Best Self-Help Books for Women: Confidence, Courage and Growth
Self-help and personal growth books written by and for women: on confidence, work, creativity and trusting yourself. Every book here is in the Tori catalog, and each line says why it fits.
Confidence and career
2014The Confidence CodeKatty Kay
Nonfiction · HopefulKatty Kay and Claire Shipman combine science and interviews to explain self-assurance.
2013Lean InSheryl Sandberg
Self-help · HopefulSheryl Sandberg's Lean In encourages women to assert themselves at work and at home.
2018Girl, Wash Your FaceRachel HollisSelf-help · HopefulRachel Hollis takes on the lies women tell themselves, one chapter at a time.
2013You Are a BadassJen SinceroSelf-help · LightJen Sincero's guide to stopping self-doubt and starting to live an awesome life.
Courage and creativity
2012Daring GreatlyBrené BrownSelf-help · HopefulBrené Brown on why vulnerability takes courage and how it changes work, love and parenting.
2015Big MagicElizabeth GilbertSelf-help · LightElizabeth Gilbert encourages readers to live a creative life without fear.
2020UntamedGlennon DoyleNonfiction · HopefulGlennon Doyle tells how she stopped living by other people's rules.
1992Women Who Run with the WolvesClarissa Pinkola EstésNonfiction · ThoughtfulClarissa Pinkola Estés reads old myths and fairy tales for the wild woman within.