A hundred books is an overwhelming list if you read it as a reading order. Read it as a map — find the two or three sections that match what you're working through, pick five from those sections, and skip the rest until your situation changes.

Trauma & recovery (15)

1. The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
2. Waking the Tiger — Peter Levine
3. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving — Pete Walker
4. What Happened to You? — Perry & Winfrey
5. It Didn't Start with You — Mark Wolynn
6. The Deepest Well — Nadine Burke Harris
7. Trauma and Recovery — Judith Herman
8. Healing Trauma — Peter Levine
9. The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté
10. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté
11. When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté
12. Running on Empty — Jonice Webb
13. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay Gibson
14. The Drama of the Gifted Child — Alice Miller
15. Homecoming — John Bradshaw

Anxiety & depression (15)

16. Feeling Good — David Burns
17. The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook — Edmund Bourne
18. Lost Connections — Johann Hari
19. The Upward Spiral — Alex Korb
20. Mind Over Mood — Greenberger & Padesky
21. Hope and Help for Your Nerves — Claire Weekes
22. When Panic Attacks — David Burns
23. The Mindful Way Through Depression — Williams et al.
24. Undoing Depression — Richard O'Connor
25. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers — Robert Sapolsky
26. Reasons to Stay Alive — Matt Haig
27. Darkness Visible — William Styron
28. The Noonday Demon — Andrew Solomon
29. The Happiness Trap — Russ Harris
30. Full Catastrophe Living — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Attachment & relationships (12)

31. Attached — Levine & Heller
32. Hold Me Tight — Sue Johnson
33. Wired for Love — Stan Tatkin
34. Getting the Love You Want — Harville Hendrix
35. Mating in Captivity — Esther Perel
36. The State of Affairs — Esther Perel
37. Non-Violent Communication — Marshall Rosenberg
38. Boundaries — Cloud & Townsend
39. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work — John Gottman
40. Why Won't You Apologize? — Harriet Lerner
41. The Dance of Anger — Harriet Lerner
42. Love Sense — Sue Johnson

Self-compassion & acceptance (10)

43. Self-Compassion — Kristin Neff
44. Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach
45. The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
46. Daring Greatly — Brené Brown
47. Rising Strong — Brené Brown
48. The Places That Scare You — Pema Chödrön
49. When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön
50. Comfortable with Uncertainty — Pema Chödrön
51. The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz
52. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It — Kamal Ravikant

Mindfulness & presence (10)

53. The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
54. Wherever You Go, There You Are — Jon Kabat-Zinn
55. 10% Happier — Dan Harris
56. Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright
57. The Miracle of Mindfulness — Thich Nhat Hanh
58. Peace Is Every Step — Thich Nhat Hanh
59. Real Happiness — Sharon Salzberg
60. The Untethered Soul — Michael Singer
61. The Surrender Experiment — Michael Singer
62. Buddha's Brain — Rick Hanson

Meaning, purpose & philosophy (10)

63. Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
64. The Second Mountain — David Brooks
65. A Guide to the Good Life — William Irvine
66. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
67. Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
68. The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday
69. Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
70. The Courage to Be Disliked — Kishimi & Koga
71. Man's Search for Himself — Rollo May
72. The Road Less Traveled — M. Scott Peck

Emotion & psychology basics (10)

73. Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
74. Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
75. Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
76. The Happiness Hypothesis — Jonathan Haidt
77. The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
78. Flow — Csikszentmihalyi
79. Authentic Happiness — Martin Seligman
80. Learned Optimism — Martin Seligman
81. How Emotions Are Made — Lisa Feldman Barrett
82. The Upside of Stress — Kelly McGonigal

Habit & behaviour change (10)

83. Atomic Habits — James Clear
84. The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
85. Tiny Habits — BJ Fogg
86. Mindset — Carol Dweck
87. Grit — Angela Duckworth
88. Drive — Daniel Pink
89. The Willpower Instinct — Kelly McGonigal
90. Deep Work — Cal Newport
91. Essentialism — Greg McKeown
92. Switch — Chip & Dan Heath

Sleep, mood, body (8)

93. Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
94. The Sleep Solution — W. Chris Winter
95. Lifespan — David Sinclair
96. Outlive — Peter Attia
97. Spark — John Ratey
98. Breath — James Nestor
99. The Molecule of More — Lieberman & Long
100. How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan

Pick two sections that map to what you're working through right now. From those, pick five books — read them before adding more. A hundred books skimmed is a worse project than five books practised.