Jack Canfield Books in Order

Women who have faced breast cancer and their loved ones share accounts of fear, support, and renewed strength. The collection offers companionship through personal experiences of diagnosis and survival, emphasizing the relationships that helped them endure.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen examine how fear can limit personal growth and ambition. Through anecdotes and practical exercises, they encourage readers to confront those barriers, focus their energy, and pursue the lives they want.

This collection gathers stories about everyday kindness, hope, and the possibilities of the human spirit. Personal experiences offer encouragement to readers seeking greater purpose, stronger connections, and a more generous way of approaching the world.

A second collection of personal stories explores love, perseverance, parenting, and the pursuit of dreams. The contributors' experiences invite readers to reconsider familiar challenges and find encouragement in the ways other people have navigated their lives.

Real couples share how they found love, built intimacy, and faced obstacles together. Chapters on commitment and understanding offer perspectives for readers beginning relationships, working through difficulties, or appreciating meaningful moments in an established partnership.

Canfield and Hansen argue that asking for what you want is a skill that can be learned. They explore fear, rejection, and confidence, offering guidance on whom to ask and how to make requests more effectively.

These personal stories explore compassion, forgiveness, courage, generosity, and faith through the experiences of others. The third collection offers encouragement for readers facing setbacks or loss, alongside examples of people pursuing their hopes with determination.

Designed for reading in brief spare moments, this compact collection offers new personal stories selected by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Barry Spilchuk. Its short accounts provide encouragement without requiring the time of a longer volume.

Cancer survivors share more than one hundred personal accounts of confronting illness with hope, faith, and determination. Their experiences offer emotional support to people facing cancer and to loved ones trying to understand what they are going through.

This collection brings together stories from people who have survived cancer and found renewed meaning in their lives. Their accounts of fear, perseverance, humor, and hope offer readers facing illness a sense of connection with others.

Stories about marriage, motherhood, aging, self-esteem, and connections across generations explore women's experiences. Contributions from figures including Oprah Winfrey and Erma Bombeck sit alongside accounts offering comfort and encouragement through life's changing roles and challenges.

This pocket-sized gift collection gathers the editors' favorite stories from the first three Chicken Soup volumes. It offers a compact introduction for new readers and a way for longtime readers to revisit accounts that brought them comfort.

The fourth collection explores love, parenting, learning, loss, and overcoming obstacles through personal stories. Accounts of honesty, caring, and changing perspectives offer readers encouragement as they consider their own relationships and responses to difficult situations.

Personal stories explore putting Christian values into practice at home, at work, and in the community. The collection centers on love and hope, offering encouragement to readers trying to sustain their faith through painful or challenging circumstances.

This collection shares stories of Christian women whose faith and family commitments shape their lives. Accounts of spiritual openness and unexpected miracles offer encouragement to readers reflecting on the place of God in their everyday experiences.

Stories for and about mothers recall the care, comfort, and encouragement that shape family life. Contributions from Barbara Bush, Reba McEntire, Erma Bombeck, and others celebrate the relationships readers remember from childhood and experience as parents.

Teenagers share stories about friendship, love, setbacks, and growing up. Their experiences offer companionship to readers facing similar problems, showing how other young people have navigated the emotional ups and downs of adolescence and found encouragement.

Teenagers share experiences of failed classes, breakups, peer pressure, and helping friends in trouble. Their accounts address difficult high school challenges, giving readers a way to recognize shared struggles and consider how others have faced them.

The fifth collection draws together personal stories covering a broad range of emotions and life experiences. Its varied accounts invite readers to reflect on human connections and find comfort in brief encounters with other people's lives.

Stories drawn from America's heartland and country music world explore traditions of family and faith. The collection connects the Grand Ole Opry and everyday experience through accounts of the values and relationships that give people strength.

Written for children ages eight to twelve, this collection offers stories of courage, hope, and humor. The accounts provide a starting point for discussing difficult experiences and decisions, helping young readers recognize that others share their concerns.

People describe the animals that changed their lives, from everyday companions to unexpected helpers. These stories explore how relationships with pets can offer comfort, reveal kindness, and deepen the connections people feel with the world around them.

Stories from different kinds of work explore courage, compassion, and creativity in daily responsibilities. From serving customers to building businesses, the accounts show how relationships and personal choices can give ordinary work a deeper meaning.

This second teen collection explores friendship, love, respect, loss, and the transition toward adulthood. Personal stories offer companionship through difficult experiences, helping readers recognize their own feelings in the struggles and discoveries of other young people.

This journal gives teenagers space to record their own life stories alongside the Chicken Soup series' encouragement. It also leaves room for friends and parents to contribute messages of love and inspiration, creating a personal keepsake.

