Books
Best Self-Help Books
Most-published self-help and personal development books.
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150 of 150 rows
Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Art of War | 孙武, Sun Tzu | 1,900 | Open Library Staff Picks, Early works to 1800, Military art and science, great_books_of_the_western_world | 1,434 | jpn, por, cmn |
| As a man thinketh | James Allen | 1,902 | New Thought, Conduct of life, Miniature books, Specimens | 657 | ger, mal, hin |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 1,626 | Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Stoics, Classic Literature | 642 | arm, spa, cze |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | 1,937 | Wealth, Success, Filosofía, Success in business | 308 | arm, spa, ger |
| The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | 1,926 | Business ethics, Personal Finance, Moral and ethical aspects, Wealth | 258 | eng, mal, heb |
| The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought | Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller | 1,910 | Success, Wealth, New Thought, Riqueza | 235 | chi, eng, spa |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 1,936 | Succès, Psychologie appliquée, Psychologie applique e., Applied Psychology | 178 | spa, rus, jpn |
| How to live on 24 hours a day | Arnold Bennett | 1,900 | Conduct of life, Nonfiction, Self-Improvement, Morale pratique | 168 | eng, chi |
| The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting | P. T. Barnum | 1,880 | Success, Finance, Nonfiction, Self-Improvement | 146 | eng, ger |
| The master key system in twenty-four parts with questionnaire and glossary | Charles F. Haanel, Ruth L. Miller | 1,919 | New Thought, Self-actualization (Psychology), Mental discipline, Success | 135 | eng, chi, ind |
| The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Joseph Murphy | 1,963 | Mental discipline, Subconsciousness, Disciplina mental, Subconsciencia | 130 | spa, ben, mar |
| The game of life and how to play it | Florence Scovel Shinn | 1,925 | Conduct of life, New Age, New Thought, Nonfiction | 97 | eng, spa |
| The Law of Success | Napoleon Hill | 1,969 | Success, Business, Management, Nonfiction | 90 | eng, spa |
| The Power of Positive Thinking | Norman Vincent Peale | 1,952 | Applied Psychology, Aspectos religiosos, Christianity, Conduct of life | 89 | eng, chi, spa |
| Psycho-cybernetics | Maxwell Maltz | 1,960 | Success, Psychological aspects of Success, Psychological aspects, Self-perception | 78 | eng, spa, fre |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2,010 | Young Adult Fiction, Cancer—Fiction, Terminally ill—Fiction, Love—Fiction | 78 | eng, pol, spa |
| Thought Vibration Or, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World | William Walker Atkinson | 1,906 | New Age, New Thought, Nonfiction, Self-Improvement | 70 | eng |
| Inquiry into Life | Sylvia S. Mader, Mader | 1,976 | Biology, Human biology, Textbooks, Life (biology) | 63 | eng |
| Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time | Brian Tracy | 2,001 | Procrastination, Dilación, Time management, Berrett Koehler | 60 | tha, gem, eng |
| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin S. Sharma | 1,996 | Self-realization, Self-actualization (psychology), Fiction, visionary & metaphysical, Fiction | 58 | srp, eng, fre |
| The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | 1,998 | Business, Control (Psychology), Contrôle (Psychologie), Pouvoir (Morale) | 55 | eng, rus, ger |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs | 1,959 | Drug Use, Heroin, Drug addicts, Recovering addicts | 54 | spa, rus, ger |
| A child called "it" | David J. Pelzer | 1,987 | Biography, Abused children, Foster home care, Abusive mothers | 48 | eng, ger, spa |
| Everyone Loves a Journal Series | Dionne Grayson | 2,023 | Self-help techniques | 47 | eng |
| Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks | 2,007 | psychology, Alzheimer’s disese, amnesia, Parkinson’s disease | 43 | heb, spa, tur |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | 2,016 | Habit, Habit breaking, Behavior modification, Self-actualization (psychology) | 40 | spa, tur, ger |
| Emotional Intelligence | Daniel Goleman | 1,995 | Emotions and cognition, Intellect, Success, psychological aspects, Self-actualization (psychology) | 39 | und, eng, chi |
