This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Ways To Help Oneself and Life Lessons
This list includes topics that for self-help and general life lessons.
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- Five Questions to Finding Peace of Mind and Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
- In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life by Thomas Jordan
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
- The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
- The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
