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Self Deception Books
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The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.75 — 199,614 ratings — published 2011
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 4 times as self-deception)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,733 ratings — published 2007
I Told Me So: The Role of Self-Deception in Christian Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-deception)
avg rating 4.17 — 318 ratings — published 2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,648 ratings — published 2009
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,819 ratings — published 2017
Self-Deception Unmasked (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.74 — 23 ratings — published 2000
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,077 ratings — published 2011
Self-Deception and Morality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-deception)
avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 1986
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-deception)
avg rating 4.10 — 35,671 ratings — published 2000
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,963 ratings — published 1886
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,013,719 ratings — published 2026
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,538 ratings — published 1882
Sociopath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.74 — 122,931 ratings — published 2024
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.16 — 262,182 ratings — published 1864
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.36 — 307,683 ratings — published 1965
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.13 — 227,642 ratings — published 1927
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.77 — 48,956 ratings — published 1986
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.14 — 263,149 ratings — published 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,012,112 ratings — published 1890
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,999 ratings — published 1973
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,611 ratings — published 1966
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,738 ratings — published 2007
Prometheus Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,697 ratings — published 1983
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,339 ratings — published
Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationship, Coming to Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,389 ratings — published 2001
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,035 ratings — published 2019
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,122 ratings — published 1844
Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.88 — 232 ratings — published 2012
La terra del rimorso (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.43 — 253 ratings — published 1961
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,534 ratings — published 2007
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2011
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.80 — 896,708 ratings — published 1861
Hell Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,647 ratings — published 1918
Le Déni ou la fabrique de l'aveuglement (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published
Quatrefoil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.89 — 161 ratings — published 1950
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.34 — 305,167 ratings — published 1956
Self-Deception (New Problems of Philosophy)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Seeing through Self-Deception (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1998
The Mythomanias: The Nature of Deception and Self-deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 2004
Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality (Volume 69) (Lecture Notes)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1998
As Meat Loves Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,500 ratings — published 2001
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.32 — 102,634 ratings — published 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.12 — 158,060 ratings — published 2021
Changing Minds (Leadership for the Common Good)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.59 — 661 ratings — published 2004
Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,371 ratings — published
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,359 ratings — published 2021
Map and Territory (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.15 — 539 ratings — published 2015
Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 3.86 — 375 ratings — published 2021
My Cousin Rachel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as self-deception)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,567 ratings — published 1951
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
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“We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.”
― The Sea, the Sea
― The Sea, the Sea
