Works by
John Gray
(Writer)
[1951 - ]

Audio

• Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus (2007)
  CD

• The Mars and Venus Audio Collection (1995)
  Includes the mega-bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, as well as What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know and Mars and Venus in the Bedroom.

Books

• Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (2003) with Barbara State, Illustrator
  Truly Mars and Venus celebrates the wisdom of the number one international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus.
  
  With passages drawn from John Gray's groundbreaking classic on relationships, this beautiful book is illustrated with humorous cartoons and charming artwork by Barbara State.
  
  The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, Truly Mars and Venus delivers John Gray's rich and inspiring advice for creating and sustaining healthy and loving relationships.

• The Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution: Create the Brain Chemistry of Health, Happiness, and Lasting Romance (2003)
  John Gray taught men and women how to embrace their differences to build strong, loving relationships. This practical guide reveals how diet, exercise, and communication skills combine to affect the production of healthy brain chemicals. The Mars Venus Diet Exercise Solution addresses the unique needs of men and women. The program focuses on:

  • Relationship and communication issues that affect hormonal and brain chemistry balance

  • Nutritional supplementation for increasing physical, mental, and emotional well-being

  • Gender-specific diet, nutrition, and weight management

  • Essential physical exercises for stimulating the lymph system, endocrine system, cerebral spinal fluid, and the brain

  • Stress and mood management for a longer, healthier, and happier life.

  Tying into Dr. Gray's major national infomercial, The Mars Venus Diet Exercise Solution is guaranteed to be a huge sensation.

• How to Get What You Want at Work: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting Results (2002)
  In How to Get What You Want at Work, Gray analyzes the ways men and women misunderstand and misinterpret each other in the workplace, and he offers practical advice on reducing unnecessary conflict and frustration.
  
  How to Get What You Want at Work will:

  • Increase your performance by giving you the tools to improve communication, promote teamwork, and enhance working relationships.

  • Increase your productivity by providing a greater awareness and appreciation of the diverse characteristics within each of us -- and how these differences can positively or negatively affect productivity.

  • Increase your effectiveness by empowering you to overcome frustration and resolve conflict in difficult communication situations.

  • Increase your morale by utilizing interactive techniques that will promote respect and build trust.

  Applying his trademark practical advice to everyday office issues, John Gray will teach you how to achieve your goals and how to make the workplace a source of fulfillment.

• How to Live for Change and Change for Life: Practical Ways to Have the Life You Want (2001)

• Mars and Venus in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting Results at Work (2001)
  John Gray shows that by understanding the differences between men and women in the workplace, anyone can identify and respond to various business approaches in a manner that earns greater respect and promotes increased cooperation. By recognizing how men and women interpret behaviors and reactions differently, a person can make more informed choices of how to make the best impression.
  
  Mars and Venus in the Workplace analyzes the differences in the ways men and women communicate, solve problems, react to stress, earn respect, promote themselves, experience emotional support, minimize conflict, score points, view sex, and ask for what they want. By showing the many ways men and women misunderstand and misinterpret each other in the workplace, John Gray offers practical advice on reducing unnecessary conflict and frustration. Filled with his trademark communications charts and practical advice on everyday office issues, Mars and Venus In The Workplace will enable readers to achieve their goals and to make the workplace a source of fulfillment.

• Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus: Nine Principles for Lasting Love, Increasing Success, and Vibrant Health in the Twenty-first Century (2000)
  Awaken your power to create practical miracles so that you can adjust to life's challenges and respond with greater peace, joy, and love.
  
  John Gray provides nine guiding principles to live by:

  • Believe as if miracles are truly possible.

  • Live as if you are free to do what you want.

  • Learn as if you are a beginner.

  • Love as if for the first time.

  • Give as if you already have what you need.

  • Work as if money doesn't matter.

  • Relax as if everything will be okay.

  • Talk to God as if you are being heard.

  • Feast as if you can have whatever you want.

• Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children (1999)
  This brilliantly original and practical system for parenting children is the brainchild of John Gray, whose Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus books and seminars have helped millions of adults communicate more effectively and lovingly with each other. Based on this idea that children respond better to positive rather than negative reinforcement, the Children Are from Heaven program concentrates on rewarding, not punishing, children and fostering their innate desire to please their parents.
  
  Central to this approach are the five positive messages your children need to learn again and again:

  1. It's okay to be different.

  2. It's okay to make mistakes.

  3. It's okay to express negative emotions.

  4. It's okay to want more.

  5. It's okay to say no, but remember Mom and Dad are the bosses.

• Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One (1998)
  At the end of a relationship, it can sometimes feel like the end of the world. Devastation, loneliness, and bitterness are some emotions that exist due to a breakup, divorce, or the loss of a loved one. But with the help of this compassionate guide, Dr. John Gray expresses that you will survive and tells you how to find love again.
  
