The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read by Philippa Perry is a warm, insightful guide to building healthier and more fulfilling relationships. Perry, a renowned psychotherapist, offers practical advice on navigating common relational challenges, from communication breakdowns to emotional misunderstandings. With empathy and humor, she encourages readers to reflect on their behaviors, take responsibility for their actions, and cultivate deeper connections with the people they care about.

The book is filled with relatable anecdotes and actionable tips, making complex psychological concepts easy to grasp and apply in everyday life. Perry’s gentle but direct approach emphasizes the importance of listening, setting boundaries, and fostering emotional intelligence. Whether you’re looking to improve your relationship with a partner, family member, or friend, this book is a thoughtful and engaging read that provides valuable tools for creating more loving and harmonious relationships.

I had a fun time with this! At times it reminded me of a Pinterest board, circa era 2015 with quotable moments or Instagram captions turned into paragraphs. I definitely think that’s a personal opinion, though, because I did still enjoy it beyond that.

A huge thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the arc! Apologies for not getting the review in before publishing date :)

This is a terrific self help book. I do in fact think everyone would benefit from it. The book covers all different sorts of relationship issues.

I will say I think I would have preferred a physical copy vs. the ebook. It may have felt more defined start/stop. But that’s a personal preference more than anything.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

I’m really looking forward to implementing the lessons from this book in my life and my relationships. Very useful and easy to understand advice from an expert that doesn’t feel judgmental.

I very quickly realized this book is not for me. The author uses few if any citations, is diagnosing folks based on analogies and letters they wrote in, and speaks too generally to be helpful.

The Book You want Everyone You Love to Read really is the book you want everyone you love (or don’t) to read! Full of good advice and knowledge typical of Philippa Perry along with her warmth and wit.

The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read by Philippa Perry is an instant classic. This book is perfect for anyone who has a relationship with any human and as all humans function better in connection- it’s a must read for all. This book is not overwhelmingly long, it’s short and sweet and divided into four sections of skills you’d learn in therapy, but if you’re already in therapy, this book is a helpful reminder for the skills you’ve been working to master. I also really appreciated that this book did not spend a lot of time on diagnoses. You will not read this book and close it thinking about how you always knew you (or someone closest to you) had this or other mental health diagnosis. It was so refreshing to read a book without it directing my thoughts to these categories of diagnoses.

The four sections are how we love and find connection, how we disagree, how we change, and how do we find contentment. The way this book is laid out, each section very naturally flows into the next one and she uses case studies through out which I found helpful as it did help the reader to see how the topics discussed in the book are helpful in everyday life with every day people.

I really enjoyed this book. I’d like to thank Hachette Books and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.