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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 491 voters
The Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanPredictably Irrational by Dan ArielyThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellHow to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
sparringmind.com's 50 Best Social Psychology Books
87 books — 256 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm GladwellCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Pop Science Books
171 books — 187 voters
Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonA Walk Between Raindrops by Amalie JahnThe Program by Suzanne YoungThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Mental Health Books for Teens
148 books — 156 voters

The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
How we see the world
269 books — 144 voters
The Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman DoidgeBuddha's Brain by Rick HansonThe Mind & the Brain by Jeffrey M. SchwartzNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick House
Neuroplasticity
70 books — 138 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Best Cognitive Development Books
57 books — 75 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe End of Faith by Sam HarrisLeviathan by Thomas HobbesWho Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman
Atheistic books
138 books — 75 voters

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesClean Sweep by Ilona AndrewsSweep in Peace by Ilona AndrewsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Sentient Houses
160 books — 67 voters
Life Revisited by Laurent GrenierNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick HouseA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaStiff by Mary Roach
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
90 books — 51 voters

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick HouseManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksGenius Intelligence by James MorcanJust Babies by Paul Bloom
Head Science
156 books — 48 voters
What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughConscious Parenting by Nataša PantovićMindful Being by Nataša PantovićA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša Pantović
Best Psychology Books
35 books — 44 voters

Ubik by Philip K. DickNeuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonPermutation City by Greg EganThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Life is a Simulation
112 books — 42 voters
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskySpillover by David QuammenBeat by Jared GarrettA Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization
49 books — 40 voters

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick HouseThe Autistic Brain by Temple GrandinWhy We Sleep by Matthew WalkerSiddhartha's Brain by James KingslandHow to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
About the most complicated thing in the universe
235 books — 38 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIt's All Relative by A.J. JacobsOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
188 books — 32 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holocaust Industry by Norman G. FinkelsteinColumbine by Dave CullenA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
274 books — 28 voters
Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick HouseAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Cognitive Science (Abridged)
13 books — 24 voters

Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Witches by Stacy SchiffThe Arab of the Future 2 by Riad Sattouf
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
179 books — 17 voters
Yes Please by Amy PoehlerAs You Wish by Cary ElwesCan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz ChastJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonThe Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2014
198 books — 17 voters

The Death of Santini by Pat ConroyRelish by Lucy KnisleyThe World According to Bob by James BowenThe Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan BordoFive Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2013
178 books — 15 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiQuiet by Susan CainBrain on Fire by Susannah CahalanTrick or Treat by Lisa MortonWild by Cheryl Strayed
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2012
181 books — 14 voters

A Week at the Airport by Alain de BottonGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm by M.J. CarterThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirWe Two by Gillian GillChanging My Mind by Zadie Smith
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
68 books — 12 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot RebeccaThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHow I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike BrownThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2010
55 books — 12 voters

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. AnthonyShakespeare by Bill BrysonBorn Standing Up by Steve MartinMusicophilia by Oliver SacksWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2007
52 books — 10 voters
Curious George Goes to the Hospital by Margret ReyClifford Visits the Hospital (Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman BridwellPaddington Goes to Hospital by Michael BondGoing to the Hospital by Stephen CartwrightGet Well, Curious George by H.A. Rey
Children's Picture Books with Hospitals, Doctors and Medical Topics (Pediatric Health)
248 books — 9 voters

Books by Larry McMurtryAudition by Barbara WaltersThe Age of Wonder by Richard HolmesThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
71 books — 8 voters
The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. RamachandranThis Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. LevitinMy Teacher Fried My Brains by Bruce CovilleLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodThe Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin
"Brain"
270 books — 7 voters

Do-it-Yourself Brain Surgery by Stewart CowleyThe Human Brain and Spinal Cord by Edwin ClarkeThe Giant's Brain Vapor by Ndumiso P SikhakhaneBrain Tests by Edmund ShaftesburyHow to Fix Exploding Brains? by Ram Arora
Ever Seen A Man's Bwains?
100 books — 2 voters
I am the rainbow and the rainbow is me by Alice McSweeneyThis Beach Is Loud! by Samantha CotterillViolet by Flynn BeanA Day With No Words by Tiffany HammondGabby's Glimmers by Alice McSweeney
Children's Picture Books about Characters with Autism/ADHD/Dyslexia/Bipolar/Depression/Down Syndrome/Sensory/Emotional/Intellectual Disabilities
24 books — 2 voters

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