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http://www.amazon.com/Unworthy-How-Stop-Hating-Yourself-ebook/dp/B00FX7R1NY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid= The kindle version is 11$, which is what I have.

Its approach is more autobiographical, like a memoir of someone's realizations with examples and advice about tackling specific issues. What I found helpful about the writing is that it shies away from the very common "Love yourself!" mantra that many self help books push. Instead, it's even simpler, start by learning how to not hate yourself. Self love and self acceptance can follow if we stop digging ourselves into holes with our learned coping mechanisms. The entire tone of the book is partially comedic and partially pragmatic. It's also helped me frame a lot of my (now detrimental) behaviours in a light that helps me understand why I developed them, why they "worked" (in abusive situations), and why they are keeping me back, now, from the type of life that I actually want.

One book I am reading at the moment (I usually juggle a handful at a time) is "Sand" by Hugh Howey. It's an interesting take on a post-apocalyptic future. I'm enjoying it so far.

>The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next.

Followed you over here from RBN.

Some of the best novels about narcissism IMO don't ever mention the actual word itself. Instead, they're about the ins and outs of emotional manipulation. These immediately come to mind:

• Damage, by Josephine Hart
  
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
  
• The Magus, by John Fowles
  
  They're all fairly intense books about the depths of self absorption and manipulative rationalization.
  

Stop Walking on Eggshells has some useful tactics in dealing with difficult people.

https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Keane-Lies-Behind-Eyes-ebook/dp/B00H6V07L8?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect