Top 100 Psychology Books

📘 Thinking, fast and slow

In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 The Art of Seduction

This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis of civilization's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra to JFK, as well as the classic literature of seduction from Freud to Kierkegaard and Ovid to Casanova.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Power of Habit

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Read People Like a Book

Speed read people, decipher body language, detect lies, and understand human nature. Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a “mind reader” and forge deep connections. How to get inside people’s heads without them knowing.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Emotional Intelligence

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 into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Outliers

In this stunning new 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.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Games People Play

Games People Play (1964) explores the fascinating and bizarre world of psychological games, where players unconsciously manipulate each other into acting in alienating and self-destructive ways.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The Psychology of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 The artist's way

The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Women who run with the wolves

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Psicología oscura

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Dark Psychology

Have you ever felt manipulated or taken advantage of? Have you ever fallen victim to someone’s chairisma only to realize later that you had been scammed or ripped off? People are manipulated every single day, and the crazy thing is that most of the time they aren’t even aware of it.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Blink

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years, whether it's through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith's first book is a must-have handbook for instantly better mental health.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Think Again

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 How to read a book

A timeless lecture manual that examines reading through the lens of psychology, offering systematic strategies for adult learners and contributing to a broader understanding of civilization.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 The art of thinking clearly

The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning — essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Surrounded by Psychopaths

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Introduction to Psychology

In this Seventh Edition this have attempted to bring readers up-to-date, an ongoing challenge in our rapidly changing discipline. psychology, like other areas of Knowledge, has its classic theories and studies which from the basis for the much current work. Students should Know about these, too, and we have not negelected them.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Abnormal psychology

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH, Eighth Edition, is the perfect text to help you succeed in your abnormal psychology course! The authors -- all internationally recognized experts in the field -- show you how psychological disorders are rooted in multiple factors: biological, psychological, cultural, social, familial, and even political.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Behave

Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Secret Language of Relationships

This book cross matches every birthday with every other birthday and explains what the relationship between two people with those birthdays will be like. I’ve been using this book for over twenty years and have found it to be viscerally accurate, both when reading it before and after knowing a person.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Building a Second Brain

For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Make It Stick

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Dream Psychology

A groundbreaking book on dream interpretation by Sigmund Freud, first published in German in 1899.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The world of psychology

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Attached

Introduces the theory of adult attachment as an advanced relationship science that can enable individuals to find and sustain love, offering insight into the roles of genetics and early family life in how people approach relationships.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Women Who Think Too Much

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 So Good They Can't Ignore You

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your house once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Tipping Point

"New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Antifragile

An exciting book exploring the concept of 'antifragility' and its revolutionary vision for adapting to chaos and uncertainty.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The psychology of money

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Never Finished

STAY HARD

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Foundations of behavioral research

For the graduate level course in research methods that can be found in either psychology or education departments. This text examines the fundamentals of solving a scientific research problem, focusing on the relationship between the problem and the research design.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Grey

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty ... until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The Things You Can See Only When You Slo

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Feminine Mystique

Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Models

Models is a book on becoming an attractive man. But it does not promote tricks, techniques, and tactics to manipulate the laws of attraction. Instead, Manson encourages men to partake in self-development to attract women in an honest way.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The power of birthdays, stars & numbers

The most complete, comprehensive birthday forecast available--synthesizing the secrets of astrology, numerology, and fixed stars!In this delightfully addictive, wholly accessible book, two skilled astrologers guide you toward greater psychological insight, self-awareness, and a keen understanding of your unique position in the universe.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women

In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Publication Manual of the American Psycological Association

The "Publication Manual" is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators. Although it is specifically designed to help writers in the behavioral sciences and social sciences, anyone who writes non-fiction prose can benefit from its guidance. The newly-revised Sixth Edition has not only been rewritten.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The will to change

bell hooks gibt in diesem Buch eine treffende Analyse patriarchaler Stereotypen von Männlichkeit und die Auswirkungen auf uns alle. Insbesondere ihre reflektierten und konstruktiven Ideen zu alternativen Männlichkeitsbildern regen zum Nachdenken an und eröffnen neue Sichtweisen.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Why does he do that?

