📚 Self-Help

The genre that advises itself into existence: from Smiles’s chapters to the modern argument about whether it works.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject self-help in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	643
	The Richest Man in Babylon	George S. Clason	1926	262
	The Power of Your Subconscious Mind	Joseph Murphy	1963	132
	Inquiry into Life	Sylvia S. Mader	1976	63
	The magic of believing	Claude M. Bristol	1948	61
	Big Magic	Elizabeth Gilbert	2014	31
	12 Rules for Life	Jordan B. Peterson	2015	26
	Think Like a Monk	Jay Shetty	2020	24
	Feeling Is the Secret	Neville Goddard	2004	22
	You Are a Badass	Jen Sincero	2013	17
	嫌われる勇気	Ichirō Kishimi	2013	17
	Boundaries	Henry Cloud	1992	15
	Improve Your Communication Skills	Alan Barker	2010	15
	What every BODY is saying	Joe Navarro	2008	12
	Your perfect right	Robert E. Alberti	1974	11
	Believe In Yourself (Hay House Classics)	Joseph Murphy	1955	10
	The porn trap	Wendy Maltz	2008	8
	In sheep's clothing	George K. Simon	1996	7
	Breaking the habit of being yourself	Joe Dispenza	2012	7
	101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think	Brianna Wiest	2018	6
	The law of attraction	Abraham (Spirit)	2006	4
	How to Become a People Magnet	Marc Reklau	2018	4
	Do Epic Shit	Ankur Warikoo	2021	4
	Control Your Mind and Master Your Feelings	Eric Robertson	2019	3
	A Gentle Reminder	Bianca Sparacino	2020	3
	Ignited Minds	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	2012	2
	The Rudest Book Ever	Shwetabh Gangwar	2019	2
	I Have to Tell You Something	Zara Bas	2022	2
	Declutter Your Mind	S. J. Scott	2016	1
	You're Too Good to Feel This Bad	Nate Dallas	2020	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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