Get with the Program: Self-Help Books 2015–2016

In looking at self-help books for the coming season, PW noticed a few strong themes. First, publishers and authors are taking a no-b.s. approach—though many titles are far less polite about it—to the feel-good category. Other new books are written by Millennials for Millennials—who better to help the nation’s biggest generation learn to embrace imperfection? In addition, we’ve rounded up forthcoming titles from category heavy hitters—Marianne Williamson, Jack Canfield, and others—and the newest entires in the burgeoning intersection of self-help and decluttering.

Straight-talking self-help books show readers how to weather any emotional storm.

New titles encourage Millennials to embrace imperfection.

Some of the biggest names in the self-help genre have new titles slated for the coming months.

Here’s a new wave of books following in the wake of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.’