r/selfimprovement · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/selfimprovement during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/selfimprovement within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2023

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

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.

17 in 2023

Atomic Habits

James Clear

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

7 in 2023

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.

7 in 2023

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.

6 in 2023

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.

4 in 2023

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.

3 in 2023

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 2023

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.

2 in 2023

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.

2 in 2023

#10

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 2023

#11

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 2023

#12

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

You get about four thousand weeks total, and Oliver Burkeman spends the whole book arguing your to-do list was never going to fit inside them.

1 in 2023

#13

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.

1 in 2023