| You Are Worthy | L. C. Galbraith | 2,023 | Self-help techniques, Mind and body | 32 | eng |
| Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert | 2,014 | Creative ability, Confidence, Conduct of life, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational | 31 | spa, rus, pol |
| Sexuality (Key Ideas) | Jeffrey Weeks | 1,986 | Sex, Sex customs, Sexual Instruction, PSYCHOLOGY | 31 | eng, spa, und |
| The Judas Kiss | Eleanor Burford | 1,750 | Fiction, Sisters, Gothic novels, Fiction, general | 30 | eng, nor, fin |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1,999 | East Indian Americans, Social life and customs, East Indian Americans in fiction, Nouvelles anglophones | 29 | eng, ita, spa |
| The Strangest Secret | Earl Nightingale, Nightingale | 1,900 | Self-help techniques, Business | 28 | eng, spa, fre |
| Practical Mental Influence | William Walker Atkinson | 1,908 | Mental suggestion, Hypnotism, New Age, Nonfiction | 27 | eng |
| Road Trip : From Survival to Legacy | David Creel, Tom Ziglar | 2,021 | Self-help techniques | 26 | eng |
| 12 Rules for Life | Jordan B. Peterson | 2,015 | Conduct of life, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology | 26 | eng, por |
| I Know This to Be True | Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday | 2,016 | Motivation (psychology), Self-help, Motivational & Inspirational, Celebrities | 25 | eng |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | 2,004 | Intuition, Education, Recovery, Business | 25 | vie, spa, jpn |
| After You | Jojo Moyes | 2,014 | Man-woman relationships, Families, Contemporary women, Family life | 24 | eng, por, chi |
| The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel | 2,020 | Money, Consumption (Economics), Quality of life, Attitude change | 24 | ind, fre, eng |
| Think Like a Monk | Jay Shetty | 2,020 | Self-help, nyt:advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous=2020-09-27, New York Times bestseller, Self-realization | 24 | pol, guj, spa |
| A second chicken soup for the woman's soul | Jack Canfield, Dave Barry | 1,996 | Women, Anecdotes, Conduct of life, Inspiration | 23 | eng, chi, fre |
| Self-esteem | Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning | 1,986 | Self-esteem, Autoestima, General, Psychology | 23 | spa, eng |
| Shenomenal Women | Tasha Champion | 2,021 | Self-help techniques | 22 | eng |
| Married women who love women | Carren Strock | 1,995 | Married women, Lesbians, Wives, Sex | 22 | eng |
| Checkpoint | John Foster | 1,974 | Press, great britain, Power resources, Poverty, Law, great britain | 21 | en |
| Open Your G. I. F. T. S. Vol 2 | Kim Coles, Tevyka Howard | 2,018 | Self-help techniques | 21 | eng |
| The Courage to Heal | Ellen Bass, Laura Davis | 1,988 | Abuso sexual de niños, Adult, Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, Adult child abuse victims | 21 | eng, ger, spa |
| Brass in Color Notebooks | Brass in Color | 2,019 | Music, Self-help techniques | 20 | eng |
| You Can Overcome Anything! | Cesar Espino, Nicolas Srut | 2,020 | Self-help techniques | 20 | eng |
| A life of one's own | Marion Milner | 1,934 | Diaries, Happiness, Introspection, Success | 20 | eng |
| The Greatness Guide | Robin S. Sharma | 2,006 | Psychological aspects, Success, Success in business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | 20 | heb, dut, guj |
| Happinessᵀᴹ | Will Ferguson | 2,001 | Publishers and publishing, Fiction, Self-help techniques, Humorous stories | 20 | eng, ger, rus |
| Your college experience | John N. Gardner, A. Jerome Jewler | 1,992 | Study skills, Success, Critical thinking, College student orientation | 20 | und, eng |
| The Power of Focused Thinking | Edward de Bono, Feng yang | 1,981 | Creative ability, Thought and thinking, Problem solving, Creative thinking | 20 | eng, ara, chi |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | 2,000 | the Law of Attraction, positive thinking, New Thought, Success | 20 | ita, eng, kor |
| Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media | Mary-Lou Galician | 1,600 | Love in mass media, Man-woman relationships, Sex in mass media, Mass media, social aspects | 19 | eng |
| The Book | Alan Watts | 1,966 | Self, Self-knowledge, Theory of, Ego, Philosophy | 19 | eng, rus, ger |
| The Freedom of Life | Annie Payson Call | 1,905 | Mental health, Classic Literature, Fiction, PSYCHOLOGY | 19 | eng |
