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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021, recommended by Emma Gannon

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    by Oliver Burkeman

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens

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    Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
    by Beth Pickens

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

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    Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
    by Nedra Glover Tawwab

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck

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    The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
    by Martha Beck

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection by Julia Cameron

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    Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection
    by Julia Cameron

  • Lockdowns have forced many of us to pause and consider the way we are living our lives, says the podcaster and bestselling author Emma Gannon. Here she highlights five of the best self help books published in 2021, with a special focus on creativity and setting better boundaries to safeguard our time and energy.

  • The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2021 - Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection by Julia Cameron

The Best Self Help Books of 2021, recommended by Emma Gannon

Lockdowns have forced many of us to pause and consider the way we are living our lives, says the podcaster and bestselling author Emma Gannon. Here she highlights five of the best self help books published in 2021, with a special focus on creativity and setting better boundaries to safeguard our time and energy.

The Best Self Help Books of 2021, recommended by Emma Gannon

    The Best Self Help Books of 2020, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder by Richard Rohr

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    The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder
    by Richard Rohr

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage by Philip Goldberg

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    Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage
    by Philip Goldberg

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - How to Be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy by Beverley Clack

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    How to Be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy
    by Beverley Clack

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century by Adam Davidson

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    The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
    by Adam Davidson

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    The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home

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    The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home

  • We asked Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian writer and author of The Antidote, to select the best self help books published in 2020. His recommended titles include spiritual guidance for the age of doomscrolling, a philosophy of failure, and practical advice for those working from home for the first time.

  • The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder by Richard Rohr
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage by Philip Goldberg
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - How to Be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy by Beverley Clack
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century by Adam Davidson
  • The Best Self Help Books of 2020 - The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home

The Best Self Help Books of 2020, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

We asked Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian writer and author of The Antidote, to select the best self help books published in 2020. His recommended titles include spiritual guidance for the age of doomscrolling, a philosophy of failure, and practical advice for those working from home for the first time.

The Best Self Help Books of 2020, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

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    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

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    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
    by Lori Gottlieb

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    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It by David Zahl

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    Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It
    by David Zahl

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    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

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    The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
    by David Brooks

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    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - In Search of Silence by Poorna Bell

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    In Search of Silence
    by Poorna Bell

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    The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund

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    This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
    by Martin Hägglund

  • The self-help genre is sometimes dismissed as simplistic or over-earnest. But, at their best, self-help books offer powerful insights into how to live. Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian columnist and author of The Antidote, recommends five of the best self-help books published in 2019.

  • The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
  • The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It by David Zahl
  • The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
  • The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - In Search of Silence by Poorna Bell
  • The Best Self-Help Books of 2019 - This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund

The Best Self-Help Books of 2019, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

The self-help genre is sometimes dismissed as simplistic or over-earnest. But, at their best, self-help books offer powerful insights into how to live. Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian columnist and author of The Antidote, recommends five of the best self-help books published in 2019.

The Best Self-Help Books of 2019, recommended by Oliver Burkeman

    The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen

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    The best books on Productivity - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J Levitin

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    The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
    by Daniel J Levitin

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    The best books on Productivity - BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms by Theo Compernolle

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    BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms
    by Theo Compernolle

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    The best books on Productivity - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

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    The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
    by Atul Gawande

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    The best books on Productivity - The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

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    The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
    by Kevin Kelly

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    The best books on Productivity - The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman

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    The Antidote
    by Oliver Burkeman

  • If you feel like you lose whole days to procrastination or indecision—or simply have too much to do!—you probably want advice on how improve your productivity. We spoke to David Allen, creator of the perennial bestseller Getting Things Done, about the best books on the subject: why we waste time, and what we can change to be more productive.

  • The best books on Productivity - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J Levitin
  • The best books on Productivity - BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms by Theo Compernolle
  • The best books on Productivity - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  • The best books on Productivity - The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
  • The best books on Productivity - The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman

The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen

If you feel like you lose whole days to procrastination or indecision—or simply have too much to do!—you probably want advice on how improve your productivity. We spoke to David Allen, creator of the perennial bestseller Getting Things Done, about the best books on the subject: why we waste time, and what we can change to be more productive.

The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen

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