In the past decade there was an explosion of books on the subject of happiness. My purpose of reading these books came not from the desire to help myself be happier (I already was ridiculously so) but was to understand happiness as a psychological state. For this reason, this website will contain mostly books written by researchers who have performed studies in the field of positive psychology.

I think a single person’s experience is not as unlikely to apply to others as the findings of a researcher who carefully ran a clever experiment to isolate the factors that matter. For this reason there will be almost no traditional self-help books on this site; but despite this, the books I summarize and recommend will  usually contain valuable information for those interested in becoming happier.

Please look at additional resources which contain links to videos of talks and scholarly papers about happiness.