Books

The NLP canon, annotated — what each book actually covers and who it serves.

• Frogs into PrincesRichard Bandler & John Grinder, 1979 — edited transcripts of live seminars showing the founders demonstrating …
• The Structure of Magic, Vol. IRichard Bandler & John Grinder, 1975 — the founding text: Perls' and Satir's therapeutic language modelled thr…
• Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Vol. IBandler & Grinder, 1975 — the modelling study of Milton Erickson's hypnotic language from which the Milton Mod…
• Using Your Brain for a ChangeRichard Bandler (ed. Steve Andreas), 1985 — the accessible introduction to submodality work, drawn from semina…
• Get the Life You WantRichard Bandler, 2008 — step-by-step self-application of the classic change techniques, the most practice-orga…
• Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing PeopleJoseph O'Connor & John Seymour, 1990 — the clearest neutral survey of NLP's models and techniques; the standar…
• The NLP WorkbookJoseph O'Connor, 2001 — a practical workbook organising NLP's models into structured exercises with review que…
• Heart of the MindSteve & Connirae Andreas, 1989 — NLP methods presented through client-session narratives; the most humane door…
• Sleight of Mouth: The Magic of Conversational Belief ChangeRobert Dilts, 1999 — the definitive codification of the 14 reframing patterns for working with beliefs in conv…
• Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well-BeingRobert Dilts, Tim Hallbom & Suzi Smith, 1990 — belief-change methodology developed through health-related case…
• Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal GeniusRobert Dilts with Judith DeLozier, 1990 — advanced seminar transcripts covering the "prerequisites of genius":…
• The Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP and New CodingRobert Dilts & Judith DeLozier, 2000 — the comprehensive reference work of NLP concepts, patterns and applicat…
• Words That Change MindsShelle Rose Charvet, 1995 — meta programs turned into a practical influencing toolkit (the LAB Profile) for bu…
• Whispering in the WindJohn Grinder & Carmen Bostic St Clair, 2001 — the co-founder's own critical audit of NLP: what was achieved, w…
• My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. EricksonSidney Rosen (ed.), 1982 — Erickson's teaching tales collected and annotated; the primary well of therapeutic-…
• Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. EricksonJay Haley, 1973 — the classic study of Erickson's strategic, directive approach; the book that helped make Eri…
• The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian PowerJoel Kramer & Diana Alstad, 1993 — an analysis of authority, guru dynamics and ideological control; adjacent t…
• The Sourcebook of MagicL. Michael Hall & Barbara Belnap (later editions with Duval), 1997 — a categorical catalogue of NLP patterns: …
• Mind Lines: Lines for Changing MindsL. Michael Hall & Bobby Bodenhamer, 1997 — reframing patterns systematised as "mind lines", extending Sleight …
• Reading Path: SubmodalitiesThe submodalities reading path: Using Your Brain for a Change, then Heart of the Mind, then the Change Persona…
• Time for a ChangeRichard Bandler, 1993 — timeline and submodality techniques in Bandler's inimitable seminar-transcript style.
• Persuasion EngineeringRichard Bandler & John LaValle, 1996 — NLP patterns aimed squarely at business persuasion and sales contexts.
• NLP at Work: The Difference That Makes a DifferenceSue Knight (with later editions associated with O'Connor's line of applied NLP publishing), and Joseph O'Conno…
• The Best NLP Books (by Goal)The annotated canon, sorted by what you want: start with Introducing NLP for orientation; Using Your Brain for…
• Core TransformationConnirae Andreas & Tamara Andreas, 1992 — a structured process that works with a limiting pattern by finding t…
• Therapeutic MetaphorsDavid Gordon, 1978 — the craft of building stories isomorphic to a client's situation, offering movement witho…
• The Structure of Magic, Vol. IIRichard Bandler & John Grinder, 1976 — the second volume extending the founding analysis into representation s…
• Modelling With NLPRobert Dilts, 1998 — the most complete published treatment of modelling, the methodology that gave NLP its nam…
• Changing Belief SystemsRobert Dilts, 1990 — the belief-change methodology core: how beliefs form, limit, and reorganise, with the re-…
• From Coach to AwakenerRobert Dilts, 2003 — coaching mapped across the logical levels: which coaching role serves which level of chan…
• The Roots of NLPL. Michael Hall, 1988 — an excavation of NLP's intellectual sources: Korzybski, Bateson, transformational gram…
• Training TrancesBill O'Hanlon-adjacent lineage note — John Overdurf & Julie Silverthorn, 1994 — training in Ericksonian-style,…
• Monsters and Magical SticksSteven Heller (with Suzanne Steele), 1987 — subtitled "There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?", an irreverent and …
• Time Line Therapy and the Basis of PersonalityTad James & Wyatt Woodsmall, 1988 — the founding text of the Time Line Therapy® methodology and its timeline-b…