The sixth collection explores love, parenting, learning, death, and overcoming obstacles through personal accounts. Contributions from Erma Bombeck, Dolly Parton, Jay Leno, and others offer varied perspectives on finding wisdom and encouragement in everyday life.

Personal stories recall Christmas through childhood wonder, acts of kindness, and the love people share as adults. Accounts of unexpected generosity and holiday encounters explore how small gestures can bring meaning to the season.

This collection celebrates the lasting bonds people form with cats, dogs, and other pets they regard as family. Personal stories explore the affection and companionship animals bring into human lives, offering recognition for readers who share those connections.

Stories trace the college experience from applications and moving in to homesickness, friendships, demanding coursework, and graduation. The collection offers humor and encouragement for students navigating newfound independence and the uncertainties of entering adult life.

Accounts centered on people aged sixty and over explore the insight and affection that later life can bring. Contributions from Erma Bombeck, Roy Rogers, and others offer perspectives for readers of different ages on remaining young at heart.

Professional golfers, caddies, and amateurs share memorable moments on the course and lessons learned through the game. Stories explore sportsmanship, family, setbacks, and improvement, connecting the pleasures and frustrations of golf with experiences beyond the links.

Written for prisoners and their families, these personal stories explore hope, healing, forgiveness, and change. The collection offers encouragement to people seeking to move beyond destructive thinking and behavior while maintaining connections with a wider community.

Personal stories celebrate the pleasures and difficulties of living single, whether by choice or circumstance. The collection offers companionship and encouragement to readers reflecting on their relationships and building a meaningful life outside marriage.

Letters sent by teenagers in response to the earlier books reveal their experiences of life, love, and learning. The collection brings together humorous and painful reflections, showing readers the feelings and challenges they share with their peers.

Personal stories focus on people meeting difficult challenges and moving forward despite overwhelming odds. Ranging from humorous everyday experiences to acts of courage, the accounts offer encouragement to readers facing obstacles or trying to pursue their dreams.

Novelists, journalists, poets, freelancers, and screenwriters share the frustrations and rewards of writing. Their accounts explore perseverance, finding a voice, and seeking mentors, offering companionship to beginners and experienced writers who struggle with a solitary profession.

Written by and for preteens, these stories explore making friends, fitting in, and preserving a sense of identity. The collection addresses the emotional changes of ages nine to thirteen, offering support during the transition toward adolescence.

Stories about forgiveness, faith, charity, hope, and love explore Christian values in family and community life. The collection encourages readers to reflect on how spiritual beliefs can inform their everyday actions at home and at work.

Women who have already experienced pregnancy share personal stories for readers preparing to become mothers. The collection addresses the excitement and uncertainty of that transition, offering companionship and reassurance through accounts of other women's journeys.

A second collection of stories honors the many roles mothers play as caregivers, teachers, motivators, and friends. The accounts reflect on the rewards and difficulties of raising children, recognizing the lasting influence of a mother's love.

Parents share the pleasures and difficulties of raising children, from everyday lessons to loss and letting go. Stories from adoptive, foster, single, and two-parent families offer reassurance to readers facing their own doubts and challenges.

Stories from across the sporting world explore experiences ranging from major-league competition to children's games. Accounts involving hockey, skating, horse racing, and other pursuits examine the positive changes sport can bring to people's lives.

The third teen collection explores love, friendship, family, kindness, and difficult experiences through personal stories. Accounts from peers and caring adults offer support as readers navigate daily pressures, grow up, and consider how they can make a difference.

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt present strategies for focusing on strengths, changing unhelpful habits and balancing work with family. Practical exercises address personal, business and financial goals for readers struggling to direct their time and effort.

Stories from America's baseball fields explore sportsmanship, victory and the meaning of the game to its fans. This collection connects the excitement of competition with personal memories and lessons that reach beyond the diamond into everyday life.

This collection explores the pleasures and difficulties of fatherhood through personal stories for new dads, single fathers, grandfathers and fathers-to-be. Its accounts offer recognition and encouragement to men facing the responsibilities and changes that raising children brings.

Personal stories explore the satisfaction of growing a garden, the renewal found in working with soil and the moments shared with family and friends. The collection connects everyday gardening experiences with reflection, affection and a sense of hope.

People who have lost relatives or close friends share their experiences of grief in this collection. Their personal accounts offer companionship and reflection for readers facing bereavement, showing how others live with sorrow and search for comfort.

This collection draws on the Jewish tradition of storytelling to explore the joys, sorrows and challenges of Jewish life. Its varied accounts connect personal experience with shared heritage, offering readers reflections on identity, affection and enduring human concerns.

Nurses recall patients who changed them, difficult stretches in their careers, and moments of humor and connection. Their experiences offer encouragement and practical insights for caring for patients and supporting families through vulnerable times in their lives.

