Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!
My Bookshelf
21
items Over two years ago, i decided to start reading, mostly for the purpose of self-improvement and entertainment. It has been an amazing journey, really, and im excited to share what has been keeping me busy so far. So here's some books that actually hel...
Sections
3
Self-help books
African authors who deserve your shelf
Romance
Self-help books
Manifestation? Quantum leaping?? This book is very practical. I love how Joe guides you throughout the manifestation process. You will only put this book down to rest when you finish reading it. And, you will never be the same after reading this book...
Joe Dispenza | Becoming Supernatural
Great book!! It is a transformative guide that reveals how the obstacles in your life are reflections of your own self-sabotage, teaching you to overcome them by mastering your emotions, healing from within, and becoming your highest self. If you on ...
The Mountain Is You By Brianna Wiest
If you a scatter brain, with a 101 things to do, but "very little time" that end up doing nothing, this book is for you!!
In this great book, Robin Sharma taught me that rising at 5 a.m (early/dawn) and following a structured morning routine centered...
The 5 AM Club: Own your morning, Elevate your life by Robin Sharma - N
This book!! Quick read, but very deep.
Believe it or not...and yes, this may sound cliche but true fulfillment lies within....
“The Alchemist” book is a tale about a shepherd who follows his dreams in search of treasure, only to discover that true f...
The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
If you into self help books like me, you have most likely read Atomic Habits. But knowing and doing are two different things — and that's exactly why James Clear made this workbook. It takes every concept from the 25-million-copy bestseller and turns...
The Atomic Habits Workbook: Official Companion to the #1 ...
This is the book behind the SKIMS Empire. Emma Grede dropped out of school in East London and went on to co-found a $5 billion brand with Kim Kardashian. Now she's written the book on exactly how she thinks. Start With Yourself is raw, honest, and pa...
Start With Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life - Barnes & Noble
This book made so much noise 2025/26, GOSH.
9 million copies. One idea. Two words - LET THEM. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins has broken every record in non-fiction publishing and once you hear the concept, you'll understand why. Stop wasting ener...
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People ...
So this is the original atomic habits book....THEEE SELF HELP BOOK OF THE DECADE. Still gping viral for good reasons.
Published in 2018. Still my #1 in self-help book in 2026. Still all over BookTok. Still being recommended by every high-performer y...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break ...
This book explained, step by step, how powerful a machine the mind is when it comes to BEING and manifesting your desired life 😍
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
African authors who deserve your shelf
“...What if the thing holding you back was the very thing around your neck?...”
The Thing Around Your Neck is a powerful collection of twelve short stories that capture love, loss, migration, and identity with striking honesty. From Nigeria to the...
The Thing Around Your Neck - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Once you start reading this book, you won't want to put it down.
It’s funny, scandalous, and brutally honest about marriage, power, and the hidden lives of women in a polygamous home. Every chapter peels back another secret until you realize no one ...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - by Lola Shoneyin (Paperback)
This is a Zambian Story the World Needs to Read.
Shipikisha' is a Zambian word that means 'to relentlessly endure.' It's also what every woman in this book is expected to do. The Shipikisha Club is set in Kabwe, Zambia — a courtroom drama and an inti...
The Shipikisha Club by Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Hardcover
This is The Darkest, Funniest Thriller You'll Read This Year!!!!
It's wickedly funny, unbearably tense, and over in one sitting (the chapters are practically bite-sized). If you haven't read it yet, you're genuinely missing out. If you have, her long...
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite - Barnes & Noble
Ten years. That's how long we waited for a new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel. Dream Count was worth every minute. Four Nigerian women. Four lives. One pandemic. And the quiet devastation of the choices they didn't make. If you loved Americanah or Ha...
Dream Count: A Novel (B&N Exclusive Edition) - Barnes & Noble
Ifemelu leaves Nigeria for America and discovers something she never expected: for the first time in her life, she is Black. Not in Nigeria — but in America. That realisation is the heart of Americanah — a love story, a social critique, and one of th...
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paperback
This is the book that won the Women's Prize for Fiction — and then, years later, was voted the best of ALL Women's Prize winners ever. Half of a Yellow Sun is set during the Biafran War in Nigeria: love, revolution, survival, and loss, told through f...
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paperback
This is the essay that Beyoncé sampled. That Dior printed on a T-shirt and sent down a Paris runway. That has been given to teenage girls, put on school curriculums, and pressed into the hands of everyone who has ever struggled to explain why feminis...
We Should All Be Feminists|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
Bolu Babalola is a British-Nigerian author who writes romance like nobody else, witty, warm, deeply cultural, and utterly swoony. If you want a love story that actually reflects your world and makes you laugh out loud while making you fall apart, thi...
Honey and Spice: A Novel by Bolu Babalola, Paperback
I read this slowly, one story at a time, because I didn't want it to end. Bolu Babalola writes romance like she genuinely believes in it and somehow that belief transfers to you by the last page. A beautiful book to own physically. The kind you keep ...
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
Romance
2.7 million copies. One week. That's what happened when Onyx Storm dropped in January 2025 and if you've been on BookTok for more than five minutes, you already know why. Dragon riders, forbidden romance, epic battles, and the kind of cliffhanger tha...
Onyx Storm (Wing and Claw Collection) - Barnes & Noble
Emily Henry has this way of making you feel like she wrote the book specifically about something you've been quietly carrying. I don't want to say too much because half the magic is not knowing where it's going. What I will say is: clear your weekend...
Great Big Beautiful Life