.png)
Originally posted here: FDS-Approved Self-help Books
In-Depth Learning: Self-help and vital information for women
Spotting Red Flags
📔 Why Does He do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men || Lundy Bancroft
📔 The Gift of Fear || Gavin De Becker
📔 Emotional Blackmail || Susan Forward
📔 Game's People Play || Eric Berne
📔 In Sheep's Clothing & Character Disturbance || George K Simon
📔 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking || Malcom Gladwell
📔 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know || Eric Berne
📔 Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception ||Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant
📔 Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People || Joe Navarro
📔 The Definitive Book of Body Language: How to read others' attitudes by their gestures || Allan Pease
📔 What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People || Joe Navarro
📔 Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us || Robert. D. Hare
📔 Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly || Evy Poumpouras
Childhood Trauma
📔 Complex PTSD || Pete Walker
📔 The Human Magnet Syndrome || Ross Rosenberg
📔 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents || Lindsay Gibson
📔 Growing up Again || Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson
📔 The Body Keeps the Score || Bessel van der Kolk
📔 It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle || Mark Wolynn
Healing
📔 Boundaries || Henry Cloud, John Townsend
📔 Psychopath Free || Jackson MacKenzie
📔 When I Say No I Feel Guilty || Manuel J. Smith
📔 The Art of Saying No || Damon Zahariades
📔 Not Nice || Aziz Gazipura
📔 Codependent No More || Melanie Beatty
📔 Beyond Codependency || Melanie Beatty
📔 Women Who Love Too Much || Robin Norwood
📔 Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect || Jonice Webb
📔 Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children || Jonice Webb
📔 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy || David Burns
📔 The Sexual Healing Journey || Wendy Maltz
📔 Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward || Gemma Hartley
📔 The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance || Matthew Mckay
Self Improvement
📔 The Power of Habit || Charles Duhigg
📔 Atomic Habits || James Clear
📔 The Defining Decade || Meg Jay
📔 Daring Greatly || Brene Brown
📔 The Four Agreements || Don Miguel Ruiz
📔 How to Break Out of Prison || John Wareham
📔 Getting Things Done || David Allen
📔 Highly Intuitive People: 7 Right-Brain Traits to Change the Lives of Intuitive-Sensitive People || Heidi Sawyer
📔 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People || Stephen R. Covey
📔 The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up || Marie Kondo
📔 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck || Mark Manson
📔 When Things Fall Apart || Pema Chodron
📔 The Power of Now || Eckhart Tolle
📔 The Bullet Journal Method || Ryder Carroll
📔 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life || Kenneth Strongman
📔 Why We Sleep || Matthew Walker
📔 Insecure in Love || Leslie Becker Philips
Female Empowerment, History & Education
📔 Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype || Clarissa Pinkola Estés
📔 Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings || Marlene Wagman-Geller
📔 Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama || Deborah Coughlin
📔 Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women || Eleanor Mills
📔 Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Women of Literature || Becca Anderson
📔 The Warrior Goddess Training Program: Becoming the Woman You Are Meant to Be || HeatherAsh Amara
📔 Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives || Jean Shinoda Bolen
📔 Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World || Mackenzi Lee, Petra Eriksson
📔 Bad Girls Throughout History || Ann Shen
📔 In Praise of Difficult Women || Karen Karbo
📔 Women and Power: A Manifesto || Mary Beard
📔 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban || Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
📔 The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg || Susan B Katz (An inspiring biography about the famous female lawyer who fought to establish sex discrimination legislation in the US during the 70's)
📔 The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion || Gloria Steinem
📔 City of Omens || Dan Webb ( About the harms of the sex trade and the women who go missing at the South American border)
📔 Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems || Audre Lorde
📔 The Creation of Patriarchy || Gerda Lerner
📔 The Suffragettes || Penguin Little Black Classics
Health and Fitness
📔 The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food || Rachel Kelly
📔 Period Power || Maisie Hill
Special Section: Recommendation by Forum Members
Credit to @erythrura
📔 Invisible Women. Exposing data bias in a world designed for men || Caroline Criado Perez
📔 How to win friends and influence people || Dale Carnegie
Credit to @Runner_Woman
📔 The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility || Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
📔 Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide To Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, And Reproductive Health || Toni Weschler
Credit to @supernova
📔 Making space: women and the man-made environment
📔 Down girl: The logic of misogyny
📔 In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
Credit to @golddustwoman
📔 All About Love || Bell Hooks
📔 Communion: The Female Search for Love || Bell Hooks
📔 Obsessive Love: When It Hurts too Much to Let go || Susan Forward
📔 Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession || Lisa Phillips
📔 Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts || Sally Winston
📔 Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers || Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
📔 Lost Goddesses of Early Greece || Charlene Spretnak
READ THE HANDBOOK BEFORE POSTING!
The handbook posts project.
Amazing post!
Can we also recommend additional books for the list?
If so, I would propose adding
"Invisible Women. Exposing data bias in a world designed for men" by Caroline Criado Perez to the history section and
"How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie to self improvement (and maybe to the spotting red flags part, too, because the described techniques can obviously also be used against you).
I’ll chip in with a recommendation as well, if I may: “Making space: women and the man-made environment” is a great read as well as “Down girl: The logic of misogyny”
I also really enjoyed reading “In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial” where the author
Wow!!! Thank you so much for this amazing list!! I’m excited to go through all of them! Can you also add the following 2 books to the “Health and fitness” section. #1- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility by: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack —->I found this book life changing in my ability to understand my overall health as a women and to be able to learn how to chart our cycles. As women our menstrual health is one of vital signs that helps regulate hormones that function not only for reproduction but for cardio, respiratory, gut, mental health etc. The author provides science-base evidence on how to improve diet, sleep, plan, achieve or avoid pregnancy. #2- Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide To Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, And Reproductive Health by: Toni Weschler —> This is the holy grail on how to be able to learn “fertility awareness method”. It provides step by step information on how to avoid pregnancy natural and achieve pregnancy. It goes into methods/strategies to help manage thyroid, PCOS, endometriosis etc. I would highly recommend it as just a way to become more empowered with your health.
Can we get this post pinned!?? Thanks for sharing Queen. I’m happy to say that a lot of those books I currently have copies of or are on my reading list.
I just spent a few hundred on books for myself….what’s a couple more….lol thanks for the list
Great list! Thank you for sharing! Was waiting for this list🥰
Does anyone have non fictional book recommendations as well?
Some books I also recommend:
All About Love by bell hooks
Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
Obsessive Love: When It Hurts too Much to Let go by Susan Forward
Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa Phillips
Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts by Sally Winston
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak
Thank youuu ❤
Self Improvement: "Tiny Habits" B.J Fogg
Female Empowerment: "A Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Woman" by Lindy Elkins-Tanton
i’d also like to add ROAR and Next Level by Dr. Stacy Sims.