1. “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
2. “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
3. “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg
4. “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert B. Cialdini
5. “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain
7. “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink
8. “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement” by David Brooks
9. “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom” by Jonathan Haidt
10. “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk
11. “Thinking About Thinking” by Jerome Bruner
12. “The Art of Loving” by Erich Fromm
13. “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” by Daniel Goleman
14. “The Developing Person Through the Lifespan” by Kathleen Stassen Berger
15. “A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness” by Nassir Ghaemi
16. “Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert
17. “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
18. “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature” by Steven Pinker
19. “The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making” by Scott Plous
20. “Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications” by William Crain
21. “Inside the Criminal Mind” by Stanton Samenow
22. “The Psychology of Terrorism” by John Horgan
23. “Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom
24. “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less” by Barry Schwartz
25. “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry” by Jon Ronson
26. “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect” by Matthew D. Lieberman
27. “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating” by David M. Buss
28. “The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human” by V.S. Ramachandran
29. “The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought” by Gary Marcus
30. “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness” by Kay Redfield Jamison
31. “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” by Philip Zimbardo
32. “The Social Construction of Reality” by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
33. “Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters
34. “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science” by Norman Doidge
35. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes
36. “From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System” by John G. Nicholls
37. “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions” by Gary Klein
38. “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales” by Oliver Sacks
39. “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts” by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
40. “The Protégé Effect” by K. Anders Ericsson
41. “Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights” by Gary Klein
42. “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason” by Michel Foucault
43. “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping” by Robert M. Sapolsky
44. “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker
45. “An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales” by Oliver Sacks
46. “The Health Psychology Reader” edited by David F. Marks and Michael Murray
47. “The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life” by Joseph LeDoux
48. “The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime” by Adrian Raine
49. “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance” by Steven Kotler
50. “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” by Sigmund Freud.