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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

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

Michael Easter
Buy from $20.99

Building a Non-Anxious Life Building a Non-Anxious Life

Dr. John Delony, Dave Ramsey (Foreword by)
Buy from $16.99

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing What Happened to You?:...

Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D Perry
Buy from $12.92

Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous

Anonymous
Buy from $9.49

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon...

Timothy Ferriss
Buy from $12.68

Meditations: A New Translation Meditations: A New Translation

Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Translator)
Buy from $14.00

Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind... Don't Give the Enemy a Seat...

Louie Giglio
Buy from $14.99

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier Build the Life You Want: The...

Arthur C Brooks, Oprah Winfrey
Buy from $13.51

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups The Culture Code: The Secrets...

Daniel Coyle
Buy from $9.41

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

William H McRaven, Admiral
Buy from $10.40

The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery The Road Back to You: An...

Ian Morgan Cron, Suzanne Stabile
Buy from $7.99

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World What It Takes to Heal: How...

Prentis Hemphill
Buy from $26.66

The Secret The Secret

Rhonda Byrne
Buy from $0.99

Strength for Each Day: 365 Devotions to Make Every Day a Great Day Strength for Each Day: 365...

Joyce Meyer
Buy from $8.98

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self How to Do the Work: Recognize...

Dr. Nicole Lepera
Buy from $10.44

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

Gary John Bishop
Buy from $11.96

Untamed Untamed

Glennon Doyle
Buy from $8.07

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave Courage Is Calling: Fortune...

Ryan Holiday
Buy from $13.58

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 $14.95

The Laws of Human Nature The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene
Buy from $21.45

Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships Change Your Brain Every Day:...

Amen MD Daniel G
Buy from $18.27

The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease The How Not to Die Cookbook:...

Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Buy from $10.70

Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less Smart Brevity: The Power of...

Jim Vandehei, Mike Allen
Buy from $17.74

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life Be Useful: Seven Tools for...

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Buy from $12.53

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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.