ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life, Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeu. Ms. Kolberg is a professional organizer who specializes in working with chronically disorganized clients, and Ms. Nadeu is a renowned expert in Attention Deficit Disorder. The two have teamed up to write a book full of great information and organizational strategies that are useful for anyone, but especially those with ADD.
Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding, David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee. This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand more about hoarding. The authors are the preeminent experts in the field, yet they managed to leave out the clinical jargon and present the material with elegant simplicity and clarity. The information alone is reason enough to read the book, but it is also a workbook for hoarders to use as part of a treatment program to manage their hoarding behaviors.
Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life, Don Aslett. Anything by Mr. Aslett is a good read and provides a fun kick in the rear for those who need the motivation to get rid of clutter. Not necessarily a good approach for those who are truly struggling with emotional or psychological impediments to letting go of their stuff.
Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life, Deniece Schofield.
Conquering Chronic Disorganization, Judith Kolberg. This is a great book for those who have tried and failed using conventional organizing strategies. Ms. Kolberg specializes in innovative approaches for those who find organizing to be a true challenge.
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, Peter Walsh. Mr. Walsh encourages you to imagine the life you want to live, and then to use that vision as the guide for letting go of clutter and organizing your home to support and reflect the activities and passions that truly matter.
Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You-and What to Do About It, Cindy Glovinsky. Written by a professional organizer who is also a psychotherapist. This is a good book if you’re getting stuck letting go of your things and you suspect you may have some emotional issues to work through.
Messie No More: Understanding and Overcoming the Roadblocks to Being Organized, Sandra Felton. Ms. Felton is a reformed messy person who has written several books with practical, realistic help for those who are not naturally neat or organized. Many of her works include a spiritual component.
Organize for Disaster, Judith Kolberg. Pertinent information to get prepared for just about any conceivable disaster.
Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles for Conquering Clutter, Mastering Time, and Reaching Your Goals, Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping. Discusses the differences between right-brain dominant and left-brain dominant organizing styles and provides useful organizing strategies for right-brained people. Also an excellent resource for those who are left-brained and want to understand their right-brained house mates or coworkers.
Organizing for Your Brain Type: Finding Your Own Solutions to Managing Time, Paper, and Stuff, Lanna Nakone and Arlene Taylor. Ms. Nakone has worked with a brain researcher to identify four different organizational styles. She provides questionnaires to help you decide which one applies to you, then describes each one in detail, and provides appropriate organizing strategies for each brain type.
Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life, Julie Morgenstern. Ms. Morgenstern gives you a basic formula to follow that will work for most people, yet still allows room for individualization.
The Organizing Sourcebook: Nine Strategies for Simplifying Your Life, Kathy Waddill. An excellent guide with simple strategies that improve the function and flow in your home. Ms. Waddill is expert at reducing things to the simplest of solutions that make you say, “Why didn't I think of that?”
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save & How You Can Stop, Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias. Another great resource for understanding hoarding behaviors. The authors provide a concrete, step by step guide for addressing severe clutter.
