The books I keep coming back to, and the ones I think about long after I've finished them. There's a shelf of guided journals too, for the nights you'd rather write than read.
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MindPanda Reflect Journal
A guided journal with a daily prompt, plus a habit tracker and a mood tracker.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman points out that the average life is about four thousand weeks long. His argument is that you'll never get everything done, and that accepting this frees you to spend your time on what matters most.
The Other Side of Change
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans. She trained as a violinist until a hand injury ended that career. For this book she interviewed people who went through big changes they didn't choose, and combined their stories with research on how people find meaning afterward.
The Balancing Act
Nedra Glover Tawwab is a therapist and the author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace. In this book she looks at the balance between depending on other people and protecting yourself. Giving too much can cost you your sense of self, and holding back too much can leave you isolated. She covers codependency, hyper independence and attachment styles, and each chapter ends with reflection prompts.
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins wrote this book with her daughter, Sawyer Robbins. When other people do things you can't control, let them, and put your energy into the things you can.
Why Am I Like This?
Sabrina Zohar writes about the patterns people repeat in relationships. She uses psychology and nervous system research to explain where those patterns come from and how to break them. It came out in October.
Radical Surrender
Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist at Stanford and the author of Dopamine Nation. Her new book is about control. She connects a lot of modern anxiety and loneliness to the need to control everything, and argues that letting go and accepting uncertainty can improve relationships and parenting.
The Life Designer Journal
A guided life planner and goal setting journal from Intelligent Change, the company that makes the Five Minute Journal.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel writes short chapters about how people make decisions with money, and why those decisions often have more to do with feelings and experience than with math.