Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived is a collection of 13 articles written specifically on the topic, published in 2003. This book is meant to be read by scholars or readers interested in more scholarly writing. Each chapter is written in a style of a journal article and is followed up with numerous references. The chapters deal with the relationship between flourishing and many aspects of life: relationships, work, leisure, volunteering, morality, creativity, genius, wisdom. Each chapter will introduce the reader to the terminology, frame the importance of the problem, review the extant literature, synthesize the material, and propose further direction for research.

Despite  its technical nature, the contents of this book are very accessible, and contain very useful suggestions or at least hints about achieving flourishing. A curious reader will have plenty of references to follow up on in any direction she chooses. A particularly useful chapter on relationships has a thorough discussion concerning factors that improve or worsen relationships and points out the limitations of current research.