Happiness books & resources
updated 2/2/08
Link to New releases in happiness at Amazon.com
Books published in 2008
Books published in 2007
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
The Happiness Trip (Sciencewriters)
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky (New York: Penguin Press, 2007)
In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind by John F. Schumaker (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007)
earlier books
by Ronald Dworkin (Carroll & Graf, 2006)
by Bjørn Grinde (Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, 2002)
by Daniel Nettle (Oxford, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005)
by Jonathan Haidt (Basic Books, 2006)
by Bernard M S van Praag; Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004)
by Daniel Gilbert (New York : Vintage Books, 2007, 2005)Blog: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Web resources: Probaway Happiness Chart “Happiness is a belief that a hoped-for state of affairs is coming into existence.”
What a great resource — you’ve put together a list of terrific sources about happiness. Thanks so much for including my blog, The Happiness Project! For what it’s worth, my favorite happiness round-up book is The Happiness Hypothesis by J. Haidt (on your list, too).