Best Books About Communication [Top 10] [Update 2024]

What are good books on communication? Here you will find the top 10 best communication books. Read on for the recommendations.

The top 10 best books about communication

1.Nonviolent Communication (A Language of Life)

An extraordinary book for those who suffer from anger and violent tendencies. If you consistently feel regret and have unresvolved animosity, this book can transform you. The language of life is love and this book promotes that from start to finish.

2.How to Win Friends & Influence People

For those experiencing difficulties throughout everyday life, this is a must-have guide. This book is all about making a positive impact on the people around you and making connections in the process. Positivity promotes positivity and we loved this book!

3.Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

The creators give you pragmatic strategies to improve your conversational abilities when it really counts. It can be nerve-wracking to talk to people when the stakes and pressure are high and every second counts. Fortunately, this guide will walk you through the process step by step.

4.Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Our pick for anyone who need to negotiate in their day-to-day life or anyone who struggles with negotiations. If you are consistently coming up second best and falling short of expectations, this book can teach you how to win the debate more often than not. A great professional tool!

5.4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work–Anywhere!: Including the “12-Day Communication Challenge!”

In our opinion, this is the best book for any struggling relationship. If you are unable to communicate effectvely in a relationship, things are unlikely to work out. Fortunately, if you and your partner sit down and complete this 12-day challenge, things will become far clearer.

6.Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator’s Guide to Social Emotional Learning

This book is a significant commitment to the field of social and passionate learning and a great tool for any teachers out there. If you are looking to learn about the subject of social emotional learning, this is the perfect beginner’s and expert’s guide. A fantastic resource!

7.Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors

This book will help you both in your professional and personal life. Reading people is a skill that can allow you to make informed decisions ahead of time. This can improve your relationships and behaviour both in the home and workplace. If you want to analyze and predict people, this is the guide for you.

8.I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships

Making subtle changes to your day to day interactions can have a positive effect on your relationships. This is a three-hour conversational audio guide that seeks to teach you the skills behind forming incredible relationships. A must-read for those looking to improve their conversational skills.

9.Till Death Don’t Us Part: A True Story of Awakening to Love After Life

Our recommendation for anyone struggling with grief and loss. Love never dies and just because someone passes away does not mean you cannot communicate with them in order to move on. This is the incredible, resilient and heart-breaking story of Karen Frances and the tragedy she survived.

10.Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love

A book that really redefines the modern-day relationship. It uses science to determine what can improve your relationship, explained by expert psychiatrists and neuroscientists. Understanding human attachment can allow us to find and keep love and this book explains exactly how.

What kind of communication books are on this list?

In the books above, you will find books about communicating in a relationship, in class, at work or just in general with other people. For books on communication in  marketing, you can best go here.

Our recommended books teach the following about communication:

• How you can negotiate strongly in a strategic way
• Essential communication techniques
• Good body language
• How to conduct conversations with charisma and self-confidence
• How to prevent or resolve conflict situations
• How to present powerfully
• How to apply that ‘mirroring’ correctly and subtly
• How to meet correctly
• How to boost your social network
• Tricks to achieve your goal in a conversation

The top 10 best books on Communication of all time

Let’s finish with giving you our top picks on this subject. We will present you our top 10 best books about Communication of all time. We have updated this ultimate list of our recommendations this year, including all the recent titles.

BOOKS	AUTHOR
Nonviolent Communication (A Language of Life)	Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD
How to Win Friends & Influence People	Dale Carnegie
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition	Kerry Patterson
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It	Chris Voss
4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work–Anywhere!: Including the “12-Day Communication Challenge!”	Bento C. Leal III
Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator’s Guide to Social Emotional Learning	Lorea Martinez
Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors	Patrick King
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships	Michael S. Sorensen
Till Death Don’t Us Part: A True Story of Awakening to Love After Life	Karen Frances McCarthy
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love	Amir Levine Rachel Heller

To your success!