A self-help book is one written to advise its readers on how to solve personal problems. The books are named after Samuel Smiles’ 1859 best-seller “Self-Help”. But, they are also recognised and categorised as “self-improvement,” a modernised form of self-help. In the late twentieth century, self-help books changed from a niche market to a postmodern book category.
Informal instructions for everyday behaviour have been around almost as long as writing itself. “Some social observers have concluded that the Bible is possibly the first and most significant self-help book,” writes Micki McGee.
“The Great Gatsby” is one of the truly great American classic novels written by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. In April 1925, the “Charles Scribner’s Sons” company published the book. In 2020, Almost 30 million copies of the book had sold and it had been translated over 42 different languages. Although the book is popular … Read more
Steve Jobs is one of my most inspiring tech entrepreneurs and there is no wonder that I love his biography book. Around 2009, Steve Jobs requested Walter Isaacson to write a book about his life. Walter Isaacson is a former executive at CNN and the author who wrote the best-selling biographies like Benjamin Franklin and … Read more
“To kill a Mockingbird” is a classic American novel written by the author Harper Lee. In 1960, the company J.B. Lippincott & Co. published the book. Since then it became popular and now, It is widely used as a textbook in some middle schools and high schools in America. In 1961, the book won the … Read more