These are Amazon's top eight bestselling books about midlife crisis at the end of April 2007 (we started with ten, but two were fiction).

We're happy to see Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger's The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women reappear -- that title is certainly on our recommended reading list.

Although not about midlife crisis per se -- and so not on this list -- Susan Crandell's "Thinking About Tomorrow" covers the ways people reinvent themselves at midlife. We looked at the book here and interviewed Susan here.

In a more metaphysical vein, Sara Davidson's new "Leap!" asks "what will we do with the rest of our lives?" You can find our interview with Sara here and other coverage here.

Men in Midlife Crisis

"Jim Conway writes for all men who face midlife and have thought about walking away from family, work, church . . . all responsibilities, and never coming back. Of his own midlife crisis he says, "I feel like a vending machine. Someone pushes a button, and..."

Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Chariot Victor Publishing (1997-10)
ISBN: 1564766985
List Price: $14.99
Amazon Price: $8.59

Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine

"Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality...."

Paperback: 320 pages
Company: HarperSanFrancisco (1995-02-03)
ISBN: 0062502727
List Price: $16.95
Amazon Price: $2.94

How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis: Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club

"A midlife crisis can devour a relationship. The Midlife Wives Club is a supportive online sisterhood for midlife mates-a place to vent some steam, share advice, or just get a reminder that they're not alone. In this guide, readers find wisdom from both Mi..."

Paperback: 288 pagesBargain Price
(2003-05-06)
List Price: $13.95
Amazon Price: $3.99

"Based on interviews with a wide variety of men and women and research on the literature of adult development, Mark Gerzon answers the question, "Is it possible that human beings experience a profound metamorphosis in midlife?" with a resounding "yes."..."

Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Shambhala (1996-03-05) (1996-03-05)
ISBN: 1570621683
List Price: $17.95
Amazon Price: $2.97

Midlife Crisis at 30: How the Stakes Have Changed for a New Generation--And What to Do about It

"For the first time ever, there are female law partners, vice presidents, head chefs, and account executives in their early thirties, and women in their twenties are heading up the ladder right behind them. While working women have always struggled to bala..."

Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Rodale Books (2004-03-18)
ISBN: 1579548679
List Price: $23.95
Amazon Price: $1.85

Therapy

Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1996-07-01)
ISBN: 0140249001
List Price: $14.00
Amazon Price: $3.96

On Women Turning Forty: Coming into Our Fullness

Paperback: 214 pages
Company: Crossing Press (1991-09)
ISBN: 0895945177
List Price: $16.00
Amazon Price: $0.39

The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women

"In the tradition of The Second Shift, a groundbreaking work that identifies and explains the phenomenon poised to redefine our culture When Sue Shellenbarger wrote about her midlife crises in her award-winning Wall Street Journal Work & Family column, the..."

Hardcover: 288 pages
Company: Henry Holt and Co. (2005-04-06) (2005-03-10)
ISBN: 0805077111
List Price: $25.00
Amazon Price: $4.85