Books by Alain De Botton

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2010)
"In the place of easy answers, De Botton offers an array of potent and portable insights about the d...

The Architecture of Happiness (2006)
A study of architecture examines how we both shape and are shaped by our private homes and public ed...

On Love (1993)
In this dazzlingly original first novel, Alain de Botton tells of a young man smitten by a woman on ...

How Proust Can Change Your Life (1998)
Presents a study of Marcel Proust that combines elements of literary biography, textual analysis, an...

The Consolations of Philosophy (2001)
The author attempts to make philosophy useful by using the great philosophers to heal a variety of p...