BooksCuratedOpening the catalogue
Every psychology & relationships title we currently recommend — each one human-reviewed.
Amir Levine
Explains the science of adult attachment styles -- anxious, avoidant, secure -- and how understanding your own can help you choose and sustain healthier relationships.
Henry Cloud
A practical framework, grounded in Christian counseling tradition, for learning to say no and take responsibility for your own life without guilt.
Melody Beattie
A foundational recovery guide for recognizing and breaking patterns of codependency in relationships, especially with addiction involved.
Kerry Patterson
Tools for staying calm, honest, and constructive in high-stakes conversations where opinions differ and emotions run strong.
Brené Brown
Argues that vulnerability, often seen as weakness, is actually the source of real courage, creativity, and connection.
Douglas Stone
A framework from Harvard's Negotiation Project for approaching the conversations most people instinctively avoid, from feedback to conflict.
Daniel Goleman
The book that popularized the idea that emotional intelligence -- self-awareness, empathy, self-regulation -- predicts life success as much as or more than IQ.
David D. Burns
A widely used, clinically grounded introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for treating depression and negative thought patterns.
Eric Berne
The foundational text of transactional analysis, cataloguing the unconscious social 'games' people play to get their emotional needs met.
Sue Johnson
A couples therapist's guide to the small number of emotional conversations that repair disconnection and rebuild secure attachment in a relationship.
Dale Carnegie
The enduring classic on building rapport, remembering what matters to people, and handling disagreement without making enemies.
Robert Cialdini
A social psychologist's classic breakdown of the core principles -- reciprocity, scarcity, authority, and more -- that make people say yes.
Viktor Frankl
A psychiatrist's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps, and the theory of finding meaning through suffering that grew out of the experience.
Marshall Rosenberg
A structured method for expressing feelings and needs honestly, and hearing others', without triggering defensiveness or conflict.
Dan Ariely
A behavioral economist's research into the surprising, systematic ways people make irrational decisions -- and how those patterns can be predicted.
Susan Cain
Makes the case that introverts have real, underappreciated strengths in a culture and workplace built to reward extroversion.
Daniel Goleman
Explores the neuroscience of how our relationships and interactions physically shape the brain, moment to moment.
Gary Chapman
Proposes that people give and receive love in five distinct ways, and that relationship friction often comes from partners speaking different love languages.
Alain de Botton
A philosophical novel following one couple through the decades after the honeymoon phase, examining what sustained love actually requires.
Don Miguel Ruiz
A short set of personal commitments -- be impeccable with your word, don't take things personally, and others -- drawn from Toltec wisdom.
Brené Brown
A short guide to letting go of who you think you're supposed to be, and building the self-compassion needed to live wholeheartedly.
John Gottman
Distills decades of the author's marriage research into concrete, observable habits that reliably predict whether a relationship will last.
Esther Perel
A nuanced, non-judgmental look at infidelity -- why it happens and what it can reveal about a relationship -- from a therapist who works with couples.
Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel laureate's landmark synthesis of decades of research into the two systems -- fast, intuitive, and slow, deliberate -- that drive human judgment and decision-making.