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Best Psychology Books

Looking for the best psychology books? We have created this list for you. There are at least three significant reasons to read psychology books:

  1. Understand yourself and your motivations.
  2. Learn about and understand other people.
  3. Change a behavior or feeling.

And the more you know about psychology and human behavior, the better. Reading good psychology books lets you jump-start your education by absorbing what researchers, professors, and authors spent years putting together.

The best authors and minds in the area of psychology have given us all the information we need, in order to understand how our brains really work.

All the best science behind habits, thoughts and decisions has been written down for us to read. There’s so much useful knowledge we can obtain from truly understanding how our brains function.

To be successful in life, you need to adopt successful habits, be a smart thinker, and be able to make quick and clever decisions. However, there’s no point even attempting to do this unless you understand the science behind it all.


Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

If the conscious mind–the part you consider to be you–is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?  In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you […]

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures – including humans – think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host’s behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between […]

Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation

Learn to Take Control of Your Life, Through an In-Depth Understanding of Motivation: What is motivation? Why do we feel totally paralyzed to do certain things, and utterly unable to quit others? Too many people conclude, falsely, that they are just lazy, or lacking in willpower. But what they lack is a correct understanding of […]

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the reason we make other people suffer—is that we don’t […]

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the reason we make other people suffer—is that we don’t […]

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I’ve ever read.”—Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now. Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most […]

Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and […]

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women’s interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics – as well as their implications for […]

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

A New York Times bestseller: “A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds.” —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals […]

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in AutismA groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading….Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune).Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of […]