Here’s a constantly updated list of books which are about the brain and behavior of humans (directly or indirectly, significantly or marginally). I’ve either read these books, or they’re currently on my “to-read” stack at home.
Many of these books could be listed in a few of the categories; I just picked the category which I felt best described the book overall.
Thinking Fast And Slow
Noise
Predictably Irrational
The Upside of Irrationality
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
The Logic of Life
The Undoing Project
The Hidden Brain
Freakonomics
Superfreakonomics
Think Like a Freak
Nudge
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Wisdom of Crowds
Why Success Always Starts With Failure: Adapt
Emotional Intelligence
Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (And World Peace)
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Mindfulness
Why We Sleep: Unlocking The Power of Sleep and Dreams
Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It Every Time
Pre-Suasion
Influence
EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide To Emotional Intelligence
MIndwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Useful Delusions: The Power And Paradox Of The Self-Deceiving Brain
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best And Worst
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy and American Interests In The Twenty-first Century
Maneuver Warfare Handbook
A History of Strategy: From Sun-Tzu to William S. Lind
On Grand Strategy
Ender's Game
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The DIfference and Why It Matters
Strategy Strikes Back
Grand Strategies
Strategy: A History
Sapiens
Homo Deus
21 Lessons for The 21st Century
Origin Story: A BIg History of Everything
The Most Human Human
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and The Future of Humanity
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Moral Animal
Creativity, Inc
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World
Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
The Five Dysfunctions of A Team
Principles
Collective Genius: The Art + Practice of Leading Innovation
On Managing Yourself
Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How To Build The Future
Invent & Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
Radical Candor
Good To Great
Business Adventures
The Ride of A Lifetime
The Culture Code
Organizational Culture + Leadership
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Work Rules: Insights From Google That Will Transform How You Live + Lead
Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies
How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
The Math of Life & Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
Thinking Strategically
The Art of Strategy
The Art of Statistics: How To Learn From Data
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
The Undercover Economist
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
Narconomics
The End of Wall Street
When Genius Failed
The Big Short
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism
Phishing For Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception
Irrational Exuberance
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
The Future of Capitalism
Meta-Cognition/The Nature of Thinking/Decision-Making
More Than You Know
Think Twice
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
The Great Mental Models: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
The Great Mental Models: Systems and Mathematics
Decisive: How To Make Better Choices In Life and Work
Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future
Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
The Art of Thinking Clearly