Christmas stories bring together humor, joy and the feelings associated with the holiday season. This treasury offers short accounts for readers seeking moments of reflection and warmth, capturing the personal experiences that give Christmas its meaning.

These 101 personal stories describe people finding something positive in difficult circumstances. Their experiences offer examples of responding to setbacks with resourcefulness and changed perspectives, giving readers encouragement as they consider how to handle their own problems.

Teen contributors share experiences of poor self-image, family conflict, grief, peer pressure and school violence. Their accounts address painful situations directly, offering recognition and companionship to young readers who may feel isolated by the challenges they face.

Veterans from different branches of military service share experiences spanning World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War. Stories of combat, homecoming, compassion and healing explore the personal costs of service for veterans and their families.

Stories by and for volunteers explore the difference individuals can make in schools, churches and their communities. The collection reflects on courage, compassion and freely given help, recognizing the people who devote their time to supporting others.

Personal stories explore expressions of romance, from familiar gestures to the moments that carry special meaning for individual couples. This collection invites readers to reflect on love and the different ways people show affection in their relationships.

This collection explores sisterhood through stories about the bond between sisters and the ways their relationships change. Personal accounts offer readers a chance to reflect on the affection and shared experience that can connect sisters throughout their lives.

Stories about ordinary Americans focus on people whose actions make a difference in the lives of others. The collection looks beyond famous names to everyday examples of service and kindness, offering reflections on community and shared national life.

Stories explore the lasting influence teachers can have on students' confidence, ambitions and enjoyment of learning. This collection recognizes educators who make lessons meaningful and help young people imagine possibilities, offering encouragement through accounts of their impact.

Real teens share stories about friendship and love, including trust, support, conflict and the pain of changing relationships. Their experiences offer recognition to readers navigating the confusing moments that can accompany the people they care about most.

Travelers share experiences of journeys ranging from backpacking through Europe to American road trips and Caribbean cruises. This collection explores encounters with unfamiliar people and places, showing how travel can bring adventure, reflection and unexpected lessons.

Stories about friendship, love, forgiveness, courage and dating explore Christian faith in teenagers' lives. Written for young people with strong beliefs as well as questions and doubts, the collection considers how faith connects with everyday experiences.

Stories of horse rescue, rehabilitation, dedication and loss explore the bonds between horses and the people who care for them. The collection reflects on responsibility, commitment and affection, including the difficult experiences that accompany loving an animal.

NASCAR figures, including Jeff Gordon and Bobby Labonte, share stories of courage, dedication and overcoming setbacks. Their accounts explore racing's demands and the importance of support, connecting experiences on the track with challenges faced beyond the sport.

Stories and artwork by Wyland explore people's attraction to the ocean, from moments of reflection to encounters with marine life. This collection connects experiences by the sea with the feelings and memories that make its landscapes meaningful.

Marking the series' tenth anniversary, this volume gathers fifty earlier stories alongside letters from readers describing their influence. A section by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen adds principles and practical approaches for pursuing personal dreams.

Stories explore women's varied experiences of work, from corporate roles and factory jobs to entrepreneurship and raising children at home. The collection reflects on aspirations, achievements and the demands of combining professional responsibilities with family life.

Residents, visitors, surfers, chefs and other contributors share experiences of Hawaii and its spirit of aloha. This collection looks beyond the islands' scenery to the people, memories and personal connections that make the place meaningful to them.

Personal stories explore the joys, challenges and achievements of African American life. This collection brings individual voices together to celebrate shared culture while offering readers accounts of the experiences that shape identity, pride and connections with others.

Wedding stories range from lavish celebrations to simple ceremonies, mixing meaningful moments with mishaps and humor. Accounts of family bonds, friendships and commitment offer perspective to brides facing the pressures of planning and preparing for married life.

Stories about women's friendships explore old companions, new connections, shared laughter and support during difficult moments. The collection reflects on the meaning of friendship and the ways women help one another through experiences both ordinary and memorable.

Outdoor adventures and quieter moments of reflection fill this collection for hikers, climbers, campers, kayakers and other nature lovers. Its stories explore the beauty of landscapes and the personal connections formed while spending time beyond familiar indoor routines.

Stories of recovery explore rebuilding relationships, restoring self-esteem and recognizing personal resilience. This collection offers encouragement through accounts of positive change, inviting readers facing difficult transitions to consider the strength and support that may help them move forward.

Real teenagers share experiences involving love, friends, family, school, sport and faith. This fourth collection explores the changing relationships and difficult moments of growing up, offering young readers recognition as they make their way toward adulthood.

Stories about midlife explore women finding renewed enjoyment, meaning and freedom in their lives. This collection offers personal perspectives on a changing stage of life, inviting readers to reflect on the possibilities that come with experience.

