Here is a list of the best Happiness books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life (2018)
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill (2007)
- The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (2018)
- The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (2008)
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006)
- Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After (2018)
- Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (2016)
- Happiness: A Novel (2019)
- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (2008)
- The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything (2016)
- How Happiness Happens Study Guide: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations (2019)
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life (2018)
Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill (2007)
Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being?
The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (2018)
#1 New York Times BestsellerGretchen Rubin’s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation.
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (2008)
You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elemetns of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006)
The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations — to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing.
Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After (2018)
Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant―Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn’t want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends.
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (2016)
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this. Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy.
Happiness: A Novel (2019)
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide―Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna’s unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection.
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (2008)
Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression.
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything (2016)
What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband.
How Happiness Happens Study Guide: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations (2019)
There’s always a path to happiness that always delivers.Our culture tries to convince us there is one way to happiness: aspire, acquire, desire, retire. Happiness depends on what we hang in our closet, park in our garage, and deposit in our bank account. Yet, it’s a path that always fails to deliver.
Best Happiness Books You Should Enjoy
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Grindr Survivor: How to Find Happiness in the Age of Hookup Apps
Author(s): Andrew Londyn
ID: 2404555, Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC, Year: March 25, 2017, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Skogluft: Norwegian Secrets for Bringing Natural Air and Light into Your Home and Office to Dramatically Improve Health and Happiness
Author(s): Jørn Viumdal
ID: 2366709, Publisher: Harper Design, Year: 7 May 2019, Size: 44 Mb, Format: epub
Purpose and a Paycheck: Finding Meaning, Money, and Happiness in the Second Half of Life
Author(s): Chris Farrell
ID: 2325323, Publisher: AMACOM, Year: 5 Feb 2019, Size: 489 Kb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really hot items according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.