The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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    Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. The Complete Essays of Montaigne . Translated by Donald Frame. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1958.
    Plutarch. Selected Lives and Essays. Translated by Louise Ropes Loomis. New York: Walter J. Black, 1951.
    Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness . New York: Liveright, 1930.
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    Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Washington, D.C.: Gateway Editions, 2000.
    SOME INTERESTING BOOKS ON THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF HAPPINESS
    Argyle, Michael. The Psychology of Happiness, 2nd ed. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2001.
    Cowen, Tyler. Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. New York: Dutton, 2007.
    Diener, Ed, and Robert Biswas-Diener. Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008.
    Easterbrook, Gregg. The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. New York: Random House, 2003.
    Eid, Michael, and Randy J. Larsen, eds. The Science of Subjective Well-Being. New York: Guilford Press, 2008.
    Frey, Bruno, and Alois Stutzer. Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
    Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Knopf, 2006.
    Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown, 2005.
    Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
    Lyubomirsky, Sonja. The How of Happiness. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
    Nettle, Daniel. Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
    ———. Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
    Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. New York: Riverhead, 2005.
    Schwartz, Barry. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. New York: HarperPerennial, 2004.
    Seligman, Martin. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. New York: Free Press, 2002.
    ———. Learned Optimism . New York: Knopf, 1991.
    ———. The Optimistic Child: How Learned Optimism Protects Children from Depression. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
    ———. What You Can Change and What You Can’t: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement. New York: Knopf, 1993.
    Thich Nhat Hanh. The Miracle of Mindfulness. Translated by Mobi Ho. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
    Wilson, Timothy. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
    EXAMPLES OF OTHER PEOPLE’S HAPPINESS PROJECTS
    Botton, Alain de. How Proust Can Change Your Life. New York: Vintage International, 1997.
    Frankl, Victor E. Man’s Search for Meaning . Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
    Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. New York: Penguin, 2007.
    Jacobs, A. J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
    Jung, C. G. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. New York, Vintage Books, 1963.
    Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Villard, 1996.
    Kreamer, Anne. Going Gray: What I Learned About Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters. New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
    Lamott, Anne. Operating Instructions . New York: Random House, 1997.
    ———. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.
    Maugham, W. Somerset. The Summing Up. New York: Doubleday, 1938.
    O’Halloran, Maura. Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind. New York: Riverhead, 1994.
    Shapiro, Susan. Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex. New York: Delacorte Press,