Lisa Rinna's Favorite Books List Is Full Of Classic Self-Help Tomes

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Lisa Rinna believes in the power of positive thinking. That is, according to her bookshelf, since the former "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star counts a few new age classics among her favorite reads. Three of her favorite titles – "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale, "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck, and "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne – deal, to varying degrees, with the philosophy that you can change your life by shifting your thoughts.

Rinna credits books like "The Power of Positive Thinking," which she first read during a period of major life instability, with helping her to find her feet as a public figure and an actor. This was before Rinna's head-turning beauty transformation, when she was still an impressionable 20-something and trying to find herself. "All these books I'm drawn to [because] I am big on self-reflection," Rinna explained when she appeared on Bustle's "One Nightstand" podcast in 2026 [timestamp 11:52]. "I think it's the most important tool that we have."

In 2026, Lisa Rinna sat with "Syndicate X Library" for an installment of "Books That Changed My Life," where she walked through "The Power of Positive Thinking" to share how the book shaped her. In talking about it, she got the opportunity to explain why this genre of self-help book holds such an enduring appeal for her. "In my childhood, I was taught cause and effect, that's how you gotta live, cause and effect," she explained. "So I was drawn to this faith-based idea of life" [timestamp 37:24]. There's no doubt Rinna could serve up some tips to practice positive self talk.

Similarly, she first read "The Road Less Traveled" as she was uprooting her life in San Francisco to move to Los Angeles, and it helped her chart a course through her unconventional life. In a way, it gave her a roadmap toward the radical authenticity that has made Rinna such an enduring figure on reality television, and a charming memoirist in her 2026 book, "You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It." This is, after all, the same Rinna whose wild outfits pair perfectly with her over-the-top personality. "['The Road Less Traveled'] changed my life. It opened that whole door up in my brain," Rinna explained during her appearance on Bustle's "One Nightstand" podcast. "I think life is about changing your sense of reality at all times, so that book probably has served me very well" [timestamp 03:12].