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Anxiety

Last updated: January 03, 2025

Here are books to help understand and live with anxiety. Life requires a level of anxiety to function well, but what to do if anxiety gets in the way of what we want to achieve in life and how much enjoyment we get out of life.

We have interviewed psychoanalysts, authors, academics and more to bring you curated reading lists to learn about anxiety and how to cope with it.

    The best books on Anxiety, recommended by Lucy Foulkes

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    The best books on Anxiety - Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers

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    Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
    by Susan Jeffers

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    The best books on Anxiety - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

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    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
    by Dale Carnegie

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    The best books on Anxiety - Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries by Cathy Creswell & Lucy Willetts

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    Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries
    by Cathy Creswell & Lucy Willetts

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    The best books on Anxiety - Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress And Restoring Wellbeing by Danny Penman & Vidyamala Burch

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    Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress And Restoring Wellbeing
    by Danny Penman & Vidyamala Burch

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    The best books on Anxiety - Jog On: How Running Saved My Life by Bella Mackie

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    Jog On: How Running Saved My Life
    by Bella Mackie

  • Feeling anxiety is a natural part of being a human being, but for some people it can cause terrible mental and physical anguish and prevents them from leading happy and fulfilling lives. Lucy Foulkes, a psychologist at University College London, talks us through books that can help with anxiety.

  • The best books on Anxiety - Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers
  • The best books on Anxiety - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
  • The best books on Anxiety - Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries by Cathy Creswell & Lucy Willetts
  • The best books on Anxiety - Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress And Restoring Wellbeing by Danny Penman & Vidyamala Burch
  • The best books on Anxiety - Jog On: How Running Saved My Life by Bella Mackie

The best books on Anxiety, recommended by Lucy Foulkes

Feeling anxiety is a natural part of being a human being, but for some people it can cause terrible mental and physical anguish and prevents them from leading happy and fulfilling lives. Lucy Foulkes, a psychologist at University College London, talks us through books that can help with anxiety.

The best books on Anxiety, recommended by Lucy Foulkes

    The best books on Burnout, recommended by Josh Cohen

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    The best books on Burnout - The Weariness of the Self by Alain Ehrenberg

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    The Weariness of the Self
    by Alain Ehrenberg

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    The best books on Burnout - Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End by Saito Tamaki

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    Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End
    by Saito Tamaki

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    The best books on Burnout - Exhaustion: A History by Anna K Schaffner

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    Exhaustion: A History
    by Anna K Schaffner

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    The best books on Burnout - Non-Stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood

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    Non-Stop Inertia
    by Ivor Southwood

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    The best books on Burnout - Against Nature (À rebours) by J K Huysmans

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    Against Nature (À rebours)
    by J K Huysmans

  • Overwhelmed, exhausted, yet unable to relax when you have the chance? You are not alone. Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst and author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop, discusses the symptoms and causes of burnout—and why relentless activity is at the source.

  • The best books on Burnout - The Weariness of the Self by Alain Ehrenberg
  • The best books on Burnout - Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End by Saito Tamaki
  • The best books on Burnout - Exhaustion: A History by Anna K Schaffner
  • The best books on Burnout - Non-Stop Inertia by Ivor Southwood
  • The best books on Burnout - Against Nature (À rebours) by J K Huysmans

The best books on Burnout, recommended by Josh Cohen

Overwhelmed, exhausted, yet unable to relax when you have the chance? You are not alone. Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst and author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop, discusses the symptoms and causes of burnout—and why relentless activity is at the source.

The best books on Burnout, recommended by Josh Cohen

    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities, recommended by Robert Kelsey

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    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

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    Emotional Intelligence
    by Daniel Goleman

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    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - They F*** You Up by Oliver James

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    They F*** You Up
    by Oliver James

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    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor Frankl

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    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
    by Stephen Covey

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    The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

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    Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
    by Richard Carlson

  • Most self-help books promise to take you from 0 to 100, but many people reading them are starting at minus 100. The author of What's Stopping You? picks books that helped him come to grips with his own insecurities.

  • The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  • The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - They F*** You Up by Oliver James
  • The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  • The best books on Overcoming Insecurities - Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

The best books on Overcoming Insecurities, recommended by Robert Kelsey

Most self-help books promise to take you from 0 to 100, but many people reading them are starting at minus 100. The author of What’s Stopping You? picks books that helped him come to grips with his own insecurities.

The best books on Overcoming Insecurities, recommended by Robert Kelsey

    The best books on Worry, recommended by Steven Amsterdam

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    The best books on Worry - Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys

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    Wolf Solent
    by John Cowper Powys

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    The best books on Worry - Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

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    Beware of Pity
    by Stefan Zweig

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    The best books on Worry - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    The best books on Worry - The White Album by Joan Didion

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    The White Album
    by Joan Didion

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    The best books on Worry - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

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    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

  • The author tells us about books that have anxiety at their heart, ranging from obsessional love and chronic neurosis to conspiracy theory paranoia and existential angst

  • The best books on Worry - Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
  • The best books on Worry - Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
  • The best books on Worry - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The best books on Worry - The White Album by Joan Didion
  • The best books on Worry - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The best books on Worry, recommended by Steven Amsterdam

The author tells us about books that have anxiety at their heart, ranging from obsessional love and chronic neurosis to conspiracy theory paranoia and existential angst

The best books on Worry, recommended by Steven Amsterdam

    The best books on Misery in the Modern World, recommended by Renata Salecl

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    The best books on Misery in the Modern World - The New Black by Darian Leader

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    The New Black
    by Darian Leader

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    The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Bodies by Susie Orbach

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    Bodies
    by Susie Orbach

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    The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Breath by Tim Winton

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    Breath
    by Tim Winton

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    The best books on Misery in the Modern World - The Humbling by Philip Roth

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    The Humbling
    by Philip Roth

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    The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Cockroach by Rawi Hage

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    Cockroach
    by Rawi Hage

  • The Slovenian philosophy professor decries the tyranny of choice and says we now expect long life, a beautiful body, sexual and job satisfaction. But the idea that we can perfect ourselves dooms us to failure and misery

  • The best books on Misery in the Modern World - The New Black by Darian Leader
  • The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Bodies by Susie Orbach
  • The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Breath by Tim Winton
  • The best books on Misery in the Modern World - The Humbling by Philip Roth
  • The best books on Misery in the Modern World - Cockroach by Rawi Hage

The best books on Misery in the Modern World, recommended by Renata Salecl

The Slovenian philosophy professor decries the tyranny of choice and says we now expect long life, a beautiful body, sexual and job satisfaction. But the idea that we can perfect ourselves dooms us to failure and misery

The best books on Misery in the Modern World, recommended by Renata Salecl

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