The Gratitude Diaries

Janice Kaplan spent a year practicing deliberate gratitude and wrote about it with the warm, readable directness of a seasoned journalist — the Christian Science Monitor's comparison to 'talking to a good friend who's having a great day' is exactly right. It's not a faith-based book, but its secular gratitude research is compatible with most traditions, and the New York Times bestseller status reflects genuine broad appeal. Readers wanting something theologically grounded will need to look elsewhere, but as an accessible, research-supported entry point to gratitude practice, it delivers.