Happier with Gretchen Rubin
More Happier: Reading Hacks, Book Recommendations, and Finding Your Perfect Summer Read

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We revisit a favorite Try This at Home tip for getting more reading done, share listener hacks for building a happier reading life, and discuss how to discover books you’ll love. Plus: recommendations for fascinating books about how things work.
Revisited Highlights:
- Try This at Home: Read More (episode 121)
- Happiness Hacks:
- Try a new book club (episode 465)
- Keep a shelf of the books you’ve read (episode 328)
- Read the novels your children read (episode 186)
- Improve your reading light (episode 296)
- Listener Question: How to Find Good Books to Read (episode 428)
- Listener Recommendations: Books on How Things Work (episode 481)
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Tips for Reading More from “Better Than Before”
- Gretchen’s Favorite Children’s and Young-Adult Books
- The New York Times Book Review Podcast
Connect with Us:
- Email: podcast@gretchenrubin.com
- Website: gretchenrubin.com
- Instagram: @gretchenrubin | @lizcraft
- Take Gretchen’s free Four Tendencies quiz → gretchenrubin.com/quiz
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