Self-help books are widely read and highly valued, mostly by women. They allow someone to access a lot of good information that can be personally helpful at little cost—unless we become ...

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Their insights will help you look with fresh eyes at your own partnership and get inspired to change it for the better. Read on for the books that will help strengthen your marriage.

Many of these marriage books, like other staples of the self-help genre, codify their wisdom into a simple program comprising seven (or nine, or 100) easily digestible (and often alliterative) rules.

Finally—I thought—a lead. If I were the problem, I reasoned, I could also be the solution. Self-help had never appealed to me; my preferred nonfiction genre was literary memoir.

Self-help, in all its ever-proliferating forms — books, seminars, video, audio and digital — is a multibillion-dollar industry. That much, at least, we know for sure. And most of us would ...

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