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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

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win Extreme Ownership: How U.S....

Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Buy new from $21.77

Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life Worthy: How to Believe You...

Jamie Kern Lima
Buy new from $25.13

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do about It Untangle Your Emotions:...

Jennie Allen
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The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition The Artist's Way: 30th...

Julia Cameron
Buy new from $19.57

Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World Day Trading Attention: How to...

Gary Vaynerchuk
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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma ...

Richard Schwartz
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The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire The Way of the Superior Man:...

David Deida
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Summer Bridge Activities, Grades 1 - 2: Volume 3 Summer Bridge Activities,...

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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World The Ruthless Elimination of...

John Mark Comer
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As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve As Long as You Need:...

J S Park
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Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life Boundaries Updated and...

Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery The Mountain Is You:...

Brianna Wiest
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Crucial Conversations: Tools...

Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living The Daily Stoic: 366...

Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, ... (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) The Dialectical Behavior...

Matthew McKay
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Summer Bridge Activities, Grades K - 1: Volume 2 Summer Bridge Activities,...

Summer Bridge Activities (Compiled by)
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself The Untethered Soul: The...

Michael A Singer
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Summer Bridge Activities, Grades 3 - 4: Volume 5 Summer Bridge Activities,...

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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle It Didn't Start with You: How...

Mark Wolynn
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. Dare to Lead: Brave Work....

Bren? Brown
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The Easy and Relaxing Memory Activity Book For Adults: Includes Relaxing Memory Activities, Easy Puzzles, Brain Games and More The Easy and Relaxing Memory...

J D Kinnest
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos 12 Rules for Life: An...

Jordan B. Peterson
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It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand It's Ok That You're Not Ok:...

Megan Devine
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The Pivot Year The Pivot Year

Brianna Wiest
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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.