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r/selfimprovement · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/selfimprovement during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/selfimprovement within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2022
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People #1

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

A 1936 salesman's manual argues you'll get further remembering someone's name and asking about their day than by being right.

20 in 2022
Cover of Atomic Habits #2

Atomic Habits

James Clear

James Clear argues that habits built two minutes at a time compound, over a year, into a completely different person.

17 in 2022
Cover of Meditations #3

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.

15 in 2022
Cover of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck #4

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Mark Manson's case that choosing what to care about is the only self-help move that actually matters.

12 in 2022
Cover of Can't Hurt Me #5

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

A Navy SEAL turned ultra-runner narrates his own worst years first, then explains how he used them as training.

11 in 2022
Cover of Man's Search for Meaning #6

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist survives three concentration camps and concludes the ones who lived weren't the strongest, they were the ones who still had a reason to.

6 in 2022
Cover of Mindset #7

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

A Stanford psychologist argues that believing your abilities can grow is itself the ability that determines whether they do.

5 in 2022
Cover of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People #8

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

Before you fix your calendar, this book makes you write a personal mission statement about what you're scheduling around in the first place.

5 in 2022
Cover of Feeling Good #9

Feeling Good

David D. Burns

David Burns hands depressed readers a list of ten named thinking errors and a worksheet to catch themselves making one.

4 in 2022
Cover of Getting Things Done #10

Getting Things Done

David Allen

A management consultant argues your brain is for having ideas, not storing them, and hands you a five-step system to empty it.

3 in 2022
Cover of No More Mr. Nice Guy #11

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Robert A. Glover

A therapist diagnoses the Nice Guy syndrome — covert contracts, approval-seeking, hidden resentment — and explains why it makes men worse partners and worse people.

3 in 2022
Cover of The Daily Stoic #12

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday turns Stoic philosophy into one page per day, and r/Stoicism argues about whether that makes it a gateway or a ceiling.

3 in 2022
Cover of The Power of Now #13

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.

3 in 2022
Cover of Grit #14

Grit

Angela Duckworth

A psychologist studies West Point cadets, spelling bee kids, and salespeople to find one trait that predicts who finishes what they start.

2 in 2022
Cover of Make Your Bed #15

Make Your Bed

William H. McRaven

A retired Navy SEAL admiral turns his university commencement speech into ten rules, starting with the one nobody argues with: make your bed.

2 in 2022
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score #16

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.

2 in 2022
Cover of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem #17

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

Nathaniel Branden's clinical case that self-esteem is built on six named practices — and that fixing surface behavior without them doesn't hold.

2 in 2022
Cover of The War of Art #18

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield names the force that keeps you from starting the novel, the workout, or the startup — he calls it Resistance — then tells you how to outlast it.

2 in 2022
Cover of Tiny Habits #19

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg

A Stanford behavior scientist argues that the smallest version of a habit — not willpower — is the one that actually sticks.

2 in 2022
Cover of Deep Work #20

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Cal Newport keeps his phone in a drawer and his calendar walled off in four-hour blocks, and argues that's the only way anyone still produces work that matters.

1 in 2022
Cover of Ego Is the Enemy #21

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday's case for subordinating ego to craft draws 41 Reddit mentions, most from r/Stoicism, where the book is treated as a gateway to the primary sources.

1 in 2022
Cover of The 4-Hour Workweek #22

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss

A guy quits his cubicle, outsources his own job to a virtual assistant, and starts running his business from wherever he wants.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Compound Effect #23

The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy

Darren Hardy's argument that small consistent choices compound into large results — and that most people underestimate that gap until it's too late to ignore.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Slight Edge #24

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

Jeff Olson's core argument: the actions that would change your life are easy to do, which is exactly why they're easy not to do.

1 in 2022