I am reading a book called True North by Bill George about authentic leadership. It is pretty good, although I don’t admire all the leaders he interviews quite as much as he does. 
But it is food for thought.
Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud.
An excellent resource for maintaining healthy relationships.
So many good books, so little time! Off the top of my head, not necessarily favorites. “The New Arthritis Breakthrough” by Henry Scammell. “Full Catastrophe Living” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. “Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert. “Kids Are Worth It” by Barbara Coloroso.
Time management books by Laura Vanderkam.
Surprised that no one has mentioned this book–I’m an neatness nerd/organizational freak, but this book even but me to shame. I loved it.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The japanese art of Decluttering and Organizing.
I just read that book (the life-changing magic of tidying up) @Bromfield2 and it just didn’t speak to me. It was so obvious that the author of that book was single. While many of her ideas were good, the entire philosophy is, I think, unreasonable for a household with children.
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” saved a lot of pointless arguments from happening over the years.
“How to Talk to Anyone”-- Leil Lowndes. How to start conversations (great for introverts).
Don Aslett books on cleaning house. He has so many now I don’t know which one I read but it had what tools to use and how to do it QUICK! Life changing at the time.
Time Management from the Inside Out–Julie Morgenstern
The Difficult Child by Turecki
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
“When Your Child Drives You Crazy” by Eda LeShan published in 1985
It is full of calm reassuring wisdom. Somewhat out of date, but was a book I flipped through, not so much for “how to” advice, but for reassurance that whatever my kid was doing was perfectly normal under the circumstances, and for his age. I still have a ratty, much thumbed copy of it.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard (Heath Brothers) — nominally about business but actually the advice transfers quite nicely to any situation where you need to change how things are going.
Then Just Stay Fat (Shannon Sorels) – this is a nasty little book about how to lose weight. At $5 for Kindle, it is probably overpriced, since it’s only about 50 pages (theoretically it’s longer than that, but not really). However, I’ve reread it about five times–when I’m hungry and thinking about reaching for a LARGE piece of cake. She makes the point, over and over, nastily, that eating too much is as much a choice as anything else. It resonates for me.
Don’t Shoot the Dog (Karen Pryor) – the theories of training that she presents apply to anything with a brainstem: what gets rewarded gets repeated. Understanding that has changed my life in many ways.
Fast After Fifty (Joe Friel) – on fitness for endurance races as I get older. Very useful.
The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin) – the key idea is that your own happiness is something you control. Again, useful.
The Gift of Fear
If there is a narcissist or someone with Borderline Personality Disorder in your family, Stop Walking on Eggshells is fabulous.
“Financial Peace” by Dave Ramsey.
I look forward to researching and reading some of these books!
I am reading a book now by Sheryl Sandberg, the title is Lean in for Graduates. It is about how the world is different for women. Primarily having to do with societal expectations and cultural perceptions and how challenging and limiting these things are for women.
As the father of a soon to be 20 year old young woman I am very sensitive to these issues.
It is an excellent read that is very eye opening. I see this as a very beneficial book for most anyone, especially so for young women.
The Power of a Positive No by William Ury. I grew up a very shy doormat, and I really got walked all over and taken advantage of for years because I was afraid of people not liking me if I said “no” to them.
Interestingly, right after I read the book in my early 30’s, my parents informed me they’d be moving in with us (they would screw up financially and roost in various family members’ homes until kicked out). I finally stood up to them and said “no” (using the words in the book to phrase it positively). They stopped speaking to me at that point and we haven’t heard from them in nearly a decade. I am one of many people in the family that they’ve done this to.
The point of that story is that they used their affection and attention as a weapon to make people say “yes” to whatever they wanted, and it created SUCH a deficit in me in terms of being a strong, independent person that it took years to fix.
I may be a little too much on the badass battler side of “no”, now. I’m ok with that.
Better to be a dragon than a doormat.