The best self-help books don’t promise to “completely change your life” overnight. Instead, a truly great one—written by someone who knows their stuff—will gently nudge you towards small shifts that ...

Honesty, friction and realism define books that respect how difficult change really feels, without selling shortcuts or ...

Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering, genuinely useful self-help books designed ...

As I have spent a good part of the last year in and out of hospitals, ICUs, trauma treatment centers, and eating disorder treatment, I feel like I have read almost every self-help book under the sun.

Discover 10 self-help books worth reading in 2026 that offer practical insights on mindset, productivity, emotional balance, and personal growth.

For a good chunk of my life, I thought self-help books were a scam. They hawked simple five-step solutions for how to “get the guy,” “10x your productivity” or “discover a new you.” I’d finish reading ...

Consistent and chronic worry is a part of human nature. It is so common that traditions have developed worldwide to help manage worries. Now used by cultures around the world, strings of worry beads ...

Self-help, self-improvement or personal growth — call them what you will, but the literary genre is around an $800 million industry annually. And why not? Most of us want to be better than we ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

You’d have to be living completely off the grid not to know how crazy things are right now. Civil rights rollbacks, a struggling economy and a democracy that could be teetering on the edge of collapse ...

People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.” They want to know how to sleep better, stay fit, or ...