| Peak Performance | Erik Seversen | 2,022 | Business, Self-help techniques | 18 | eng |
| Computers Helping People with Special Needs | Klaus Miesenberger, Christian Bühler | 2,003 | Computers and people with disabilities, Self-help devices for people with disabilities, Computer science, Information retrieval | 18 | eng |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | Lori Gottlieb | 2,019 | Psychotherapists, Biography, Therapist and patient, PSYCHOLOGY | 18 | eng, por |
| Ai hen chih chien | Susan Forward, Joan Torres | 1,986 | Psychology, Misogyny, Men, Women | 18 | fre, spa, eng |
| Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies | Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D., Laura L. Smith Ph.D. | 2,002 | Anxiety, Miedo, Estrés (Psicología), Stress (Psychology) | 18 | eng, fre, spa |
| The Diversity of Life | Edward Osborne Wilson | 1,992 | Biodiversity, Biodiversity conservation, Biological diversity, Biological diversity conservation | 18 | eng |
| Happiness, Good Health, and Prosperity | Mo Go Fa Lo | 2,024 | Philosophy, Self-help techniques | 17 | hin, guj, gle |
| Mindset | Carol S. Dweck | 2,006 | Belief and doubt, Nonfiction, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Success | 17 | eng, chi, spa |
| The creative mind | Margaret A. Boden | 1,990 | Creative ability, Artificial intelligence, Créativité, Intelligence artificielle | 17 | eng, spa, und |
| The Courage to Be Disliked | Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga | 2,013 | Adlerian psychology, Self-actualization (Psychology), Conduct of life, Thought and thinking | 17 | spa, eng, gre |
| The courage to be | Paul Tillich | 1,952 | Anxiety, Courage, Existentialism, Existentialsim | 17 | ger, eng, fre |
| Who Will Cry When You Die? | Robin S. Sharma | 1,999 | Conduct of life, Self-realization, Self-help, personal development | 17 | eng, fre, chi |
| The art of seeing | Aldous Huxley | 1,942 | Ocular Refraction, Eye, Diseases, Accommodation and refraction | 17 | eng |
| You Are a Badass | Jen Sincero | 2,013 | Self-actualization (Psychology), Self-help techniques, SELF-HELP, Personal Growth | 17 | spa, eng |
| You are not the target | Laura Archera Huxley | 1,963 | Conduct of life, Happiness, Self-actualization (Psychology), Success | 17 | spa, eng |
| El Valor Del Miedo | Gavin De Becker, Gavin De Becker | 1,997 | Violent crimes, Intuition, Psychology, Violence | 17 | eng, spa |
| The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper | 1,930 | Determination (Personality trait), Ficción juvenil, Fiction, Helpfulness | 17 | eng, chi, spa |
| Noonimals | Dalandra Young | 2,019 | Children's fiction, Self-help techniques | 16 | eng |
| Still, I Thrive! | P. K. Kersey, Shatema A. Reedy | 2,021 | Self-help techniques | 16 | eng |
| Everything is F*cked | Mark Manson, Carlos Ramos Malavé | 2,019 | Non-Fiction, Self-actualization (psychology), Conduct of life, Happiness | 16 | eng, spa |
| Come as you are | Emily Nagoski, Blanca González Villegas | 2,015 | Health and hygiene, Sexual behavior, Sexual health, Sex instruction for women | 16 | eng |
| The Definitive Book of Body Language | Allan Pease, Barbara Pease | 2,004 | Body language, Psychology of Movement, Shen ti yu yan, Nonfiction | 16 | vie, chi, eng |
| The lost boy | David J. Pelzer | 1,994 | Biography, Abused children, Abusive mothers, Foster home care | 16 | swe, eng, spa |
| Family Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin S. Sharma | 2,001 | Actualisation de soi, Motivational & Inspirational, Leadership in children, Rôle parental | 16 | heb, fre, guj |
| Bodies that matter | Judith Butler, J. Butler | 1,993 | Philosophy, Femininity, Sex differences (Psychology), Sexual orientation | 16 | eng, spa |
| Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible | Brian Tracy | 2,003 | Success, Self-esteem, Goal (Psychology), Psychological aspects | 16 | eng |
| Women Who BossUp | Tamira Luc, Women With Vision International | 2,020 | Self-help techniques, Health | 15 | eng |
| Maze Book for Kids | Mujahid Bakht | 2,023 | Education, Self-help techniques | 15 | eng |
| In Tune With The Infinite | Ralph Waldo Trine | 2,012 | New thought, Self-actualization (psychology), New Thought, SELF-HELP / General | 15 | eng |
| Living in the Light | Shakti Gawain | 1,985 | Meditation, Self-actualization (Psychology), authoritarian and rebel, east and west | 15 | eng, spa |
