Our reviews
100 health & wellness books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
Every review is tagged with how the book feels to read.
100 reviews
Christina Applegate
Readers drawn to celebrity memoirs that trade career gloss for psychological rawness — particularly those interested in Christina Applegate's life through the lens of childhood trauma, MS diagnosis, and the kind of candid self-examination rarely found in the genre.
Usborne
Teen and young-adult readers who want a funny, emotionally honest contemporary story about OCD told from inside the character's head, with female friendship and feminism at its core rather than a love plot.
Susanna Kaysen
Readers drawn to the intersection of mental health, gender, and 1960s social history who want a documentary-grounded memoir that interrogates the boundary between sanity and socially defined nonconformity.
America's Test Kitchen
Home cooks who want a single, comprehensive, technique-grounded reference for building a Mediterranean-style diet using everyday supermarket ingredients across a wide range of countries and courses.
Brené Brown
Readers who have experienced failure, heartbreak, or major life transitions and want a structured, story-driven framework — reckoning, rumbling, revolution — for processing struggle and moving forward, especially those already familiar with Brown's earlier work on vulnerability and shame.
Lysa TerKeurst
Women in the evangelical Christian tradition who have cycled through conventional diet advice and are looking for spiritual and motivational grounding — rather than another meal plan — to address their relationship with food.
Michael Nehls
Readers who feel conventional psychiatric and pharmaceutical frameworks have failed them or their loved ones, and who are genuinely curious whether a trace nutritional deficiency — rather than a new drug — could be a missing piece in the modern mental health crisis.
Robert H. Lustig
Readers who want to understand the structural and biological mechanisms driving the chronic disease epidemic — not just what to eat, but how the food environment was shaped, who benefits, and what the science shows beneath layers of industry-influenced messaging.
Anthea Hatfield
Nurses, anaesthetists, and surgeons who need a comprehensive, science-grounded reference specifically covering the immediate post-operative recovery period and post-anaesthesia care unit practice.
Eckhart Tolle
Readers already familiar with Tolle's presence-based philosophy from The Power of Now who want a contemplative companion text built for slow, non-linear, meditative engagement rather than cover-to-cover reading.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Adults living with OCD who want a structured, neuroscience-grounded self-directed program — particularly those who have found medication alone insufficient or who face barriers to formal clinical treatment.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Readers who feel stuck in people-pleasing or approval-seeking patterns and are open to a philosophical, argument-driven introduction to Adlerian psychology rather than a clinical or workbook-style approach.
Janet Bond Brill
General adult readers who are new to intermittent fasting and want a single, credentialed, science-grounded reference that explains multiple fasting methods alongside practical diet and exercise guidance — without requiring any background in nutrition or medicine.
Sharon Vanderlip D.V.M.
Guinea pig owners — whether first-timers choosing their first cavy or experienced breeders wanting a single vet-grounded reference — who need authoritative, wide-ranging guidance covering everything from housing and nutrition to medical conditions and emergency care.
Sandi Mann
Students approaching psychology for the first time — whether at pre-university level, in the early stages of an undergraduate degree, or through self-directed study — who want a single, curriculum-aligned volume covering the full breadth of the discipline in accessible, jargon-free English.
Patricia Bartlett
New hamster owners — especially parents equipping a child with their first pet — who want a single, trustworthy, breed-aware reference covering housing, feeding, healthcare, and behavior in an accessible, full-color format.
Mieshelle Nagelschneider
Committed cat owners — especially those managing multi-cat households or persistent behavioral issues (litter box avoidance, inter-cat aggression, spraying, scratching) that simpler resources haven't resolved — who want to understand the evolutionary and territorial roots of feline behavior, not just a quick fix.
Casey Means, Calley Means
Readers who feel let down by conventional medicine and want a single, evidence-referenced framework — plus a concrete four-week action plan — for understanding how metabolic health connects to chronic symptoms like fatigue, mood instability, hormonal disruption, and weight resistance.
Meredith Baird, Katerina Schneider
Skeptical general readers — especially families — who want a single, consolidated wellness reference grounded in science rather than fads, covering everyday concerns like sleep, hydration, skin, gut health, and nutrition in one accessible volume.
Sylvia Plath
Readers drawn to confessional literature, mid-century American fiction, or first-person psychological narratives who want a novel that functions simultaneously as a feminist critique of 1950s societal expectations and a raw.
Jonathan Rosen
Readers drawn to literary memoir that works simultaneously as cultural history — particularly those interested in mental illness, American meritocracy, the limits of friendship, and the policy failures of late twentieth-century deinstitutionalization.
Lysa TerKeurst
Christian women who feel emotionally exhausted by the perpetual restart cycle of conventional dieting and are looking for spiritually grounded motivation to make lasting lifestyle changes alongside a practical health plan they already follow.
Shaler Red
Readers who have experienced confusing or destabilizing relationship dynamics and want a clear, practical framework for recognizing manipulation tactics and rebuilding confidence in their own instincts.
Gary A. Gallerstein
Bird owners at any experience level — from first-time budgerigar buyers to seasoned aviculturists and veterinary professionals — who want a single, clinically authoritative reference covering everything from species selection and nutrition to home physicals and emergency medical care.
