📚 Personal Growth

Books with personal growth on their catalogue record, first published between 1952 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject personal growth in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,734 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	1952	91
	The 48 Laws of Power	Robert Greene	1998	51
	Atomic Habits	James Clear	2016	42
	Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	1995	40
	Big Magic	Elizabeth Gilbert	2014	31
	Influence	Robert B. Cialdini	1983	28
	12 Rules for Life	Jordan B. Peterson	2015	26
	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	2012	22
	You Are a Badass	Jen Sincero	2013	17
	嫌われる勇気	Ichirō Kishimi	2013	17
	Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible	Brian Tracy	2003	16
	Improve Your Communication Skills	Alan Barker	2010	15
	Becoming Your Own Emotional Support System	Linda L. Simmons	2006	10
	How to Organize Yourself	John Caunt	2013	10
	The Road to Character	David Brooks	2015	10
	It didn't start with you	Mark Wolynn	2016	10
	Ultralearning	Scott Young	2019	10
	The happiness advantage	Shawn Achor	2010	8
	The things you can see only when you slow down	Haemin Sunim	2017	8
	100 Ways to Motivate Yourself	Steve Chandler	1996	7
	Enhancing self-esteem	C. Jesse Carlock	1999	7
	Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?	Julie Smith	2022	7
	Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook	Lucy Leu	2003	6
	Strategies for creative problem solving	H. Scott Fogler	1995	5
	One day my soul just opened up	Iyanla Vanzant	1998	5
	Life Wide Open	David Jeremiah	2003	5
	The culture code	Daniel Coyle	2018	5
	The intelligent optimist's guide to life	Jurriaan Kamp	2014	3
	The happiness track	Emma Seppala	2016	3
	A Gentle Reminder	Bianca Sparacino	2020	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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