Books like The Secret

If you liked The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Four Agreements

    Don Miguel Ruiz · 1997

    Because shares tags: spirituality, self help, personal growth.

    Don Miguel Ruiz offers four Toltec agreements for personal freedom: impeccable word, detachment, curiosity, and effort.

  2. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: self help, success.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  3. The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle · 1997

    Because shares tags: spirituality, self help.

    Tolle argues pain comes from mind chatter and peace from full attention to now.

  4. Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006

    Because shares tags: spirituality, self help.

    Eat, Pray, Love retold: divorce, Italy for pleasure, India for practice, Bali for balance.

  5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

    Marie Kondo · 2011

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.

  6. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  7. Untamed

    Glennon Doyle · 2020

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.

  8. The Five Love Languages

    Gary Chapman · 1992

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Chapman maps words, time, gifts, service, and touch through counseling stories and the empty love-tank idea.

  9. Quiet

    Susan Cain · 2012

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.

  10. The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · 2012

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste…

  11. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Stephen R. Covey · 1989

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Covey's famous framework for living by principle: seven habits that move from private victory to working well with others.

  12. Outliers: The Story of Success

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008

    Because shares tag: success.

    Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.

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