From love and work, life and death, here are some of the best self-help books I found in 2021 (reviewed, and also interviewed the authors!) That can help you to deal with all of the slings and arrows of modern life.

Best self-help books of 2021

📚 No Cure for Being Human: (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) – Kate Bowler

📚 Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know – Adam Grant

📚 Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most – Greg McKeown

📚 How to Be Broken: The Advantages of Falling Apart – Dr Emma Kavanagh

📚 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman

📚 Alonement: How to be Alone and Absolutely Own it – Francesca Specter

📚 Noise – Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and Olivier Sibony

📚 A Manual for Being Human – Dr Sophie Mort

📚 Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength – Poorna Bell (check out the interview with the author in episode 48)

📚 The End of Bias: A Beginning – Jessica Nordell (check out the interview with the author in episode 44)

📚 How to Work Without Losing Your Mind – Cate Sevilla (check out the interview with the author in episode 9)

📚 How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – Katy Milkman

📚 How to Be Sad: Everything I’ve Learned about Getting Happier, by Being Sad, Better – Helen Russell (check out the interview with the author in episode 27)

📚 Blank: Why It’s Fine to Falter and Fail, and How to Pick Yourself Up Again – Jim Daley and Giles Paley-Phillips (check out the interview with the author in episode 32)

Which ones have you read, and would recommend?

PS. I don’t get a commission for reviewing books.