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Guide · Anxiety & Stress

The books experts recommend most for anxiety & stress

The books most recommended for anxiety & stress across 109 podcast episodes — ranked by how many experts and episodes vouched for each, every one linked to what was actually said. Sourced opinion, not medical advice.

The list

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Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

recommended in 13 eps · 3 experts
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Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

recommended in 13 eps · 2 experts
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Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

recommended in 12 eps · 1 expert
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

recommended in 12 eps · 4 experts
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Awareness

Anthony de Mello

recommended in 11 eps · 1 expert
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The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

recommended in 9 eps · 2 experts
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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

recommended in 8 eps · 3 experts
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How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

recommended in 6 eps · 3 experts
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Exhalation

Ted Chiang

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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Deep Work

Cal Newport

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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Tao Te Ching

Laozi

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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The Overstory

Richard Powers

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Mastery

Robert Greene

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Dune

Frank Herbert

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

Richard Feynman

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Essentialism

Greg McKeown

recommended in 3 eps · 2 experts