This guide addresses women's everyday concerns about time, money and competing priorities through seven ingredients for a balanced life. Its advice offers ways to consider personal needs alongside responsibilities, helping readers examine how they organize their lives.

Mostly written by children, this second preteen collection explores challenges, ambitions and ways to make a difference. Accounts of helping others, starting businesses and using individual abilities offer young readers examples of turning ideas into action.

Mothers and grandmothers share the worries, laughter, tears and lessons that come with raising children. These 101 stories explore motherhood's changing challenges and rewards, offering readers encouragement through experiences from women at different stages of family life.

Personal stories explore the bond between cats and the people who love them, mixing funny everyday encounters with accounts of courage, healing and learning. The collection invites readers to reflect on the companionship their own cats provide.

Dog lovers share humorous experiences of life with their pets alongside stories of courage, healing and learning. This collection explores canine companionship and the bond between people and dogs, offering accounts that range from playful to reflective.

Entrepreneurs from businesses large and small share short accounts of success, failure and the courage needed to keep going. With practical advice woven through their experiences, this collection offers encouragement to readers considering or pursuing ventures of their own.

Stories follow the changing relationship between fathers and daughters through childhood, adolescence, leaving home and later years of caregiving. The collection explores affection, separation and shifts in perspective, inviting readers to reflect on their own family bonds.

Girls share personal stories about growing up, changing bodies, first relationships and the move from elementary to middle school. Their experiences offer recognition and support to preteen readers navigating unfamiliar social situations and the pressures of increasing independence.

Girls share personal stories about growing up, changing bodies, first relationships and the move from elementary to middle school. Their experiences offer recognition and support to preteen readers navigating unfamiliar social situations and the pressures of increasing independence.

This collection brings together stories about becoming and being a grandmother, celebrating the bond with grandchildren. Humor and personal experiences offer recognition for longtime grandmothers and those anticipating the role, with reflections on the love it involves.

This collection honors military wives through stories about their commitments to marriage and service. Written for readers connected to military life, it offers recognition of the responsibilities and emotional demands involved in supporting both family and country.

A year of brief stories gives women a daily opportunity to pause and reflect. The 365 entries combine personal experiences with affirmations, quotations, and space for readers to record their own thoughts as the year unfolds.

Seven Christmas virtues are explored through short essays and personal stories, followed by ideas for seasonal traditions. The collection invites families to reflect on the values behind celebrations and find ways to express them through shared activities.

Teenagers share experiences of friendship, including loyalty, betrayal, distance, and support during crises. Stories are combined with quizzes, advice, and other features to help readers reflect on their relationships and the kind of friend they want to be.

Real teenagers describe the embarrassing, difficult, and rewarding moments of school life, from friendships and cliques to activities and decisions. Advice, quizzes, and facts accompany the stories, offering perspective on experiences that can feel overwhelming.

This second collection brings together new accounts of Christian faith in everyday life. Stories about forgiveness, charity, love, and hope offer readers across denominations companionship as they reflect on their own beliefs and experiences of healing.

Real people share humorous and encouraging experiences of dieting, focusing on the emotional difficulties as well as healthier changes. The collection offers companionship for readers facing frustration and setbacks while trying to change their eating habits.

Horse lovers recount experiences of rescue, rehabilitation, loss, achievement, and daily commitment to their animals. The stories explore the responsibilities and emotional bonds of horse ownership, showing how caring for horses can shape the lives of people.

Written for children ages six to ten, this collection uses true stories to explore honesty, kindness, responsibility, forgiveness, and acceptance. Cartoon strips accompany accounts that can be read independently or shared aloud to discuss everyday choices.

Stories celebrate the relationship between mothers and sons from its beginnings through life's changing stages. Accounts of joy, difficulties, hopes, and disappointments explore the bond they share and the ways that love survives everyday challenges.

Mothers describe the everyday disorder and unexpected discoveries of raising preschoolers. Their stories explore sibling conflicts, finding purpose amid exhausting routines, and the mixed feelings that arrive when a young child begins school and gains independence.

Scrapbookers share how preserving photographs and memories has strengthened friendships, connected families, and helped others. Their stories explore a creative hobby that can become a passion, a way of recording history, or even a source of work.

American Idol contestants, fans, and people behind the show share experiences beyond the television cameras. Their stories explore pursuing a dream, overcoming setbacks, and the emotional connections formed when audiences follow performers hoping for a breakthrough.

This collection explores the pleasure people take in chocolate, from everyday treats to moments associated with particular sweets. Stories celebrate a shared enthusiasm for its many forms, inviting chocolate lovers to reflect on their own memories of indulgence.

Stories, facts, and anecdotes explore coffee's history, culture, and varieties, including its journey from growing bean to finished cup. The collection offers coffee drinkers a closer look at the beverage and the experiences surrounding it.