal Development
New Age
Expand the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Give your subconscious a task before bed. It works the night shift, no questions asked.
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
Personal Development
New Age
The Magic of Believing
Your subconscious takes orders. Here is the 1948 playbook for giving it the right ones.
Self Help
Spirituality
Psychology
Business
Philosophy
The Magic of Believing
Your subconscious takes orders. Here is the 1948 playbook for giving it the right ones.
Self Help
Spirituality
Psychology
Business
Philosophy
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Toddlers want to help, not be entertained. Ancient parenting wisdom the West forgot.
Parenting
Anthropology
Self Help
Psychology
Family
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Toddlers want to help, not be entertained. Ancient parenting wisdom the West forgot.
Parenting
Anthropology
Self Help
Psychology
Family
From Strength to Strength
Your brain's peak mental speed fades early. The slower, wiser mind that follows is your edge.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Business
Philosophy
From Strength to Strength
Your brain's peak mental speed fades early. The slower, wiser mind that follows is your edge.
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Business
Philosophy
The Book of Woman
Why the pill was history's greatest revolution and marriage is still its ugliest invention.
Spirituality
Philosophy
Self Help
Feminism
Religion
The Book of Woman
Why the pill was history's greatest revolution and marriage is still its ugliest invention.
Spirituality
Philosophy
Self Help
Feminism
Religion
Story Engineering
Six storytelling skills and a four-part map that transform an idea into a novel that works.
Writing
Reference
Self Help
Books About Books
Creativity
Story Engineering
Six storytelling skills and a four-part map that transform an idea into a novel that works.
Writing
Reference
Self Help
Books About Books
Creativity
The Disease to Please
Why needing everyone's approval works like an addiction, and the protocol for breaking free.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Personal Development
Personal Growth
The Disease to Please
Why needing everyone's approval works like an addiction, and the protocol for breaking free.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Personal Development
Personal Growth
Law of Attraction
Vague wants repel; precise ones magnetize. The method for turning complaints into targets.
Self Help
Spirituality
New Age
Manifestation
Personal Development
Law of Attraction
Vague wants repel; precise ones magnetize. The method for turning complaints into targets.
Self Help
Spirituality
New Age
Manifestation
Personal Development
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The advice you need when your startup is on fire: no formulas, just hard-won survival tactics.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Psychology
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The advice you need when your startup is on fire: no formulas, just hard-won survival tactics.
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Management
Psychology
The Pragmatic Programmer
The habits and instincts that turn junior coders into trusted pros: a programmer's survival guide.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Management
The Pragmatic Programmer
The habits and instincts that turn junior coders into trusted pros: a programmer's survival guide.
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
Business
Management
Why You Act the Way You Do
Anger, fear, or depression? Your temperament blend triggers them. Spiritual practices override it.
Psychology
Self Help
Christian
Spirituality
Relationships
Why You Act the Way You Do
Anger, fear, or depression? Your temperament blend triggers them. Spiritual practices override it.
Psychology
Self Help
Christian
Spirituality
Relationships
Single On Purpose
Being single isn't a gap. It's where you build the self a real relationship needs.
Self Help
Psychology
Relationships
Personal Growth
Mental Health
Single On Purpose
Being single isn't a gap. It's where you build the self a real relationship needs.
Self Help
Psychology
Relationships
Personal Growth
Mental Health
HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done
Longer hours don't work. The fix: 90-minute focus blocks, ruthless priorities, and real renewal.
Business
Self Help
Management
Leadership
Personal Development
HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done
Longer hours don't work. The fix: 90-minute focus blocks, ruthless priorities, and real renewal.
Business
Self Help
Management
Leadership
Personal Development
Love Sense
Romantic love is a hardwired survival system. Its rules are predictable, and science just proved it.
Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
Love
Marriage
Love Sense
Romantic love is a hardwired survival system. Its rules are predictable, and science just proved it.
Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
Love
Marriage
The Feeling Good Handbook
Catch the thinking errors behind depression. Challenge them with CBT exercises. Feel better.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Health
Personal Development
The Feeling Good Handbook
Catch the thinking errors behind depression. Challenge them with CBT exercises. Feel better.
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
Health
Personal Development
Freedom
Real freedom isn't political. It's inner work: seeing through the beliefs society implanted in you.
Spirituality
Self Help
Philosophy
Religion
Psychology
Freedom
Real freedom isn't political. It's inner work: seeing through the beliefs society implanted in you.
Spirituality
Self Help
Philosophy
Religion
Psychology
Rewire Your Brain
Anxiety, low mood, fuzzy memory: all are patterns your brain learned and all can be unlearned.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Health
Rewire Your Brain
Anxiety, low mood, fuzzy memory: all are patterns your brain learned and all can be unlearned.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Health
The Stress of Life
Three stages of adaptation: how the body's defense against threats becomes the engine of disease.
Psychology
Health
Science
Biology
Self Help
The Stress of Life
Three stages of adaptation: how the body's defense against threats becomes the engine of disease.
Psychology
Health
Science
Biology
Self Help
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
From first touch to BDSM scenes: the unabashed guide to lesbian sex, anatomy, and connection.
Lesbian
Sexuality
Queer
Lgbt
Self Help
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
From first touch to BDSM scenes: the unabashed guide to lesbian sex, anatomy, and connection.
Lesbian
Sexuality
Queer
Lgbt
Self Help
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Everyone cheats a little and still feels honest. The hidden forces that widen that gap.
Psychology
Science
Economics
Business
Self Help
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Everyone cheats a little and still feels honest. The hidden forces that widen that gap.
Psychology
Science
Economics
Business
Self Help
Win Your Inner Battles
Fear can't survive action. A battle plan for the inner enemies that keep you small.
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Personal Growth
Mental Health
Win Your Inner Battles
Fear can't survive action. A battle plan for the inner enemies that keep you small.
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Personal Growth
Mental Health
The Little Book of Market Wizards
Risk discipline, self-knowledge, and patience: the real edge of the world's best traders, distilled.
Money
Business
Economics
Psychology
Self Help
The Little Book of Market Wizards
Risk discipline, self-knowledge, and patience: the real edge of the world's best traders, distilled.
Money
Business
Economics
Psychology
Self Help
Maps of Meaning
Meaning demands sacrifice and truth. The easy path leads nowhere. Here is what works instead.
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
Spirituality
Mythology
Maps of Meaning
Meaning demands sacrifice and truth. The easy path leads nowhere. Here is what works instead.
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
Spirituality
Mythology
