How to Win Friends and Influence People
The classic guide to getting along with people, still useful nearly a century later.
Relationships
Our relationships shape our happiness more than almost anything else. These books explore love, attachment, friendship and family: why we connect the way we do, and how to build relationships that last.
They suit anyone who wants to understand recurring patterns, feel closer to a partner, or handle conflict with more care.
- 35 books
- 8 authors
If you read only one
Our essential picks in relationships.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The classic guide to getting along with people, still useful nearly a century later.
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Four simple promises to yourself that can free you from a lot of unhappiness.
Attached
Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understand your attachment style, and your relationships start to make sense.
The Four Agreements
Four simple promises to yourself that can free you from a lot of unhappiness.
Attached
Understand your attachment style, and your relationships start to make sense.
Daring Greatly
Vulnerability isn't weakness. It's where connection and courage begin.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
The classic parenting guide to communicating with children in ways that build cooperation and respect.
Nonviolent Communication
Say what you need without blame, and hear others without defensiveness.
The Art of Loving
A psychoanalyst argues that love is an art that requires knowledge, effort and practice, not something we simply fall…
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Research-based principles from decades of studying couples, from building friendship to managing conflict.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
A psychologist helps readers understand emotionally immature parents and heal from loneliness and self-doubt.
All About Love
A thoughtful exploration of what love really is, and why it requires care, respect, honesty and responsibility.
Codependent No More
The classic book that helped millions recognize codependency and start caring for themselves.
Come As You Are
A sex educator explains the science of women's sexuality and why everyone is normal in their own way.
Crucial Conversations
How to talk about hard things without blowing up or shutting down.
Difficult Conversations
Every difficult conversation is really three: what happened, feelings and identity. How to handle all three.
Hold Me Tight
Seven conversations that help couples break negative cycles and build secure emotional connection.
Leadership and Self-Deception
Most conflicts are fuelled by self-deception: seeing others as objects. A business parable about 'getting out of the…
Option B
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg and psychologist Adam Grant explore how to build resilience.
Permission to Feel
Emotions are information. A Yale researcher's practical framework for recognizing and managing them.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
A therapist's practical guide to recognizing when you need boundaries and setting them kindly.
Supercommunicators
Every conversation is one of three kinds: practical, emotional or social. Connect by matching the right one.
The 5 Love Languages
Learn how your partner feels loved, and speak their language.
The Prophet
Poetic essays on love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow and death, spoken by a departing prophet.
The Road Less Traveled
Life is difficult, and accepting that is the start of growth. A classic on discipline, love and spiritual development.
The Whole-Brain Child
Twelve strategies based on brain development to help parents turn everyday struggles into growth for their children.
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