| Improve Your Communication Skills | Alan Barker | 2,010 | Business, Careers, Nonfiction, Business communication | 15 | eng |
| Boundaries | Henry Cloud, John Sims Townsend | 1,992 | Interpersonal relations, Christian life, Conduct of life, Christianity | 15 | eng |
| The Essential Questions | Rhodes, Sidney J., Jr., Andrea G. Consiglio | 2,023 | Interpersonal relations, Self-help techniques | 14 | eng |
| Mars and Venus Starting Over | John Gray | 1,998 | Family & Relationships, Nonfiction, Man-woman relationships, Psicología | 14 | eng, spa |
| From Boiling Water to Master of the Southern European Cuisine | Janisa J. Brunstein | 2,017 | Self-help techniques | 14 | spa, ita, eng |
| Illicit drugs | Adrian Barton | 2,003 | Drug abuse, Drug control, Drug traffic, Street Drugs | 14 | eng |
| Life Coaching | Michael Neenan | 2,002 | Conduct of life, Cognitive therapy, SELF-HELP, Affirmations | 14 | eng |
| DSM-IV-TR in action | Sophia F. Dziegielewski | 2,008 | Patient Care Planning, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Classification, Mental illness | 14 | eng |
| Romance and sex in adolescence and emerging adulthood | Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth | 2,005 | Sexual behavior, Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence, Teenagers, Youth, sexual behavior | 14 | eng |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | 2,016 | leadership, business, Personality, Perseverance (Ethics.) | 14 | eng, spa |
| The psychological treatment of depression | J. Mark G. Williams | 1,984 | Behavior therapy, Cognitive therapy, Depression, Depression, Mental | 14 | eng |
| The SPEED of Trust | Stephen M. R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill | 2,006 | Leadership, Organizational change, Success in business, Business ethics | 14 | rus, eng, chi |
| The little book of letting go | Hugh Prather | 2,000 | Self-help techniques, Self-actualization (psychology), Happiness, Paz del espíritu | 14 | eng, spa |
| Being a Bad Sport | Joy Berry | 1,984 | Sportsmanship, Juvenile literature, Conduct of life, Family | 14 | fre, eng |
| Adult Children of Alcholics | Janet Geringer Woititz, Janet G. Woititz | 1,920 | Adult children of alcoholics, Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Alcohólicos | 14 | eng |
| The Happiness Trap | Russ Harris | 2,007 | Happiness, Self-realization, Self-actualization (psychology), Awareness | 14 | eng |
| Zhuan fa lun | Li, Hongzhi, Li Hongzhi | 1,994 | Breathing exercises, Buddhism, Dharmacakra, Exercise | 14 | cmn, chi, eng |
| Creating love | Bradshaw, John | 1,992 | Love, Large type books, Interpersonal relations, Amour | 14 | spa, eng, fre |
| Change for the Better | Elizabeth Wilde McCormick | 1,990 | Self-realization, Self-actualization (Psychology), Psychotherapy, Psychotherapie | 14 | eng |
| Beyond Codependency | Melody Beattie | 1,989 | Codependencia (Psicología), Alcohol, Family, Substance-Related Disorders | 14 | eng, spa |
| God and the evolving universe | James Redfield, Michael Murphy | 2,002 | Evolution, Consciousness, Teleology, Cosmology | 14 | eng, fre |
| Bereavement Support Group Program for Children | Beth Haasl, Jean Marnocha | 1,999 | Bereavement, Grief, Children and death, Children, counseling of | 13 | eng |
| Eating disorders | Laura J. Goodman | 2,001 | Eating disorders, Patients, Treatment, Anecdotes | 13 | eng |
| Change your brain, change your life | Daniel G. Amen, Daniel G Amen | 1,998 | Brain, Physiological aspects of Mental illness, Pathophysiology, Mental illness | 13 | eng |
| This Is Your Mind on Plants | Michael Pollan | 2,021 | Psychotropic drugs, Opium, Mescaline, Caffeine | 13 | eng |
| Dare to connect | Susan J. Jeffers | 1,992 | Interpersonal relations, Self-esteem, Autoestima, Interpersonal communication | 13 | eng, spa |
| Sex wars | Lisa Duggan, Nan D. Hunter | 1,995 | Political aspects of Pornography, Political aspects of Sex, Political aspects of Sexual orientation, Pornography | 13 | eng |
| The Teenage Body Book | Kathy McCoy, Kathy Phd Mccoy | 1,979 | Adolescence, Health, Health and hygiene, Sex instruction for youth | 13 | eng |
| The Job Hunting Handbook | Harry Dahlstrom | 1,983 | Applications for positions, Job hunting, Résumés (Employment), Self-help techniques | 13 | eng |
| Difficult Conversations | Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton | 1,999 | Interpersonal communication, Self-Help & Practical Interests, Social, group or collective psychology, Communication | 13 | eng |
