Thousands of books have been written offering the 'secrets' to personal fulfillment and happiness: how to walk The Road Less Traveled, How To Win Friends and Influence People, or Awaken the Giant Within. But which are the all-time classics? Which ones really can change your life? Bringing you the essential ideas, insights and techniques from 50 legendary works from Lao-Tzu to Benjamin Franklin to Paulo Coelho, 50 Self-Help Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on happiness and fulfilment is a unique guide to the great works of life transformation.
This is the only book to distill the classic, life-changing texts on happiness and fulfilment. New chapters include David Brooks' The Road to Character, Clayton Christensen's How Will You Measure Your Life?, Mari Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Personal Development, Psychology
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312 pages
Published By: January 30, 2003 by Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 9781857883237 (ISBN10: 1857883233)
Language: English
Below is the list of books covered in 50 Self-Help Classics. Click on the links to view sample chapters.
- James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904)
- Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2nd Century)
- The Bhagavad-Gita
- The Bible
- Robert Bly Iron John (1990)
- Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (6thC)
- Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
- William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980)
- David Brooks The Road to Character (2015)
- Brené Brown Daring Greatly (2012)
- David D Burns The New Mood Therapy (1980)
- Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth (1988)
- Richard Carlson Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (1997)
- Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
- Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994)
- Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)
- Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (1988)
- Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991)
- The Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler The Art of Happiness (1999)
- The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings)
- Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit (2011)
- Wayne Dyer Real Magic (1992)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841)
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves (1996)
- Viktor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning (1959)
- Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (1790)
- Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization (1982)
- Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence (1995)
- John Gray Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (1992)
- Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life (1984)
- James Hillman The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996)
- Susan Jeffers Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987)
- Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle (1998)
- Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014)
- Ellen Langer Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (1989)
- Lao-Tzu Tao-te Ching (The Way of Power)
- Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)
- Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954)
- Thomas Moore Care of the Soul (1992)
- Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)
- Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
- M Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled (1990)
- Anthony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within (1991)
- Florence Scovell-Shinn The Game of Life and How To Play It (1923)
- Martin Seligman Learned Optimism (1991)
- Samuel Smiles Self-Help (1859)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
- Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)
- Marianne Williamson A Return To Love (1993)