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The most-recommended psychology titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
53 recommenders
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
30 recommenders
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · 2021
27 recommenders
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker · 2018
18 recommenders
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff · 2018
The Elephant in the Brain
Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler · 2017
13 recommenders
The Way of the Superior Man : A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
David Deida · 2004
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell · 2019
12 recommenders
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk · 2014
11 recommenders
The WEIRDest People In The World
Joseph Henrich · 2020
10 recommenders
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein · 2013
8 recommenders
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan · 1997
7 recommenders
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman · 2020
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell · 2015
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr · 2003
6 recommenders
A Return to Love
Marianne Williamson · 1996
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright · 1995
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales · 2017
Irresistible
Adam Alter · 2017
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes · 2000
Blueprint
Robert Plomin · 2018
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain: How We Create Emotions Through Brain, Body, and Culture
Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2018
5 recommenders
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman · 2011
The Drama of the Gifted Child
Alice Miller · 1997
Mating in Captivity
Esther Perel · 2006
The Coddling of the American Mind
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff · 2019
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz · 2005
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff · 2003
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock · 2006
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
Matthew Syed · 2015
The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge · 2007
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Caroll Tavris · 2015
4 recommenders
Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
Mitch Prinstein · 2017
Mistakes Were Made
Carol Tavris · 2007
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya Chemaly · 2018
The Origin of Consciousness
Julian Jaynes · 1976
Subliminal
Leonard Mlodinow · 2012
How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer · 2009
Take Pride
Jessica Tracy · 2016
No Hard Feelings
Liz Fosslien · 2019
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts · 1968
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Paul Bloom · 2016
Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Dr. Kristin Neff · 2011
Power vs. Force
David R. Hawkins · 2002
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Gaia Vince · 2020
Darkness Visible
William Clark Styron · 1990
What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe Navarro · 2014
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks · 1999
Maps of Meaning
Jordan B. Peterson · 1999
3 recommenders
Finding Your Element
Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica · 2013
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
George E. Vaillant · 2012
The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peck · 1978
Descartes' Error
Antonio Damasio · 1995
Why We Love Dogs, Eats Pigs, and Wear Cows
Melanie Joy · 2010
The Evolving Self
Robert Kegan · 1982
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
C. G. Jung · 1969
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 1999
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky · 1982
Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz · 2010
Innate
Kevin J. Mitchell · 2018
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Chinese Edition)
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons · 2016
This Is Your Brain on Music
Daniel J. Levitin · 2006
The Origins of Virtue
Matt Ridley · 1998
This Explains Everything
John Brockman · 2013
Willpower
Roy Baumeister & John Tierney · 2011
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul · 1994
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Daniel T. Willingham · 2009
We
Robert A. Johnson · 2009
Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 2009
The War for Kindness
Jamil Zaki · 2019
Conscious
Annaka Harris · 2019
The Professor in the Cage
Jonathan Gottschall · 2015
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution
Joseph Henrich · 2015
Models
Mark Manson · 2011
Status Anxiety
Alain De Botton · 2005
Atlas of the Heart
Brené Brown · 2021
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman · 1952
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Timothy D. Wilson · 2004
Sperm Wars
Robin Baker · 2006
The Worm at the Core
Sheldon Solomon · 2015
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber · 2018
Brain Rules
John Medina · 2008
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit · 2009
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology
Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett · 2011
2 recommenders
The Madness of Grief
The Reverend Richard Coles · 2022
In Over Our Heads
Robert Kegan · 1998
Mapping the Mind
Rita Carter · 2010
Why We Act
Catherine A. Sanderson · 2020
Cringeworthy
Melissa Dahl · 2018
The Geography of Thought
Richard E. Nisbett · 2004
The Evolution of Desire
David M Buss · 1994
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony R. Pratkanis · 2001
Are Your Lights On?
Donald C. Gause · 1990
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
R. D. Laing · 1967
The Velvet Rage
Alan Downs · 2006
Collective Illusions
Todd Rose · 2022
Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity — What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
Christian Rudder · 2015
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Michael Tomasello · 1999
The Essential Difference
Simon Baron-Cohen · 2003
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
Douglas Edison Harding · 2002
