The Best Mindfulness Books This Year

Founding editor Barry Boyce reviews the standout books we shared in Mindful magazine this year.

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As founding editor of Mindful, I have the honor of receiving and reviewing hundreds of books over the course of a year. After careful review, only a handful make it into the pages of the magazine. Here are nine books that stand out as being my favorite this year:

1. Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important 
By Jon Kabat-Zinn, Hachette

In 2005, Jon Kabat-Zinn published his magnum opus,