| Girlosophy | Anthea Paul | 2,000 | Young women, Conduct of life, Life skills guides, Self-perception in women | 13 | eng |
| Drama des begabten Kindes | Alice Miller | 1,981 | Adult child abuse victims, Narcissism, Self-esteem, Pathological Psychology | 13 | eng |
| Summer on Blossom Street | Debbie Macomber, Delilah | 2,009 | Knitters (Persons), Literature, Knitting, Cancer | 13 | eng |
| Counseling addicted families | Gerald A. Juhnke | 2,006 | Counseling, Family Therapy, Family psychotherapy, Methods | 12 | eng |
| Ntg- Managing Stress 5e Student Not | Seaward | 1,994 | Stress management, Stress (Psychology), Mind and body, Psychological Stress | 12 | eng |
| The children who lived | Kathryn A. Markell | 2,008 | Bereavement in children, Characters and characteristics in literature, Grief in children, Grief in adolescence | 12 | eng |
| Gunsights | Elmore Leonard | 1,979 | Fiction, Western, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general | 12 | eng |
| MIRACLE MAKER | Esther Jung | 2,023 | Self-help techniques | 12 | eng |
| How to pass exams | Fred Orr | 1,985 | Examinations, Nonfiction, Study Aids & Workbooks, Technique | 12 | spa, eng |
| Diary of Me (before I'm Famous) | Kimberly Keith | 2,022 | Children's fiction, Self-help techniques | 12 | eng |
| Becoming a Pioneer - a Book Series | Bimal Shah | 2,022 | Business, Self-help techniques | 12 | eng |
| Camouflaged Sisters | Lila Holley | 2,015 | Self-help techniques, Biography | 12 | eng |
| Cognitive Behavioural Coaching | Michael Neenan, Windy Dryden | 2,018 | Cognitive therapy, Mental health, Psychotherapy, Personal coaching | 12 | eng |
| Group and Team Coaching | Christine Thornton | 2,010 | Teams in the workplace, Personal coaching, PSYCHOLOGY, Applied Psychology | 12 | eng |
| ERIC BERNE the Best of Games People Play | Ernest Kinnie | 2,017 | Self-help techniques, Psychology | 12 | eng |
| Super brain | Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi | 2,012 | Brain, Self-care, Health, Mind and body, Psychophysiology | 12 | spa, eng |
| Being Wasteful | Joy Berry | 1,984 | Conduct of life, Waste (Economics), Emotions in children, Responsibility | 12 | fre, eng |
| Psychology applied to modern life | Wayne Weiten, Margaret A. Lloyd | 1,983 | Psychological aspects of Adulthood, Adulthood, Textbooks, Psychology textbooks | 12 | eng |
| Cocaine | Paul Gootenberg, P. Gootenberg | 1,999 | History, Nonfiction, Cocaine, Cocaine industry | 12 | eng |
| Overcoming objectification | Ann J. Cahill | 2,011 | Sex (Psychology), Sexual behavior, Sex role, Identity | 12 | eng |
| Toxic Parents | Susan Forward | 1,988 | Familias problemáticas, Child abuse, Codependency, Codependencia (Psicología) | 12 | eng, spa |
| There's Treasure Inside | Jon Collins-Black | 2,024 | Curiosities and wonders, Self-help techniques | 12 | eng |
| The Compound effect | Darren Hardy | 2,010 | Leadership, Success, Self-help techniques, Conduct of life | 12 | eng |
| Living, loving & learning | Leo F. Buscaglia | 1,982 | Actualización de sí mismo (Psicología), Amor, Applied Psychology, Counseling | 12 | chi, eng, spa |
| Self-run, self-supported houses for more effective recovery from alcohol and drug addiction | J. Paul Molloy | 1,990 | Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug addicts | 12 | eng |
| The mindfulness & acceptance workbook for anxiety | John P. Forsyth, John P., Ph.D. Forsyth | 2,007 | Anxiety Disorders, Acceptance and commitment therapy, Popular works, Treatment | 12 | eng |
| Dyslexia | Sylvia Moody | 2,004 | Dyslexia, Dyslexic teenagers, Dyslexia, juvenile literature, Study skills | 12 | eng |
| The Four Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz | 1,997 | Conduct of life, Conduct of life., Miscellanea, Toltec philosophy | 12 | eng, dut, spa |
| Community Treatment of Drug Misuse | Nicholas Seivewright | 1,999 | Treatment, Drug addicts, Drug addiction, Drug abuse | 12 | eng |
| What every BODY is saying | Joe Navarro, Joe Navarro | 2,008 | Nonverbal communication, Body language, Nonfiction, Psychology | 12 | kor, eng |
| Overcoming overeating | Jane R. Hirschmann, Carol H. Munter | 1,988 | Appetite disorders, Compulsive behavior, Compulsive eating, Conducta compulsiva | 12 | eng, spa |
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