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Best Sellers In Self-Help Books

Self-help books can help you improve all aspects of your life, from work to personal development and relationships. Our wide selection of self-help books, from emotional and motivational self-help books to self-management and personal development self-help books, can help you make the right changes on your path to self-improvement. Browse our selection of the best self-improvement books available today.

Best-selling Self-Help titles

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity We've Got Issues: How You Can...

Phillip C McGraw
Buy from $12.14

All Hope is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation All Hope is Found:...

Sarah Jakes Roberts
Buy from $11.00

The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) The Wisdom of the Bullfrog:...

William H McRaven, Admiral
Buy from $13.26

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine Profit First: Transform Your...

Mike Michalowicz
Buy from $14.83

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to...

Jon Gordon, Ken Blanchard (Foreword by)
Buy from $8.91

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother's Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love Mom, I Want to Hear Your...

Jeffrey Mason
Buy from $26.13

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Eight Dates: Essential...

John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman
Buy from $13.86

Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What) Love Life: How to Raise Your...

Matthew Hussey
Buy from $27.16

Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Financial Feminist: Overcome...

Tori Dunlap
Buy from $15.90

She Believed She Could, So She Did She Believed She Could, So...

Inc Peter Pauper Press (Creator)
Buy from $5.89

Teeth Are Not for Biting Board Book Teeth Are Not for Biting...

Elizabeth Verdick
Buy from $6.97

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life Designing Your Life: How to...

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Buy from $9.71

Joyful Recollections of Trauma Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Paul Scheer
Buy from $25.02

Untamed Untamed

Glennon Doyle
Buy from $8.07

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Hold Me Tight: Seven...

Sue Johnson
Buy from $11.76

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of...

Gary John Bishop
Buy from $8.93

Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime Secure Love: Create a...

Julie Menanno
Buy from $25.79

Disappointing Affirmations Disappointing Affirmations

Dave Tarnowski
Buy from $13.59

15 Lies Women Are Told at Work: ...and the Truth We Need to Succeed 15 Lies Women Are Told at...

Bonnie Hammer
Buy from $22.70

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Deep Work: Rules for Focused...

Cal Newport
Buy from $14.91

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self The Comfort Crisis: Embrace...

Michael Easter
Buy from $19.65

Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward Necessary Endings: The...

Dr. Henry Cloud
Buy from $11.25

The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1 The Go-Giver, Expanded...

Bob Burg, John David Mann
Buy from $8.99

You're Going to Make It: 50 Morning and Evening Devotions to Unrush Your Mind, Uncomplicate Your Heart, and Experience Healing Today You're Going to Make It: 50...

Lysa TerKeurst
Buy from $13.63

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Self-Help Books FAQs

Self-help books come in many different forms, and finding the right one for you all depends on what you're looking to improve in your life. For example, you might want emotional self-help books or self-management self-help books. Here's a short list of some self-help books that span several categories.

  • Burn After Writing by Sharon Jones
    Personal development self-help books can help you grow and reflect on the past. One of the best self-help books in the nation, Burn After Writing is a journal filled with prompts to help you reflect while fueling creativity. Each prompt asks questions and presents thought experiences to help individuals learn new things about themselves.
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
    Written by a clinical psychologist, this self-improvement book discusses emotionally unavailable or immature parents and how it's destructive to children. Topics include how parents create neglect and how children can recover and free themselves from emotionally immature parents.
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
    This book has been one of the top self-help books since 1936, when it was originally published. The book teaches you how to make people like you.
  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a motivational self-help book that teaches individuals how to live in the present, rather than focusing on the past.
  • Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
    Attached is a book about dating that explains why some people are better at relationships than others, helping them to discover an understanding of attachment as an adult using relationship science.

Yes, self-help books work. However, it depends on the person. Reading a self-help book can help you learn different ways to improve yourself, but you must take action based on what you learn in the book. Self-help books help individuals feel more empowered to take control of their lives, but they're not right for everyone. Books are not a substitute for professional help when needed.

Self-help books are non-fiction because they're based on fact. Many self-help books use science or philosophy to help individuals become their best selves or learn about a topic.

Yes, Alibris sells new and used books of all kinds, including the best self-help books to help you feel more empowered in your daily life. Browse our selection of self-improvement books to find your next read.