The Best Self-Help Books of 2025, According to Oprah Daily

If you’re trying to step into a better version of yourself with the new year, Oprah Daily has rounded up 12 self-help books that could help you with everything from relationships to career and finances. The list comes in especially clutch if you prefer your self-help to be more science and less woo woo (no shade), since the books listed below craft their advice with the latest sociological research and neuroscience.

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck

How to Be Enough by Ellen Hendriksen

Open When by Julie Smith

The Next Conversation by Jefferson Fisher

Secrets of Adulthood by Gretchen Rubin

Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working by Dan Heath

CRUSH Your Money Goals by Bernadette Joy

Shift by Ethan Kross

Who Better Than You? by Will Packer

The Power Pause by Neha Ruch

It Begins with You by Jillian Turecki

To read more about the list, including book synopses, visit Oprah Daily.

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