Mental Health Book Reviews Page 3

Brene Brown
Hazelden Publishing
2010
160 pages
$14.99 - $18.95

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Brene Brown's groundbreaking exploration of shame resilience and wholehearted living. A research-backed guide to releasing perfectionism and embracing your authentic self.

Stephanie Silberman
New Harbinger Publications
2009
224 pages
$12.95 - $26.95

The Insomnia Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Sleep You Need

A practical CBT-I workbook that teaches evidence-based sleep techniques through interactive exercises and self-assessment tools for lasting insomnia relief.

Kelly McGonigal
Penguin Random House
2019
272 pages
$12.99 - $17.99

The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

McGonigal's warm, science-backed case for why movement is a fundamental human joy we've forgotten to cherish

Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove
Avery
2005
320 pages
$14.99 - $18.00

The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle

A practical, science-based guide to strength training using six fundamental movements. Clear programs for beginners with proven results for muscle gain and fat loss.

Guy Leschziner
St. Martin's Press
2019
368 pages

The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

A masterful exploration of sleep neuroscience through real patient stories. Leschziner brings the science of nightmares and sleep disorders to life.

Jason Fung
Greystone Books
2016
296 pages
$22.95

The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

Jason Fung's insulin-focused model of obesity - readable and provocative, but more contested than the confident tone suggests.

Michael Pollan
Penguin Press
2006
450 pages
$19.00 - $28.00

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan's landmark food-chain investigation - one of the most important food books written in the last twenty years and essential context for any nutrition conversation.

Dr. Guy Meadows
Orion
2014
224 pages
$9.99 - $16.99

The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night

A revolutionary five-week program using mindfulness and ACT to help you stop fighting sleep and start sleeping naturally.

David Epstein
Current/Penguin Books
2013
352 pages
$12.99 - $20.00

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

A compelling dive into how genetics shapes athletic excellence, challenging the myth that hard work alone creates champions.

Rosalind D. Cartwright
Oxford University Press
2010
224 pages
$15.00 - $28.00

The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives

A landmark exploration of how sleep and dreams regulate emotions, by sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright. Essential reading for understanding the mind's 24-hour emotional cycle.

Michael A. Singer
New Harbinger Publications
2007
336 pages
$9.99 - $18.95

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

A transformative guide to freeing yourself from mental patterns that create suffering and discovering the peace that lies beyond your thoughts.

Gary Taubes
Knopf
2010
272 pages
$17.00

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

Gary Taubes's accessible pitch for the carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis - clear and provocative, but the thesis has been partially undermined by subsequent research.

Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge
Workman Publishing Company
2005
321 pages
$12.95 - $24.99

Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy — Until You're 80 and Beyond

A practical, science-backed guide to staying younger longer by building strength and vitality through exercise, nutrition, and social connection.

Dan Harris
Dey Street Books
2014
256 pages
$25.99

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

A veteran ABC news anchor's funny, sceptical memoir about how meditation quieted the voice in his head - the book that converted a million doubters.

James Clear
Avery
2018
320 pages
$27.00

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear's pragmatic, identity-based blueprint for building habits that stick - and a quietly effective mental health book.

Brene Brown
Gotham Books
2012
287 pages
$20.00 - $28.00

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brene Brown's research-based case for vulnerability - the book that turned a TED talk into a quiet revolution in how we talk about shame.

Gin Stephens
St. Martin's Griffin
2020
352 pages
$11.99 - $26.99

Fast. Feast. Repeat.: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny Intermittent Fasting

Gin Stephens's practical, community-driven guide to intermittent fasting - useful as an on-ramp, oversold in places on the specific mechanisms.

Michael Pollan
Penguin Books
2009
140 pages
$17.00

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan's sixty-four short rules for eating well - one of the most durable and quietly powerful nutrition books of the last twenty years.

David Perlmutter
Little, Brown Spark
2013
336 pages
$14.99 - $42.00

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers

A commercially huge anti-grain book on brain health - mainstream neurology and nutrition science do not endorse the central claims.

Johann Hari
Bloomsbury USA
2018
336 pages
$15.20 - $26.99

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

A provocative argument that depression is as much a disconnection as a chemical imbalance - persuasive, partial, and worth reading critically.

Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press
1959
192 pages
$10.99 - $24.00

Man's Search for Meaning

A psychiatrist's account of surviving Auschwitz, and the theory of meaning that emerged from it - one of the most quietly essential books of the twentieth century.

Lori Gottlieb
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2019
432 pages
$16.99 - $24.00

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

A therapist writes honestly about four patients - and her own therapist - in a warm, witty memoir that quietly demystifies the whole enterprise.

Brian Wansink
Bantam
2006
304 pages
$18.00

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

An originally influential book on environmental cues and eating - now substantially discredited by the author's research misconduct record.

Carol S. Dweck
Ballantine Books
2006
320 pages
$20.00 - $32.00

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck's distillation of decades of research into why how you think about your own abilities shapes almost everything you do.