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves you.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The presentation of self in everyday life

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Essentialism

Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Nudge

Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans against their damaging psychological traits (inertia, bounded rationality, undue influence) by exploiting those habits to nudge people into making better choices.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Your brain on porn

When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Jung's map of the soul

More than a mere overview, the book offers readers a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Frames of mind

Explores the development of the theory of multiple intelligences over the last decade.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Chantaje Emocional/Emotional Blackmail

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The Denial of Death

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Understanding the Human Being

When a child is born, it is an unknown entity, just beginning the work of making themselves into a human being with appropriate human help. Maria Montessori calls this “The mission that compels the child to grow and to become a complete human being, to realize itself. For this reason the Child is truly the father of the adult.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Developmental Psychology

📘 My Secret Garden

First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation—from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women’s inner sexual fantasy lives.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL

¿Por qué algunas personas parecen dotadas de un don especial que les permite vivir bien, aunque no sean las que más se destacan por su inteligencia? ¿Por qué no siempre el alumno más inteligente termina siendo el más exitoso? ¿Por qué unos son más capaces que otros para enfrentar contratiempos, superar obstáculos y ver las dificultades bajo una ópt...

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Child development

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Developmental Psychology

📘 The Psychopath Test

"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Dictionary of Body Language

**“The ultimate body language reference. I’ll be both referring to and recommending this book on a daily basis for many years to come.”** —Amy Cuddy From the world’s **#1 body language expert*** comes the essential book for decoding human behavior. Joe Navarro has spent a lifetime observing others.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The Silva Mind Control Method

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Predictably Irrational

How do we think about money?What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy?What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means?What irrational forces guided our decisions?And how can we recover from an economic crisis? In this revised and expanded edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Predictab...

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Man and His Symbols

Excerpt from back cover: "This book, which was the last piece of work undertaken by Jung before his death in 1961, provides a unique opportunity to assess his contribution to the life and thought of our time, for it was also his first attempt to present his life-work in psychology to a non-technical public...

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Art of Reading Minds

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The hero with a thousand faces

Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Other people's money

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Nonviolent Communication

An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The anatomy of melancholy

Burton examines humanity through the lens of melancholy.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Indistractable

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 No Bad Parts

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The charisma myth

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The 5 a.m. Club

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Motivation and personality

This is an article written by David Sze that I've found on The Huffington Post Abraham Maslow is the leading figure in the tradition of humanistic psychology and the modern Positive Psychology movement owes a huge debt to his theories. His ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ remains widely recognized and used.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Reinventing your life

a miracle and a must read for almost everybody !!!!!!!!!!

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Road Less Traveled

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

How can we have better relationships? In this Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals the vital do's and don'ts of relationships. This is a book for us all.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Developmental Psychology

📘 Musicophilia

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 The defining decade

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Developmental Psychology

📘 Feeling good

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 Made to stick

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 The secret of childhood

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Developmental Psychology

📘 Introduction to counseling and guidance

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Dark Psychology Tricks : Manipulation Body Language Dark Psychology

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Sosiologi Suatu Pengantar.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Ask and it is given

This book, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The principles of psychology

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 This is me letting you go

Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Daring Greatly

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology

📘 Educational Psychology

Foster the intellectual and practical strategies needed to be an effective teacher Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice offers complete, up-to-date information that is presented in readable, practical ways and illustrated with engaging examples and case studies.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Scattered

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Gabor Mate believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 The Winner Effect

"What makes a winner? Why do some succeed both in life and in business, and others fail? And why do a few individuals end up supremely powerful, while many remain powerless? Are men more likely to be power junkies than women? The 'winner effect' is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is ...

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Life's Amazing Secrets

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Dark Psychology 101 and Dark Psychology Secrets

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Stolen Focus

Is your ability to focus and pay attention in free fall? You are not alone. The average office worker now focuses on any one task for just three minutes. But it's not your fault. Your attention didn't collapse. It has been stolen. Internationally bestselling author Johann Hari shows twelve deep factors harming our focus.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Cognitive Psychology

📘 What Happened to You?

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Atlas of the Heart

In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us. Buy the Book Guides, passages, and podcasts Article The Practice of Story Stewardship

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Wherever You Go, There You Are

The time-honored national bestseller, updated with a new afterword, celebrating 10 years of influencing the way we live.When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date.

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: General Psychology

📘 Hold Me Tight

Genre: Psychology Subgenre: Social Psychology