National Wellness Month Booklist

Celebrate National Wellness Month during the entire month of August. It's time to prioritize your self-care, reduce stress, and create healthier habits to feel like your best self!

Updated July 14, 2026
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10-Minute Chair Yoga Exercises for Seniors: 40 Poses to Build Strength and Flexibility for Fall Prevention
Hattori, April
Stay active and strengthen your balance at every age with chair yoga for seniors! Keeping ourselves in motion becomes even more important as we age. This guide for seniors makes it easy to stay stronger for longer with safe and simple chair yoga! Step-by-step instructions and...
Blind spots : when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our health
Makary, Marty
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the...
The brain health kitchen : preventing Alzheimer's through food
Fenn, Annie
Ebook
A physician and chef identifies the top ten brain-smart ingredients and shows that eating to maintain brain health is easy, accessible, delicious, and necessary for everyone.   The foods we choose to eat--or not--sit at the core of the Alzheimer's epidemic. They are also the...
Carbivore : 130 Healthy Recipes to Stop Fearing Carbs and Embrace the Comfort Foods You Love
Lapine, Phoebe
Paper Book
Put Carbs Back on the Table Diet trends come and go, but over the last decade, no one food group has been vilified and misunderstood as much as carbs. A hundred years ago, our relatives got more than 50 percent of their nutrients from carbs, and yet the chronic conditions we...
Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight
Kessler, David A.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Overeating comes an illuminating understanding of body weight, including the promise--and peril --of the latest weight loss drugs. ...
Dopamine kids : a science-based plan to rewire your child's brain and take back your family in the age of screens and ultraprocessed foods
Doucleff, Michaeleen
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Parent comes a revolutionary five-step guide--packed with practical, science-backed strategies--that shows you how to raise confident, happy kids while breaking the cycle of overdependence on screens and ultraprocessed foods. ...
Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 Recipes and a 28-Day Meal Plan That Unlock the Food-Sleep Connection (a Cookbook)
St-Onge, Marie-Pierre
Paper Book
What you eat directly impacts how you sleep. Science-based and easy to understand, Eat Better, Sleep Better includes 75 recipes that incorporate sleep-supporting ingredients that work with the body's rhythms and hormones to unlock quality rest--and the health benefits that come with it.<...
Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer
Smith, Ian K.
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith, learn how to defy the effects of aging by implementing simple changes at every decade. Whether we like it or not, lots of things change as we age: our joints start to creak, our muscles weaken, and we lose coordination....
Facing suicide : understanding why people kill themselves and how we can stop them
Barrat, James
Paper Book
A deep dive into a national catastrophe that examines how and why suicide happens so that we can prevent it Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year--more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about...
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Means, Casey
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller with over a million copies sold! A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's,...
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Warm, insightful, and witty, the first book of advice from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson--aka the Bloggess Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author but battles self-doubt,...
It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
Gupta, Sanjay
Paper Book
Free yourself from chronic pain with the latest science-backed techniques and expert practical advice from America's neurosurgeon and bestselling author, Sanjay Gupta. Are you one of the fifty-two million people who experience chronic pain in day-to-day life? In It Doesn't...
The Minimum Method : The Least You Can Do to Be a Stronger, Healthier, Happier You
Thurman, Joey/ Cole, Will (FRW)
Audiobook
Movement for Every Body: An Inclusive Fitness Guide for Better Movement--Build Mind-Body Awareness, Overcome Exercise Barriers, and Improve Mob
Dernie, Marcia
Paper Book
With humor, empathy, and expertise, a Black, femme, disabled, and neurodivergent physical therapist retraces their journey through a weaponized fitness culture, sharing an alternative path to honor all bodies and needs. An inclusive, full-color guide to improving mobility, building...
The New American Heart Association Cookbook, Centennial Edition
American Heart Association
Paper Book
Here is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to improve cardiac health and lose weight, offering 800 recipes--100 all new, 150 refreshed--that cut saturated fat and cholesterol. The American Heart Association's cornerstone cookbook has sold more than three million...
The new menopause : navigating your path through hormonal change with purpose, power, and facts
Haver, Mary Claire (Medical doctor)
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Take charge of your health with this invaluable guide to everything a woman needs to know about menopause during her hormonal transition and beyond--by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet. A NEW YORK POST BEST...
The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yourself Again
Haver, Mary Claire
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of the #1 bestseller The New Menopause explains everything a woman needs to know to thrive during the often-misdiagnosed and medically ignored perimenopausal years "Don't tolerate shrugged shoulders from your doctor during your...
Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate Kids by Becoming the Parent You Wish You'd Had
Kappadakunnel, Bryana
Paper Book
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025 A fresh, no-nonsense parenting guide that shows you how to become a great parent (even if you didn't have one yourself). Many of us didn't have a perfect childhood. But it's never too late (or too early!) to...
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide (Revised)
Simkin, Penny
Paper Book
Feel informed and empowered with this thoroughly updated, full-color pregnancy guide, which recognizes that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity care. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the comprehensive guidance you need...
Science of swimming : transform your stroke, gain strength, revolutionize your training
Hawke, Brett
Paper Book
Learn the science needed to perfect your stroke, swim faster, and endure for longer. Science of Swimming dives deeper than any other book to examine the muscle groups and bodily systems involved in being an effective swimmer; how they interact with the hydrodynamics of...
Signals: The Hidden Power and Secret Language of Hormones
Hameed, Saira
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer * A New Scientist Best Popular Science Book of the Year "An utterly fascinating guide to who you are and how you work. Saira Hameed reveals the endocrine system, and places it at the center of self...
Strength training for seniors : exercises to rewind the aging process and increase your balance, stability, and stamina
Waehner, Paige
Ebook
Building and retaining physical strength is integral to living a fuller, longer life. Lifting weights can reduce the symptoms of everything from osteoarthritis and back pain to depression and diabetes. In Strength Training for Seniors, certified personal trainer Paige Waehner ...
Think again : the power of knowing what you don't know
Grant, Adam
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller "THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more--it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and...
Untangle your emotions : naming what you feel and knowing what to do about it
Allen, Jennie
Ebook
Weightless : a doctor's guide to GLP-1 medications, sustainable weight loss, and the health you deserve
Salas-Whalen, Rocio
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A board-certified physician shares her must-have guide to using GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound, to reverse obesity and take charge of your health, with established strategies for maximizing your results "This book is a...
What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters
Nestle, Marion
Paper Book
NOMINATED FOR A JAMES BEARD AWARD A thoroughly revised classic, What to Eat Now is a field guide to food shopping in America, and a treatise on how to eat well and deliciously. What to Eat Now is a clear-eyed, no-nonsense guide to the most important...
What's Eating Us : Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
Kazdin, Cole
Paper Book
"One of my parenting fears is passing on my messed-up 1980s food issues to my children. Reading about Cole's journey, and how she thinks about reframing and repairing those issues is both calming and helpful." --Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting...
When the forest breathes : renewal and resilience in the natural world
Simard, S.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of Finding the Mother Tree offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature's deep-rooted cycles of renewal. "A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world...

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