A successful business-focused self-help book starts with a clear message and a real understanding of your audience.

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These claims are compelling. They make me pause and ask a deeper question: Are self-help books really helping us? I’ll say this up front: One book cannot change your life. One self-help book will not ...

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It is anti-help insofar as it emphasizes radical self-acceptance and also insofar as it emphasizes remaining in the present. (Improvement, needless to say, requires you to focus on the future.) ...

Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to.

It's everywhere. That makes self-help seem a lot more normal and natural. It also, though, makes the genre seem inescapable. People have always wanted practical wisdom from their reading, Blum argues.

If self-help is about how to do, self-care is about how to not do. Self-care, though, has no organizing rules, slogans or major, best-selling books — yet.

News Best Self-Help Reads for Black Resilience in Uncertain Times In these challenging times, these books can give you the hope you need. By Angela Johnson Published July 3, 2025 ...