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Books for stress
531 entries pulled from 54 stacks. Default order is consensus: the number of tracked people who have publicly backed each one.
58 entries
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl on surviving the camps and choosing your response
Backed by 4 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 2 recommend it, 2 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.02
The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
Backed by 4 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 3 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.03
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
Backed by 3 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 3 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.04
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy for using much less technology, on purpose
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.05
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
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Slow Productivity
Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.07
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt on what smartphones and social media did to childhood after 2010
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Awareness
Anthony de Mello's talks on waking up, mostly about beliefs you never examined
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Breath
James Nestor on nasal breathing, and what modern jaws lost
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Build the Life You Want
Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey on the science of getting happier
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Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.12
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
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Endurance
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, from the ship breaking up to the rescue
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Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
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Heavily Meditated
Dave Asprey on shortcuts to deep meditative states with breath, feedback and pain
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Here is New York
E.B. White's 1949 essay on the city, short enough to read in an hour
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Hold Me Tight
Sue Johnson on the conversations that repair an adult relationship
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's 1980 parenting manual on listening
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Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.21
Leaders Eat Last
Why some teams pull together and others fall apart
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Linchpin
Godin's 2010 argument for doing work nobody else could have handed in
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius writing to himself, the founding text of practical Stoicism
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Never Finished
Goggins's second book: what he did after the first one made him famous
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Option B
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on resilience after loss
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Psych
Judd Biasiotto on the mental training behind record-setting powerlifting
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Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
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Same as Ever
Twenty three short stories about the parts of human behavior that never change
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Stillness Is the Key
The third of Ryan Holiday's Stoic books, on the mind, spirit and body at rest
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The 5 Types of Wealth
Bloom's 2025 book on measuring wealth as time, social, mental, physical and financial
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho's short novel about a shepherd following his personal legend
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The Art of Possibility
Twelve practices from a conductor and a therapist for changing how you see things
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The Art of Spending Money
On using money rather than accumulating it, and why no formula fits everyone
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The Book of Awakening
Mark Nepo's page-a-day reflections, read one morning at a time
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The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's last novel: faith, doubt, and what people owe each other
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The Dip
When to quit and when to push through the hard middle of a project
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz's short 1997 book on four rules for living, rooted in Toltec tradition
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe's plain-language introduction to a ten-minute daily practice
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The High 5 Habit
Mel Robbins on a daily high five in the mirror and the self-talk behind it
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The Infinite Game
Business as a game with no finish line, built on James Carse's idea
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey's 1974 classic on quieting self-criticism to perform under pressure
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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham's 1949 classic on value investing and the moods of Mr. Market
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The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins on releasing control over other people and reclaiming your own attention
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John Bogle's short case for owning the whole market cheaply and leaving it alone
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward
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The Overstory
Richard Powers's Pulitzer-winning novel in which trees turn out to be the main character
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The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle on stepping out of the running commentary in your head
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The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short chapters on how people behave with money, not on what to buy
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of an English butler looking back on a life of duty and regret
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks on the commitments that follow the first climb of career and status
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's novel of Cora's escape from a Georgia plantation
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The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer on the voice in your head, and what changes when you stop believing it
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The Wisdom of Sundays
Super Soul Sunday conversations excerpted, with Winfrey's own commentary
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This Is Water
The Kenyon commencement speech by the author of Infinite Jest, about a 15-minute read
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Together is Better
An illustrated fable about asking for help, made to be given away
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What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey's collected O magazine columns, grouped by theme
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon's memoir, written while he was dying of lung cancer at 36
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed's 1940 comedy about Wall Street, still accurate about fees and forecasts
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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