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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

Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness Do Hard Things: Why We Get...

Steve Magness
Buy from $17.62

The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins The Garden Within: Where the...

Anita Phillips
Buy from $18.40

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 $13.79

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

Jennie Allen
Buy from $25.13

The 48 Laws of Power The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene, Joost Elffers (Producer)
Buy from $28.07

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Why Has Nobody Told Me This...

Dr. Julie Smith
Buy from $15.46

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness The Courage to Be Disliked:...

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Buy from $18.85

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos 12 Rules for Life: An...

Jordan B Peterson
Buy from $10.40

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes Same as Ever: A Guide to What...

Morgan Housel
Buy from $18.16

Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul Breath as Prayer: Calm Your...

Jennifer Tucker
Buy from $10.58

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Atlas of the Heart: Mapping...

Brené Brown
Buy from $11.46

Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded: A Proven Plan for Financial Peace Total Money Makeover Updated...

Dave Ramsey
Buy from $24.97

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 $14.87

The Secret The Secret

Rhonda Byrne
Buy from $1.80

Joyful Recollections of Trauma Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Paul Scheer
Buy from $25.02

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

Dr. John Delony, Dave Ramsey (Foreword by)
Buy from $16.30

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

Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D Perry
Buy from $13.89

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease How Not to Die: Discover the...

Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Buy from $12.36

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments The In-Between: Unforgettable...

Hadley Vlahos
Buy from $14.00

Disappointing Affirmations Disappointing Affirmations

Dave Tarnowski
Buy from $13.59

Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous

Anonymous
Buy from $8.99

Meditations: A New Translation Meditations: A New Translation

Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Translator)
Buy from $15.41

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

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

John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman
Buy from $13.86

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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.