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

2004.
    Thoreau, Henry David. Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2004.
    A FEW HELPFUL BOOKS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
    Demaris, Ann, and Valerie White. First Impressions: What You Don’t Know About How Others See You. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
    Faber, Adele, and Elaine Mazlish. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. New York: Avon Books, 1980.
    Fisher, Helen. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
    Gottman, John. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work . London: Orion, 2004.
    Sutton, Robert I. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. New York: Warner Business, 2007.
    SOME OF MY FAVORITE MEMOIRS OF CATASTROPHE
    Beck, Martha. Expecting Adam. New York: Penguin, 2000.
    Broyard, Anatole. Intoxicated by My Illness. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1992.
    Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. New York: Knopf, 2005.
    Mack, Stan. Janet and Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
    O’Kelly, Gene. Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
    Shulman, Alix Kates. To Love What Is. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2008.
    Weingarten, Violet. Intimations of Mortality. New York: Knopf, 1978.
    SOME OF MY FAVORITE NOVELS ABOUT HAPPINESS
    Colwin, Laurie. Happy All the Time . New York: HarperPerennial, 1978.
    Frayn, Michael. A Landing on the Sun. New York: Viking, 1991.
    Grunwald, Lisa. Whatever Makes You Happy. New York: Random House, 2005.
    Hornby, Nick. How to Be Good. New York: Riverhead Trade, 2002.
    McEwan, Ian. Saturday . New York: Doubleday, 2005.
    Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
    Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead . New York: Farrar, Straus, 2004.
    Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety. New York: Random House, 1987.
    Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by A. Maude. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1939.
    ———. “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Translated by T. C. B. Cook. London: Wordsworth Editions, 2004.
    ———. Resurrection . New York: Oxford World Classics, 1994.
    ———. War and Peace. Translated by Rosemary Edmonds. New York: Penguin, 1957.
    Von Arnim, Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Her German Garden . Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1901.
    THE BOOKS THAT MOST INFLUENCED MY OWN HAPPINESS PROJECT
    Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964.
    Thérèse of Lisieux. Story of a Soul, 3rd ed. John Clarke, O.C.D. Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1996.
    Everything written by Samuel Johnson.

About the Author
    GRETCHEN RUBIN is the author of several books, including the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK . Rubin began her career in law, and she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.
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