The Best Book About Relationships From 2019

Forge’s pick for the year’s best read on relationships

Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Photo courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2019 perfectly encapsulated the disorienting, occasionally dystopian decade it capped off. Amid economic uncertainty, political upheaval, and the looming shadow of climate catastrophe, we searched for answers. We grasped for mentors. And we read books — many, many books. Within the flux of chaos, these books showed us new approaches for our work, our relationships, our minds, and our moods.

Every day this week, we’ll offer you one of our favorite personal development books of the year, as well as a runner-up in each category.

Forge’s favorite book about relationships from 2019:

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

“Insight is the booby prize of therapy,” writes Lori Gottlieb in her new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. “It’s great if you have it, but if you don’t take that insight and produce change, it’s worthless.”