Dealing with Difficult People

I searched Amazon for books on difficult people, and the collection seemed endless (you don't need any Amazon account to search and look at the books). Recently I estimated that Amazon sells at least 1100 different nonfiction books on the subject, listed on 47 pages.

On April 22, 2025, The New York Times published a list of six difficult-people books recommended by "therapists, psychologists and other workplace experts": Some People Are Just Difficult. Here’s How to Handle Them. The Times has a paywall, but the six books are:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, updated 2022 edition
• Why Won't You Apologize? by Harriet Lerner
• The Asshole Survival Guide by Robert I. Sutton
• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
• Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
• The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

I will check them to look for practices we can use on this site.