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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 Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times The Book of Hope: A Survival...

Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams (Read by)
Buy from $4.80

On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success On Purpose: The Busy Woman's...

Tanya Dalton
Buy from $9.88

Wake Up!: The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind about What It Means to Really Live Wake Up!: The Powerful Guide...

Lindsay Teague Moreno
Buy from $9.86

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

Joyce Meyer, Jodi Carlisle (Read by)
Buy from $7.04

Messy Hope: Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety, Depression, or Suicidal Ideation Messy Hope: Help Your Child...

Lori Wildenberg, Jaimee Draper (Narrator)
Buy from $70.58

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism Consumed: The Need for...

Aja Barber
Buy from $17.95

The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness The Whole Language: The Power...

Gregory Boyle
Buy from $78.12

How to Speak How to Listen How to Speak How to Listen

Mortimer J Adler, Harold N Cropp (Read by)
Buy from $65.47

Built Through Courage: Face Your Fears to Live the Life You Were Meant for Built Through Courage: Face...

Dave Hollis
Buy from $9.88

Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact Impact Players: How to Take...

Liz Wiseman
Buy from $21.31

Wake Up!: The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind about What It Means to Really Live Wake Up!: The Powerful Guide...

Lindsay Teague Moreno
Buy from $33.07

Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace Right Within: How to Heal...

Minda Harts
Buy from $99.37

We're Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris: How to Use Your Voice, Be Assertive, and Own Your Story We're Speaking: The Life...

Hitha Palepu
Buy from $20.38

Tickled: A Commonsense Guide to the Present Moment Tickled: A Commonsense Guide...

Duff McDonald, Sean Pratt (Read by)
Buy from $23.68

Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir Flesh & Blood: Reflections on...

N West Moss, Erin Spencer (Read by)
Buy from $50.00

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers Credible: Why We Doubt...

Deborah Tuerkheimer, Courtney Patterson (Read by)
Buy from $22.24

Tickled Lib/E: A Commonsense Guide to the Present Moment Tickled Lib/E: A Commonsense...

Duff McDonald, Sean Pratt (Read by)
Buy from $35.76

Discovering Unexpected Gifts: In the Midst and Through the Chaos of Life Discovering Unexpected Gifts:...

Stephen Now
Buy from $13.35

Impact Players Lib/E: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact Impact Players Lib/E: How to...

Liz Wiseman
Buy from $35.76

Cleopatra's Riches: How to Earn, Grow, and Enjoy Your Money to Enrich Your Life Cleopatra's Riches: How to...

Martha Adams, Bob Proctor (Foreword by)
Buy from $15.68

Stressed Out: Causes, Effects, and Keeping Calm Stressed Out: Causes, Effects...

Scientific American, Suzie Althens (Read by)
Buy from $15.68

Authentically, Uniquely You: Living Free from Comparison and the Need to Please Authentically, Uniquely You:...

Joyce Meyer
Buy from $9.96

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You Undoing Depression: What...

Richard O'Connor, Allan Robertson (Read by)
Buy from $20.41

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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.