r/Meditation · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/Meditation during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/Meditation within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2019

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

The Mind Illuminated

John Yates

A neuroscientist and a meditation teacher map ten stages from a wandering mind to sustained, effortless attention, with homework at every stage.

108 in 2019

10% Happier

Dan Harris

A skeptical television journalist follows panic, self-help, and Buddhist teachers toward meditation without promising enlightenment or a new personality.

29 in 2019

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A man on the verge of suicide has a single night that ends the self he thought he was and leaves behind a guide to living without it.

27 in 2019

Mindfulness in Plain English

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Gunaratana explains how to sit, attend to the breath, meet distraction, and keep practicing when meditation feels boring, frustrating, or pointless.

22 in 2019

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

A Roman emperor writes himself private notes on how to stop losing his temper, never expecting anyone else to read them, and two thousand years later everyone has.

5 in 2019

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

A science journalist argues meditation works because evolution wired your brain to lie to you about what actually makes you happy.

5 in 2019

Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life

Tom Holmes

An illustrated IFS guide that r/InternalFamilySystems hands to newcomers who want to start working with their parts before their next therapy session.

1 in 2019

The Attention Revolution

B. Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace presents ten stages of shamatha practice aimed at increasingly stable, vivid attention within a Tibetan Buddhist framework.

1 in 2019

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

1 in 2019