The Top 50 Wellness Books To Get If You Want To Learn To Write About Health

Following the health books list at Learning Your Craft From The Best Published Authors: Part 2, here are the direct Amazon links to all 50 Wellness Books.

As a health and wellness writer, you might well love reading around your own subject, but use this love for the self-help industry not only to feed your knowledge, but also to look at how writers are crafting books.

Figuring out how to write better by reading already-published business authors is crucial to getting your head around books.

As an editor, the difference between keen readers' manuscripts and authors who are not big readers is all-too obvious. It's why I'm so suspicious of those cookie-cutter programs that claim "I sold a best-selling 50,000 word book without writing a word".

Just no, dude.

If you want to be an author, aim higher than that. And do so by being an avid reader.

Here are those health, wellness and personal development favourites of mine.

1. In Defence of Food ~ Michael Pollan
2. The Happiness Trap ~ Russ Harris
3. The Road Less Travelled ~ M Scott Peck
4. The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
5. Loving What Is ~ Byron Katie
6. Anatomy of the Spirit ~ Caroline Myss
7. A Return to Love  ~ Marianne Williamson
8. The Power of Less ~ Leo Babauta
9. High: A Party Girl’s Guide to Peace ~ Tara Bliss
10. Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions ~ Russell Brand
11. The Four Agreements ~ Don Miguel Ruiz & Janey Mills
12. The Book of Joy ~ Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
13. Ayurveda - The Science of Self-Healing ~ Dr V Lad
14. Self-Compassion ~ Kristin Neff
15. Radical Acceptance ~ Tara Brach
16. Mindfulness for Beginners ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
17. Cancer Proof ~ Dr Heather Paulson
18. Yoga for Diabetes ~ Rachel Zinman
19. Deep Nutrition ~ Catherine Shanahan
20. The Obesity Code ~ Dr Jason Fung
21. Fast Food Nation ~ Eric Schlosser
22. The Sleep Book ~ Dr Guy Meadows
23. The Sleep Revolution ~ Arianna Huffington
24. When Things Fall Apart ~ Pema Chödrön
25. The Art of Living ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
26. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying ~ Marie Kondo
27. Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns ~ Gitta Jacob
28. Pussy: A Reclamation ~ Regena Thomashauer
29. Love Your Lady Landscape ~ Lisa Lister
30. Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure ~ Paul Martin
31. Body Respect ~ Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor
32. Thrive ~ Arianna Huffington
33. Mindset ~ Benjamin Smith
34. ACT with Love ~ Russ Harris
35. Feeding Success ~ Emmanuelle Galland
36. Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook ~ Donna McBride
37. A Realist’s Guide To Sugar Free ~ Sherri Nicholds
38. Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking ~ Allen Carr
39. Hunger ~ Roxane Gay
40. Fat is a Feminist Issue ~ Susie Orbach
41. The Beauty Myth ~ Naomi Wolf
42. The Good Girl’s Guide to Owning Your Sexy ~ Laura Boyd
43. The Feminine Mystique ~ Betty Friedan
44. Vagina ~ Naomi Wolf
45. Code Red ~ Lisa Lister
46. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living ~ Dale Carnegie
47. Explain Pain ~ Dr David Butler & Prof G Lorimer Moseley
48. Yoga Anatomy ~ Leslie Kaminoff
49. The Art of Happiness ~ Dalai Lama
50. The Happiness Project ~ Gretchen Rubin

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