Best Gratitude Books — 49 Honest Reviews
Every book below was read and judged on one question: will it change what you do on Monday morning? Each review tells you who should read it, who should skip it and the three ideas worth keeping.
Build the Life You Want
Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey · Gratitude
Gentle, grounded and readable; a good introduction to happiness as practice.
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman · Gratitude
A good daily companion; the practice matters more than the prose.
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In Praise of Slowness
Carl Honoré · Gratitude
An enjoyable, thoughtful survey; a philosophy more than a method.
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Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach · Gratitude
Wise and gentle; a different kind of self-help, and for some readers the right one.
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz · Gratitude
Small, simple and surprisingly hard to live; a good book to reread.
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The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren · Gratitude
A devotional, not a self-help book; excellent for its intended reader.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma · Gratitude
Sweet and simple; more useful than sophisticated readers will admit.
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Ikigai
Héctor García and Francesc Miralles · Gratitude
A calm, modest book; useful as a mood more than a method.
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The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris · Gratitude
Grounded, practical and humane; a strong choice for anxious high achievers. Not a substitute for care.
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The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle · Gratitude
Influential, repetitive and genuinely helpful to many; approach as practice, not doctrine.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · Gratitude
The essential text; a lifetime companion for a few dollars.
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The Fifth Agreement
Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz · Gratitude
A thoughtful sequel; secondary to the original, worthwhile for its readers.
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The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer · Gratitude
Clear, gentle and profound for the right reader; the practice is the book.
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie · Gratitude
A practical, underrated classic; still works.
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Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday · Gratitude
Quiet and readable; the gentlest of his books.
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Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty · Gratitude
Gentle, well-organized and a little smooth; a good entry point.
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Unwinding Anxiety
Judson Brewer · Gratitude
Clear, kind and practical; a strong self-help book for the anxious. Not a substitute for care.
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Wintering
Katherine May · Gratitude
Lovely and consoling; the rest-and-recovery book for difficult years.
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Bittersweet
Susan Cain · Gratitude
Gentle, thoughtful and validating; a book for the melancholic.
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Flourish
Martin E. P. Seligman · Gratitude
Important and sprawling; the exercises justify the read.
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Authentic Happiness
Martin E. P. Seligman · Gratitude
A readable primer; partly superseded, still useful for strengths.
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert · Gratitude
Witty and smart; the best book on why we are bad at predicting happiness.
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The How of Happiness
Sonja Lyubomirsky · Gratitude
Practical and grounded; a program, not a pep talk.
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Happier
Tal Ben-Shahar · Gratitude
Clear and gentle; a good first positive psychology book.
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Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson · Gratitude
Simple and kind; a small practice with real effects.
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The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler · Gratitude
Gentle and enduring; a wise companion.
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The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin · Gratitude
Practical and warm; a template more than a theory.
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Awe
Dacher Keltner · Gratitude
Beautiful and well-researched; a book about an underused emotion.
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt · Gratitude
Rich and readable; one of the best books on the subject.
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The Book of Ichigo Ichie
Héctor García and Francesc Miralles · Gratitude
One time, one meeting.
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The Gratitude Diaries
Janice Kaplan · Gratitude
Warm and readable; a good case for the practice.
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The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams · Gratitude
Warm, wise and genuinely joyful.
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