Brené Brown Books in Order

Building on her Dare to Lead work, Brown offers a playbook for leading with courage in uncertain times. She explores grounded confidence, paradox, and trust, giving leaders tools to hold hard conversations, prioritize wisely, and create humane, high‑performing cultures.

Organized around eighty‑seven emotions and experiences, this book maps the language of the heart. Brown explains what each feeling signals and how naming our inner world can deepen self‑understanding, strengthen relationships, and support meaningful connection.

In this classic self‑help book, Stephen R. Covey outlines seven habits that move readers from dependence to independence and then healthy interdependence, focusing on character, clear priorities, win‑win relationships, and continual growth in both personal and professional life.

Here Brown applies her research directly to organizations, defining daring leadership as taking responsibility for people and potential. She teaches four skill sets to help leaders lean into vulnerability, live their values, build trust, and learn to rise after failures.

Expanding on Rising Strong, this audio teaching explores the spiritual side of getting back up after a fall. Brown describes spirituality in broad, inclusive terms and shows how belonging, perspective, and meaning help us rise stronger from struggle.

This book tackles true belonging in a polarized world, arguing that real connection sometimes requires standing alone. Brown outlines practices for braving conflict and disconnection while staying grounded in integrity, empathy, and our own deeply held values.

Shauna Niequist shares essays about stepping off the treadmill of achievement and hustle. She describes choosing rest, presence, and honest relationships over busyness and people‑pleasing, inviting readers to trade perfectionism for a simpler, more soulful way of living.

This collection gathers personal letters from Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen, offering candid reflections on vocation, solitude, friendship, suffering, and prayer. His gentle, honest counsel gives readers an intimate look at a life shaped by compassion and spiritual searching.

Centered on the process of reckoning, rumbling, and revolution, this book maps out how to get back up after setbacks. Brown blends research and stories to show how owning our stories of struggle can lead to braver, more grounded lives.

Recorded from live teaching, this course weaves Brown’s core research on shame, courage, and wholeheartedness into one experience, showing how dropping our emotional armor and leaning into discomfort can open the door to joy, love, creativity, and real belonging.

Drawing on her guideposts for wholehearted families, Brown speaks to parents about raising children who know they are worthy of love and belonging, emphasizing vulnerability, play, gratitude, and connection over perfection, performance, and constant comparison.

In this audio program, Brown examines how shame operates differently for men and women, clarifies the distinction between guilt and shame, and walks listeners through four elements of shame resilience so they can engage the world from a place of worthiness.

Drawing on years of research, this book reframes vulnerability as courage rather than weakness, exploring how shame and scarcity hold us back and offering practical ways to dare greatly in love, parenting, work, and leadership.

Brown invites readers into wholehearted living by letting go of who we think we should be. Through ten guideposts she shows how courage, compassion, and connection grow when we release perfectionism, comparison, and numbing and embrace our imperfect selves.

Designed as a 12‑session group curriculum, this resource helps facilitators and participants understand shame as a universal experience and practice empathy, critical awareness, and reaching out so they can develop lasting shame resilience together.

An early exploration of women's shame, this book unpacks how perfectionism and social expectations fuel feelings of inadequacy, then introduces a shame‑resilience framework to help readers speak honestly, seek empathy, and reclaim connection and power.

Based on qualitative research with women, this early book examines how shame shows up around appearance, motherhood, work, faith, and more. Brown combines stories and strategies to help readers recognize shame and start building resilience and connection.