As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des Moines Public Library’s six locations and online at dmpl.org. And find information on how to get a FREE library card and all its benefits at dmpl.org/get-carded.

Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power,” by Katherine Morgan Schafler.

Why you should read it: This book by renowned psychotherapist Schafler, selected as one of 2023’s best books by Amazon and USA Today, challenges people to rethink the way they look at the concept of perfectionism in their lives. The former on-site Google therapist argues that people do not need to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy, and crafts five “perfectionist profiles” that allows perfectionism to work for you, not against you.