
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. Her previous books include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, as well as the bestselling books Better Than Before, Happier at Home, The Four Tendencies, and Outer Order, Inner Calm. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World. She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness projects. She has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy! Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family.
How to Complete Your Dream Project
2026
Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives
2025
How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
2023
Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
2019
The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better
2017
Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More
2016
A Day-by-Day Journal
2015
Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
2015
Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
2012
2011
2011
Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
2009
2005
A Brief Account of a Long Life
2003
A User's Guide
2000