10 Must-Read Books for Understanding and Managing Anxiety
10 Must-Read Books for Understanding and Managing Anxiety
Anxiety affects millions around the world—and finding the right tools to understand and cope with it is essential. This handpicked list includes therapy workbooks, neuroscience-based explanations, personal memoirs, and spiritual reflections.
Whether you're dealing with panic attacks, chronic worry, or simply want to understand how anxiety works, these books offer real help.
These aren't just theory—they're practical, relatable, and grounded in real science or lived experience.
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Featured Books
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
by Edmund Bourne
Published: 1990
A comprehensive workbook full of exercises to help overcome anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias.
Dare
by Barry McDonagh
Published: 2015
A bold and modern approach to end anxiety and stop panic attacks—fast.
Overcoming Anxiety: A Self-help Guide
by Helen Kennerley
Published: 2009
Step-by-step CBT techniques to manage anxiety and build long-term coping skills.
My Age of Anxiety
by Scott Stossel
Published: 2013
A memoir that blends personal struggle with the cultural and scientific history of anxiety.
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
by Sarah Wilson
Published: 2017
A soulful rethinking of anxiety, encouraging self-compassion and deep acceptance.
The Happiness Trap
by Russ Harris
Published: 2007
A guide to ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) to live well with painful thoughts and feelings.
Unwinding Anxiety
by Judson Brewer
Published: 2021
How anxiety habits are formed in the brain—and how to break them using mindfulness and neuroscience.
When Panic Attacks
by David Burns
Published: 2006
Proven CBT strategies to treat anxiety without drugs or lengthy therapy.
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
by Catherine Pittman
Published: 2015
Explores the two pathways of fear and how to calm each through CBT and neuroscience.
The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle
Published: 1997
A spiritual classic that teaches presence as the key to inner peace and freedom from anxiety.