This is called "self-help" genre. It's designed to make you feel positive, may be less depressed. These books communicates to you emotionally via anecdots. But

This is called "self-help" genre. It's designed to make you feel positive, may be less depressed. These books communicates to you emotionally via anecdots. But their effects wears off and you are not really going any where. Throught my years, I have moved from fiction books to popular science (also "non-fiction"). Nowadays I like to read textbooks and research papers. Once you get used to that level of information density, it's hard to go back.