Prescription for Joy: 25 Books That Are Scientifically Proven to Make You Happier

Here’s a refined SEO-optimized table listing 25 books that are excellent candidates for “prescriptions for joy.” Each entry includes title, author, publisher, year of publication and ISBN where available. At the beginning of this article you’ll also find links to related reading lists:

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#	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Year	ISBN
1	The How of Happiness	Sonja Lyubomirsky	Penguin Press	2008	9780143114956
2	The Happiness Advantage	Shawn Achor	Crown / Random House	2010	9780307591548
3	Blue Mind	Wallace J. Nichols	Little, Brown & Company	2014	9780316252089
4	The Happiness Hypothesis	Jonathan Haidt	Basic Books	2006	9780465028023
5	Factfulness	Hans Rosling	Flatiron Books	2018	9781250107817
6	The Art of Happiness	Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler	Riverhead Books	1998	9781573221115
7	Forest Bathing	Qing Li	Little, Brown & Company	2018	9780316531924
8	Happier	Tal Ben-Shahar	McGraw-Hill	2007	9780071549241
9	The Nature Fix	Florence Williams	W. W. Norton & Company	2017	9780393346686
10	The Gratitude Project	Greater Good Science Center & Robert Emmons	Da Capo Lifelong Books	2010	9780738216331
11	10% Happier	Dan Harris	Dey Street Books	2014	9780062265432
12	The Kindness Cure	Tara Cousineau	Rockridge Press	2021	9781648766815
13	Resilient	Rick Hanson & Forrest Hanson	Harmony	2021	9780593236766
14	The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	Prentice-Hall	1952	9780743234801
15	Ikigai	Héctor García & Francesc Miralles	Penguin Books	2017	9780143130727
16	The Untethered Soul	Michael A. Singer	New Harbinger Publications	2007	9781572245372
17	Emotional Agility	Susan David	Penguin Random House	2016	9781592409495
18	Mindset	Carol S. Dweck	Ballantine Books	2006	9780345472328
19	Atomic Habits	James Clear	Avery	2018	9780735211292
20	The Book of Joy	Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu	Avery	2016	9780399185045
21	Mindfulness in Plain English	Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Wisdom Publications	1994	9780861719066
22	Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	Harper & Row	1990	9780061339202
23	The Happiness Trap	Russ Harris	Trumpeter	2008	9781590305842
24	Self-Compassion	Kristin Neff	HarperCollins	2011	9780061733524
25	Happier at Home	Gretchen Rubin	Crown	2012	9780307886273