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1.
Demons
by:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.30 avg rating β 59,732 ratings
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ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour
by:
Helmut Schoeck
4.20 avg rating β 200 ratings
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The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
by:
Keith E. Stanovich
4.06 avg rating β 81 ratings
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
by:
Randolph M. Nesse
3.94 avg rating β 2,317 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by:
Barbara Demick
4.45 avg rating β 96,078 ratings
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The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
by:
William Von Hippel
4.23 avg rating β 1,884 ratings
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Inside the Criminal Mind
by:
Stanton E. Samenow
3.78 avg rating β 2,290 ratings
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The War of Art
by:
Steven Pressfield
3.98 avg rating β 113,876 ratings
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The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Timeβand What You Can Do About It
by:
W. Keith Campbell
3.74 avg rating β 287 ratings
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The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
by:
Will Storr
4.12 avg rating β 2,983 ratings
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Survive Like a Spy: Real CIA Operatives Reveal How They Stay Safe in a Dangerous World and How You Can Too
by:
Jason Hanson
3.35 avg rating β 533 ratings
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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
by:
Rory Sutherland
4.21 avg rating β 8,113 ratings
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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations
by:
Robert Greene
4.25 avg rating β 4,656 ratings
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Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
by:
Geoffrey Miller
3.85 avg rating β 1,352 ratings
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by:
Eric Jorgenson
4.40 avg rating β 64,725 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating β 3,971 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by:
Joan Didion
4.19 avg rating β 78,772 ratings
18.
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by:
Daniel Kahneman
3.67 avg rating β 15,527 ratings
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When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
by:
David M. Buss
4.09 avg rating β 858 ratings
20.
Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
by:
Michael S. Gazzaniga
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,386 ratings
21.
The Sociopath Next Door
by:
Martha Stout
3.77 avg rating β 38,199 ratings
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The Seasons of a Man's Life: The Groundbreaking 10-Year Study That Was the Basis for Passages!
by:
Daniel J. Levinson
3.82 avg rating β 268 ratings
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by:
Robert D. Hare
4.06 avg rating β 13,153 ratings
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
by:
Luke Burgis
3.80 avg rating β 4,203 ratings
25.
The Social Dimension of Sex
by:
Roy F. Baumeister
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10 ratings
26.
Life and Death in Shanghai
by:
Nien Cheng
4.33 avg rating β 13,874 ratings
27.
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating β 49,301 ratings
28.
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
by:
Ichiro Kishimi
3.93 avg rating β 120,617 ratings
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by:
James Clear
4.33 avg rating β 1,191,070 ratings
30.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by:
Eric Hoffer
4.20 avg rating β 11,543 ratings
31.
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
by:
Justin Tosi
3.67 avg rating β 345 ratings
32.
Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes
by:
Joyce F Benenson
4.09 avg rating β 140 ratings
33.
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
by:
Rory Miller
4.33 avg rating β 1,834 ratings
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
by:
Robert D. Putnam
4.04 avg rating β 4,289 ratings
35.
The Gulag Archipelago
by:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.33 avg rating β 33,413 ratings
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The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
by:
David M. Buss
4.16 avg rating β 3,900 ratings
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Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction
by:
Jason Manning
4.08 avg rating β 12 ratings
38.
The Conquest of Happiness
by:
Bertrand Russell
4.02 avg rating β 15,684 ratings
39.
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by:
Theodore Dalrymple
4.23 avg rating β 3,886 ratings
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The Road to Wigan Pier
by:
George Orwell
3.91 avg rating β 27,352 ratings
41.
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
by:
Diego Gambetta
3.83 avg rating β 162 ratings
42.
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
by:
Robert Plomin
3.95 avg rating β 2,221 ratings
43.
The Laws of Human Nature
by:
Robert Greene
4.35 avg rating β 27,003 ratings
44.
How the Mind Works
by:
Steven Pinker
3.99 avg rating β 20,874 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by:
Christopher Lasch
3.97 avg rating β 4,173 ratings
46.
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
by:
Cecilia Heyes
3.77 avg rating β 179 ratings
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
by:
Annie Duke
3.82 avg rating β 21,789 ratings
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
by:
Amy Chua
4.20 avg rating β 4,007 ratings
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
by:
Robert B. Cialdini
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10,205 ratings
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
by:
Frans de Waal
4.19 avg rating β 4,317 ratings
51.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by:
Matt Ridley
3.97 avg rating β 13,179 ratings
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Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge
by:
Cindy M. Meston
3.95 avg rating β 1,557 ratings
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Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
by:
Roy F. Baumeister
4.12 avg rating β 687 ratings
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
by:
Nicholas A. Christakis
3.96 avg rating β 2,440 ratings
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The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by:
Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25 avg rating β 1,522 ratings
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Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
by:
HΓ©ctor A. GarcΓa
4.22 avg rating β 51 ratings
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
by:
James W. Pennebaker
3.67 avg rating β 3,033 ratings
58.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by:
Stephen King
4.34 avg rating β 310,174 ratings
59.
Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game
by:
Jon Birger
3.73 avg rating β 1,022 ratings
60.
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by:
Bryan Caplan
3.95 avg rating β 2,006 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by:
Bessel van der Kolk
4.36 avg rating β 255,281 ratings
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating β 5,642 ratings
63.
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
by:
David M. Buss
4.34 avg rating β 1,562 ratings
64.
The Science of Storytelling
by:
Will Storr
4.05 avg rating β 7,477 ratings
65.
Man's Search for Meaning
by:
Viktor E. Frankl
4.37 avg rating β 832,661 ratings
66.
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
4.06 avg rating β 1,956 ratings
67.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.40 avg rating β 3,313 ratings
68.
Survival in the Killing Fields
by:
Haing Ngor
4.56 avg rating β 3,969 ratings
69.
Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by:
Scott Adams
3.78 avg rating β 3,101 ratings
70.
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by:
Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.92 avg rating β 1,299 ratings