Publication year 2014
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Education, Science & Technology
Tags Education, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Science & Nature, Education, Leadership, Business & Economics, Psychology
Self-Help Books
Self-Help Books describes a diverse selection of titles that focus on self-discovery and self-improvement. The self-help genre is characterized by literature that shares research and advice to promote self-understanding and prompt changes in one's outlook or behavior, thus improving one's quality of life. The Self-Help Collection features texts that discuss topics ranging from business and personal finance to interpersonal relationships, mental health, and sexuality.
Make It Stick
Make Your Bed
Man's Search for Meaning
Many Lives, Many Masters
Maps of Meaning
Mastery
Mating in Captivity
Mattering
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Me and White Supremacy
Measure What Matters
Meditations
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Mindset
Misbehaving
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Mostly What God Does
My Grandmother's Hands
Never Eat Alone
Never Finished
Publication year 2014
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Education, Science & Technology
Tags Education, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Science & Nature, Education, Leadership, Business & Economics, Psychology
Publication year 2017
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Wins & Losses, Teamwork, Masculinity
Tags Self-Improvement, Inspirational, Psychology, Leadership, Military & War, Business & Economics, Psychology, Biography
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the World is a work of self-help psychology by Admiral William H. McRaven. The book is a continuation and expansion of a commencement speech McRaven delivered at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014, which went viral on the internet. Formerly a high-ranking officer of the US Navy and Commander of US Special Operations Command, McRaven relates his experiences in Navy SEAL training to... Read Make Your Bed Summary
Publication year 1946
Genre Autobiography / Memoir, Nonfiction
Themes Religion & Spirituality
Tags Holocaust, Religion & Spirituality, World War II, Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Biography, Self-Improvement
Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 memoir and work of popular psychology. It details the author, Viktor Frankl’s, experience in a concentration camp and his attempts to overcome and understand the trauma of that experience. Through these autobiographical details, Frankl introduces logotherapy, the psychotherapeutic theory for which he would become famous, and explores themes of Finding Meaning in Extreme Conditions, Faith as an Expression of Humanity’s Deepest Impulses, and The Importance of Moral Choice... Read Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Publication year 1988
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Trust & Doubt, Memory, Science & Technology, Mental Health
Tags Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology, Biography, Self-Improvement
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives is a new-age, self-help memoir written by American psychiatrist Dr. Brian L. Weiss. Originally published on July 15, 1988, by Touchstone, the book covers a portion of Weiss’s career in which he conducts therapy sessions with Catherine, a patient with symptoms of fear and anxiety. After putting Catherine under trance with hypnotic... Read Many Lives, Many Masters Summary
Publication year 1999
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Fear, Religion & Spirituality, Order & Chaos
Tags Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, World History, Science & Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Fantasy, Self-Improvement, Religion & Spirituality
Publication year 2012
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Education, Self Discovery, Perseverance
Tags Self-Improvement, Psychology, Business & Economics, Philosophy, Leadership, World History, Psychology, Philosophy
Publication year 2006
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, Marriage, Love
Tags Relationships, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Love & Sexuality
Publication year 2026
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Community, Self Discovery, Loneliness
Tags Self-Improvement
In Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose (2026), journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace presents a guide to understanding and cultivating a fundamental human need: to feel valued by others and to add value in return. This work of personal development and popular psychology presents diminished mattering as a framework for understanding contemporary experiences of loneliness, burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. The book is intended for a broad audience, including anyone feeling disconnected... Read Mattering Summary
Publication year 2019
Genre Autobiography / Memoir, Nonfiction
Themes Trust & Doubt
Tags Psychology, Self-Improvement, Psychology, Biography, Mental Illness
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (2019) is a nonfiction book by American writer and psychotherapist, Lori Gottlieb. A combination of memoir and popular science, it brings together Gottlieb’s personal life experience and her therapeutic work to illuminate the role therapy can play in everyone’s lives. The work has become a New York Times bestseller and Time magazine Must-Read Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for... Read Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Summary
Publication year 2020
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Race, Justice, Good & Evil
Tags Race & Racism, Black Lives Matter, Education, Education, Social Justice, Sociology, Self-Improvement, Politics & Government
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book and workbook published in 2020. Structured around a 28-day antiracism journaling challenge, white readers and participants critically examine their own personal complicity in upholding white supremacy.Stemming from author Saad’s viral challenge on Instagram— #MeAndWhiteSupremacy—over the course of four weeks, Me and White Supremacy breaks open white supremacy as an... Read Me and White Supremacy Summary
Publication year 2017
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Perseverance, Teamwork, Order & Chaos
Tags Business & Economics, Leadership, Self-Improvement
Publication year 180
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Religion & Spirituality, Fate, Perseverance, Good & Evil
Tags Philosophy, Ancient Rome, Philosophy, World History, Psychology, Psychology, Biography, Self-Improvement, Classic Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
Meditations is a collection of prose philosophical reflections and exercises composed in Koine Greek by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who lived from 121-180 and ruled from 161-180. Though the precise dating of his compositions is unknown and they are not believed to be presented in chronological order, at least some of the books were written while he was on military campaign in the north of Europe during his reign. Scholars are generally in consensus that... Read Meditations Summary
Publication year 1992
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Marriage, Fear, Forgiveness, Love
Tags Self-Improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Love & Sexuality, Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992) is a self-help and personal development book by American author John Gray. The book is designed to help couples improve their relationships by accepting how different men and women are. Although the book was initially met with critical acclaim, it has lost popularity due to critiques about sexist content and the book’s worldview. Although this is Gray’s best-known work, Gray has published many similar books concerned... Read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Summary
Publication year 2006
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Education, Self Discovery, Perseverance
Tags Self-Improvement, Psychology, Education, Education, Leadership, Business & Economics, Parenting, Psychology
In 2006, psychologist Carol S. Dweck, PhD, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, released the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, as a layperson’s guide to her decades of academic research. Initially interested in areas of motivation, personality, and development, the author gravitated toward research in cognitive motivation theory. She eventually discovered that the concepts of “fixed” and “growth” mindsets explain what motivates some people to embrace challenges and... Read Mindset Summary
Publication year 2016
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Economics, Community, Politics & Government
Tags Science & Nature, Business & Economics, Sociology, World History, Psychology, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Publication year 1931
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Mental Health, Appearance & Reality, Art
Tags Psychology, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Nature, Psychology, Philosophy, Self-Improvement, Classic Fiction
Publication year 2024
Genre Biography, Nonfiction
Themes Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Religion & Spirituality
Tags Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Inspirational, Self-Improvement
Publication year 2017
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Race, Colonialism, Community
Tags Social Justice, Race & Racism, Self-Improvement, Colonialism & Postcolonialism, African American Literature, World History, Psychology, Psychology, Mental Illness, Health
Publication year 2005
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Language
Tags Business & Economics, Self-Improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Leadership, Psychology
Publication year 2022
Genre Autobiography / Memoir, Nonfiction
Themes Wins & Losses, Perseverance, Shame & Pride
Tags Psychology, Philosophy, Inspirational, Sports, Psychology, Philosophy, Self-Improvement, Biography