16 Books every woman should read for happiness & empowerment

Author Lalah Delia wrote Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power as an invitation to consciously engage with the things that feed our soul and raise our vibration while letting go of the things that lower our vibration.

Ready to step out of your shell and live life more boldly? Author Arianna Davis is here to help you channel your inner Frida Kahlo and start living the life you were made for rather than the life anyone else expects for you, just like Frida herself insisted on doing.

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Not much of a reader? That's OK. Try journaling for self-improvement instead. With The Five-Minute Journal, you'll fill in structured entries and prompts each day, with the goal of increasing your gratitude, happiness, and optimism.

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis is a New York Times bestseller for a reason. While some may brush it off as just a "trendy" thing to read, there's actually a lot of meat to this book. It's all about erasing self-doubt in order to live a more joyful and productive life, and it includes practical tips on doing so.

Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes is a quick read that has life-changing powers. It's a cross between a memoir and a self-help book, and chronicles the year the TV bigwig spent trying new things whenever they were presented to her. It changed her life and subsequently the perspectives and attitudes of millions of readers.

Slow down so you can start getting more done. That's the message of Erin Falconer's How to Get S–t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything. As women our responsibilities never seem to end. We are overworked, over-tasked, over-burdened, and overwhelmed and as it turns out, there may be a way to actually feel productive by doing less.

Yes I am, and so are you. The only way to find true happiness is find it within yourself rather than looking outward and author Christine Gutierrez is here to help you do it. I Am Diosa offers up stories of trauma, tragedy, and pain alongside mantras, guided meditations, and journal prompts to help readers heal from their own hurts and rise up stronger than ever.

Because when you know better, you do better and when you do better, you are better. Admitting to implicit biases and generational racism is a major hurdle, but the job doesn't end up there. We should all be striving to be actively antiracist and to be raising antiracist children. Author Ibram X. Kendi plants the seeds of antiracist ideas and offers up methods of uprooting racism for his readers in How to Be an Antiracist.

You've probably seen the cover of this book on social media somewhere. It is yet a another massive hit for author Glennon Doyle, and it is absolutely a must-read. Glennon just has a way with words that makes people feel their own worth deeply, by recounting her own experiences. Untamed is an incredibly authentic, deep-dive memoir where she encourages every woman to prioritize her own well-being and to always be true to herself.

Regardless of politics, it's impossible as a woman not to read Michelle Obama's Becoming and relate to her experience. Whether it's her upbringing, her career path, her relationship with her husband, or her life as a working mother, her memoir proves that she is every one of us, and has served to inspire women around the globe to rise up, work hard and do the right thing.

Atomic Habits by James Clear is the ideal read for anyone looking to shed old habits and build positive new ones. It offers practical information about habit formation along with useful and easy-to-implement tips on creating life-enhancing habits that can lead to a more successful and fulfilled life.

Nope, you really do not need that gold star. The acceptance and validation of others isn't the end-all and be-all of life. Journalist Alicia Menendez thinks it's time for women to put a stop to all that, and start focusing more on how our individual talents and abilities can help us lead fuller, more accomplished lives.

Sensing a theme here? Inward by Yung Pueblo is actually a poetry book, but it focuses entirely on self-love, self-reflection, and letting go of things that are doing us harm, all of which the author believes will lead us to a better relationship with and understanding of our true selves.

Inspired by her TEDx talk of the same name, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book We Should All Be Feminists is a quick read intended to motivate readers toward a more inclusive brand of feminism, particularly when it comes to women of color, and how impactful and life-altering embracing this new feminism can be.

Toss aside those colonial ideas on witchcraft, and let author Gabriela Herstik help you understand how the ways of our ancestors can help us all rediscover our spiritual selves through the use of various tools including astrology, crystals, and tarot, in her easy-to-read book Inner Magic.

You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero is a humor-laced volume written to help encourage people to believe in themselves, use their own unique personality traits to their benefit, and ultimately create a life worth truly living, using some easy exercises and practical tips to rise to the next level.