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The Best Psychology Books That Will Make You Smarter and Happier
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Psychologist Daniel Kahneman reveals the truth about our intuitions and rationality to teach us how to better our lives. He explores the fascinating flaws and marvels of human behaviour and reveals to us the common errors in people's beliefs.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Bound for Schools & Libraries) a book by Daniel Kahneman
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Drive : The Surprising Truth about What ...
This is a wonderful, eye-opening book. Deep, readable, and providing refreshing evidence that there are domains and situations in which material incentives work in unexpected ways. We humans are humans, with qualities that can be destroyed by the int...
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Revised, Expanded) a book by Dan Ariely
Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn't mean you have to be one. Mark Manson's book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now
Everything Is F*cked a book by Mark Manson
This book proposes a complete reversal of all ordinary thinking about the present state of man. The critical condition of the world compels us to face this problem: how is man to live in a world in which he can never be secure, deprived, as many are,...
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety a book by Alan Watts and Deepak Chopra
Do What You Are--the bestselling classic that has helped more than a million people find truly satisfying work--is now updated for the modern workforce. With the global economy's ups and downs, the advent of astonishing new technology, the migration ...
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type a book by Paul D Tieger, Barbara Barron, and Kelly Tieger
This unusual book sets itself apart from the self-help category with its extensive scientific references, and intelligent, neutral prose, while the author's illuminating illustration of how the human mind works is both educational and refreshing.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom a book by Jonathan Haidt
The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion--a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold--now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Expanded) a book by Robert B. Cialdini
Top professional speaker and sales trainer Brian Tracy found that his most important breakthrough was the discovery that it is the "psychology of selling" that is more important than the techniques and methods of selling. Learn how to double and trip...
The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible a book by Brian Tracy
Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and sprea...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference a book by Malcolm Gladwell
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight ...
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Anniversary) a book by Daniel Goleman
"Although I cannot tell for certain what sparked my interest in the neural underpinnings of reason, I do know when I became convinced that the traditional views on the nature of rationality could not be correct." Thus begins a book that takes the rea...
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain a book by Antonio Damasio
In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray, provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them. Once upon a time Martians and...
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex a book by John Gray
We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scient...
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--And Keep--Love a book by Amir Levine, Rachel Heller, and Rachel Heller
In Personality Isn't Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality--a person's consistent attitudes and behaviors--is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting b...
Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story a book by Benjamin Hardy
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune 500 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language of personality types--extraversion and introversion, s...
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing a book by Merve Emre
What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships--and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system...
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery a book by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
Drawing on his own experience with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history. We discover the well-known who have strugg...
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind a book by Scott Stossel
There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very p...
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope a book by Johann Hari
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live ag...
Reasons to Stay Alive a book by Matt Haig
Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical C...
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness a book by Nassir Ghaemi
In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, ...
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect a book by Matthew D. Lieberman
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday ...
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement a book by David Brooks
In our default state, our brains constantly get in the way of effective communication. They are lazy, angry, immature, and distracted. They can make a difficult conversation impossible. But Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Waldman have discovered a pow...
Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intima Cy a book by Andrew Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman, and Andrew Newberg
In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics-in essence, counting the frequency of words we use-to show that our language carries secrets abo...
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us a book by James W. Pennebaker
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Bringing to life scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, this witty, accessible book reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine th...
Stumbling on Happiness a book by Daniel Gilbert
I was immediately charmed... Seligman's intentions are admirable and exciting. He is consumed by his mission, which is to take psychology on from its traditional role in alleviating misery, and broaden it into positive psychology -- the entirely diff...
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being a book by Martin E P Seligman
In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he transforms the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choice...
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking a book by Malcolm Gladwell
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, sugge...depression.In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice--the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdo...worse.By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a ...
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less a book by Barry Schwartz
Why is it so hard to say "I made a mistake"--and really believe it? When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so, unconsciously, we cr...
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts a book by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Does the chance of getting caught affect how likely we are to cheat? How do companies pave the way for dishonesty? Does collaboration make us more or less honest? Does religion improve our honesty? Most of us think of ourselves as honest, but, in fac...
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves a book by Dan Ariely
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stic...
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard a book by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth--even if you can get it--doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stres...
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking a book by Oliver Burkeman
Two mavericks in the field of positive psychology deliver a timely message Happiness experts have long told us to tune out our negative emotions and focus instead on mindfulness, positivity, and optimism. Researchers Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., and Robert B...
The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your Good Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment a book by Todd B. Kashdan, Robert Biswas-Diener, and Robert Biswas-Diener
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts--Rosa Parks, Ch...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking a book by Susan Cain
Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts;...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales a book by Oliver Sacks
In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narrative...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a book by Charles Duhigg
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der ...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma a book by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enj...
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience a book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is...
Outliers: The Story of Success a book by Malcolm Gladwell
One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie's groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed. Originally published during the ...
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Revised) a book by Dale Carnegie
After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and ...
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success a book by Carol S. Dweck
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psych...
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry a book by Jon Ronson
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad on...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones a book by James Clear
What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize? First published in 1899, Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking book, The Interpretation of Dreams, explore...
The Interpretation of Dreams a book by Sigmund Freud and James Strachey
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scient...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos a book by Jordan B. Peterson
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life a book by Mark Manson
Man and His Symbols (School & Library) a book by Carl Gustav Jung
The Lucifer Effect will change forever the way you think about why we behave the way we do--and, in particular, about the human potential for evil. This is a disturbing book, but one that has never been more necessary.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil a book by Philip Zimbardo
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding he...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed a book by Lori Gottlieb
Dr. Eric Berne, as the originator of transactional analysis, has attained recognition for developing one of the most innovative approaches to modern psychotherapy. Discover how many of these "secret games" you play everyday of your life: Iwfy (If it ...
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis. a book by Eric Berne
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't ...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know a book by Malcolm Gladwell
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as h...
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness a book by Kay Redfield Jamison
"Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism." -- Fortune The renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for ...
The Art of Loving a book by Erich Fromm
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of hi...
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Revised) a book by Carl G. Jung, Aniela Jaffe, Clara Winston, et al.
In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, an...
The 48 Laws of Power a book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of "genius," Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis ab...
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance a book by Angela Duckworth
Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer s...
Civilization and Its Discontents a book by Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, James Strachey, et al.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions--for fans of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Every day we make choices--about ...
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness a book by Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein, and Sean Pratt
Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ...
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy a book by Carl Rogers
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occas...
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools a book by Brené Brown
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psil...
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence a book by Michael Pollan
The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey's added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will b...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary) a book by Sean Covey, Stephen R. Covey, and Jim Collins
Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst a book by Robert M. Sapolsky
With two appearances on CBS This Morning and Fresh Air's most popular interview of 2017, Matthew Walker has made abundantly clear that sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life. Until very recently, science had no an...
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams a book by Matthew Walker
Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? How did Carlos's macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer? In this engrossing book, Irvin Yalom give...
Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy a book by Irvin D. Yalom