  While the process of healing is similar with both sexes, there are distinct differences between the ways men and women heal their bruised hearts. In Mars and Venus Starting Over, Dr. Gray offers gender-specific advice on how to:

  • Deal with pain

  • Find forgiveness

  • Discover the strength to let go

  • Rebuild confidence

  • Rise to the challenge of finding fulfillment again

  Filled with gentle guidance, healing practices, and compassionate wisdom, Mars and Venus Starting Over will help men and women explore the meaning of loss, find their way through the healing process, and discover the secret to moving on.

• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days: 365 Inspirations to Enrich Your Relationships  (1998)
  There's no doubt about it: The relationship between men and women is extremely complex. We often forget just how different the sexes are, and become frustrated and confused by a loved one's behavior. Every day we need to be reminded of these differences and realize that it's okay to be different as long as we recognize and understand the behavior of the opposite sex. In Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days, John Gray provides us with daily inspirations that lovingly and insightfully remind us of the contrasts between Mars and Venus, allowing us to solve conflicts in our relationships.
  
  Each month is devoted to a single theme, with the daily meditations enlarging on the particular subject at hand. The topics correlate with the very traits of the month itself: January, an exhilarating time of new beginnings, inspires resolve and the desire to excel. In February, when we find ourselves deep in winter's grip and challenged by constant emotional upheaval, we seek reminders of the importance of commitment and the need for patience. May concentrates on such springtime issues as harmony and appreciation. The topics discussed are as diverse as relationships are.
  
  Inside you'll find comforting and helpful advice on:

  • The true meaning of equality

  • Improving communication

  • Giving and receiving emotional support

  • The awakening of our inner qualities

  • Needing time alone

  • Keeping the passion alive

  • Reacting to stress

  Whether you need the thoughtful reminders yourself or know a friend or loved one who will benefit from these beautiful reflections, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days is a classic that no bookshelf should be without.

• How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Personal Success  (1999)
  Some Wise Words From How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have:

  • Your experience of the world reflects your inner state.

  • Whenever you are not getting what you need, you are always looking in the wrong direction.

  • Find your soul's desire, and start getting everything you want.

  • Material success can only make you happy if you are already happy.

  • The power to get what you want comes from confidence, positive feeling, and desire.

  • You have the power to change. No one else can do it for you.

• Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving & Lasting Relationship (1997)
  Mars and Venus on a Date is for all single people looking for love, including the newly separated or divorced who are daunted by re-entering the singles scene. Written with the compassion and understanding that could come only from John Gray, it takes readers through the five stages of dating: Attraction, Ambivalence, Commitment (to monogamy), True Intimacy and Proposal/Marriage. In its pages, readers will find creative ideas on finding a soulmate, making a commitment and sage advice on such difficult issues as deciding when to become sexually intimate and whether or not to live with their partner.
  
  The singles universe can be a nebulous and frightening place, and the men and women alone in this void have great need for the wisdom of John Gray. In the same way that Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus became the ultimate relationship book for couples, Mars and Venus on a Date will be the singles' essential guide.

• Mars and Venus Together Forever: Relationship Skills for Lasting Love (1996)
  This resource guide contains relationship skills that will help you and your mate sustain a lasting relationship that only grows richer with time. Mars and Venus Together Forever educates the different sexes on:

  • What your mother couldn't tell you and your father didn't know

  • What women need most and men really want

  • How men and women think and feel differently

  • The language barrier -- men speak "male" and women speak "female"

  • The seven secrets of lasting passion
  • And much more

  Filled with lively anecdotes, revealing exercises, and profound common sense, Mars and Venus Together Forever will help men and women explore new frontiers in their relationships, communicate effectively with each other, and discover the secret of "happily ever after."

• Mars and Venus in Love Inspiring and Heartfelt Stories of Relationships That Work (1996)
  John Gray asked a number of readers to share their own stories of how they've put his principles to work in their relationships. The result is this amazing collection of first-person accounts-along with Gray's own enlightening commentary-that will have you laughing, crying, and nodding in recognition.
  
  Gray's contributors answer such questions as:

  • What problems have you had in your relationship, and how have you overcome them?

  • What special things do you and your partner do for each other?

  • How do you best communicate with each other?

  • How do you practice what you've learned?

  • How does your love feel different now from how it felt before?

  Their answers illustrate more eloquently than any textbook how to use Gray's advice and counsel to create your own fulfilling, healthy, and loving relationships.

• Mars and Venus in the Bedroom: A Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion (1995)
  Men and women have very different physical needs. But Dr. John Gray explains how both can make small but important adjustments in their attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that their partners are happy in the bedroom -- and outside of it.
  
  Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come only from Dr. Gray, Mars and Venus in the Bedroom educate men and women on:

  • Advanced bedroom skills for great sex

  • The joys of quickies

  • Why couples are having less sex

  • Passionate monogamy

  • Sexual anatomy and oral sex

  • How to keep the magic of romance alive

  • And much more

• Men, Women and Relationships: Making Peace with the Opposite Sex (1993)
  Men and women are different -- there's no denying it. So why do we constantly expect the same actions and feelings from them? This enormously helpful book not only enables you to recognize the differences between you and your loved one but also leads you toward an acceptance of those differences, thereby paving the way for a stronger relationship.
  
  With his characteristic wit and wisdom, relationship expert John Gray explains the different ways men and women communicate, cope with stress, resolve conflicts, and experience and give love. Once you understand these differences, you'll be better equipped to handle inevitable bumps in the road, and be on your way to a long-lasting and truly loving relationship.

• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex  (1992)
  Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.
  
  Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they really are and how to communicate their needs in such a way that conflict doesn't arise and intimacy is given every chance to grow.

• What You Feel, You Can Heal: A Guide for Enriching Relationships (1984)
  The need for love begins with your need to love yourself. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone is trying to enrich and improve their relationships in some way. Enriching our relationships is an art and a science. For this enrichment to happen -- even before we can find and accept love -- we have to love ourselves.
  
  Through his experience in working with others to heal their pain, Dr. Gray has found patterns and messages that many of us received while growing up. These messages can keep us from loving ourselves -- and from loving and receiving love from others. By exploring how these messages became ingrained in us while we were young and how we are using them today, we can change old patterns and thoughts about ourselves and others as well as create long-lasting, fulfilling relationships.
  
  John Gray tells us that “Loving yourself in the presence of others means being able to express your inner gifts and talents without fear. When you don't love yourself and mask your real self, the cycle works in the opposite direction -- decreasing love and true self expression.”

Other

• 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 (2006), David Riklan, ed.
  
  101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 is the second edition in the series of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. No one can narrow self-improvement to a defined list of advice, methods and techniques. There are too many valuable experts who long to impart their wisdom onto you. Here is another amazing collection of 101 great chapters, all written by self-improvement experts from different walks of life--and all with their own unique perspectives and philosophies on the process of personal growth.
  
  Alan Cohen, Bob Proctor, David Lazear, Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson and many more of the world's leading self-improvement experts have joined together to give you a ton of amazing, proven and simple ways to immediately change your life for the better. You may know some of the experts already. Others you may be reading for the first time. But there's one common thread that ties all of these teachers together--they're all phenomenal educators who know to help people improve their lives.

• Self Improvement: The Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives (2004) by David Riklan
  The amount of resources available to help you improve your life is vast. Yet the self-help process does not have to be intimidating. Described as the "Encyclopedia" of Self Improvement, this useful reference guide narrows down the top experts in the field and sorts through their great supply of products and information.
  
  Includes information on Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Carlos Castaneda, Dalai Lama, Dale Carnegie, Dave Pelzer, Eckhart Tolle, Iyanla Vanzant, John Gray, John Maxwell, Kahlil Gibran, Ken Blanchard, L. Ron Hubbard, Laura Schlessinger, Les Brown, Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson, Mitch Albom, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Og Mandino, Paulo Coelho, Phillip C. McGraw (Dr. Phil), Rick Warren, Robert Allen, Robert Kiyosaki, Stephen Covey, Sylvia Browne, Wayne Dyer, Zig Ziglar plus 70 more.

• Mars Venus Cards (2001)

See also:

• Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century (2000) by Marianne Williamson
  In the realm of highest possibilities, what could America look like in 50 years? What kinds of changes would have to occur in order for that to happen? How can an individual or an institution best contribute to such change? And what is the deeper story trying to emerge within this nation and the world?
  
  Best-selling author Marianne Williamson posed these questions to nearly 40 of her well-known contemporaries, inviting them to open their imaginations to all the possibilities that could exist. Imagine is their collective response: a powerful, provocative, and compelling vision of a better America and a prescriptive call to action for significant positive change.

  Between the covers of Imagine, an unprecedented assembly of America's foremost visionaries, academics, activists, and spiritual leaders -- including Anne Lamott, bell hooks, Caroline Myss, Dean Ornish, Deepak Chopra, John Gray, John Robbins, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch,  Sarah Ban Breathnach, and Thomas Moore -- addresses issues of personal, internal transformation as well as institutional, external change, recognizing that the internal and external are not separate but intertwined, that we must find peace within ourselves before we can change the world around us.
  
  Today, America is plagued by darkness, home to a plethora of problems and millions of troubled souls. Imagine moves beyond the present, aiming a shining beacon of light on a brighter tomorrow.
  
  All author royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to the Global Renaissance Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to imagining and working toward a better world for our children and our children's children.

• Handbook for the Heart: Original Writings on Love (1996), Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, eds.