Book 85: "Shyness: What It Is and What to Do About It" by Philip G. Zimbardo

All of us want to live a more fulfilling, rich life. But to accomplish this, we must be willing to risk freedom, to break out of our own prisons, to gamble on a new friendship, to take the chance on a love affair. It's not always easy. But there are ways that each of us can build our own self-confidence; there are definite social skills that we can learn; there are specific things that we can do to help the shy people in our lives.

A non-fiction book published in 1977. The author is a psychologist who started by discussing shyness with his students, which led to him studying the causes of shyness and setting up the Stanford Shyness Clinic to help sufferers.

As a life-long prisoner of shyness myself, this book has made me think more about the origins of my own shyness and just how badly it has affected me.