Best Nonfiction Psychology Books on Goodreads
1. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,719 ratings 
6. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating β 614,695 ratings 7. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating β 239,799 ratings 8. 
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by:
Stephen R. Covey
4.16 avg rating β 801,896 ratings 9. 
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
by:
Elaine N. Aron
3.84 avg rating β 52,846 ratings 
11. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,243 ratings 12. 
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
by:
Harriet Lerner
4.11 avg rating β 28,516 ratings 
14. 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by:
Robert M. Pirsig
3.78 avg rating β 241,452 ratings 
17. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,818 ratings 
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.97 avg rating β 189,403 ratings 
27. 
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.89 avg rating β 32,233 ratings 
29. 
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
by:
Henry Cloud
4.21 avg rating β 85,063 ratings 
31. 
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.15 avg rating β 23,339 ratings 
34. 
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating β 123,660 ratings 35. 
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
by:
M. Scott Peck
4.08 avg rating β 101,264 ratings 
37. 
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,729 ratings
38. 
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating β 49,293 ratings 
40. 
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by:
Lori Gottlieb
4.37 avg rating β 385,712 ratings 
43. 
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by:
Robert Kolker
4.15 avg rating β 139,634 ratings 44. 
46. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating β 25,079 ratings 
48. 
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
by:
Marie KondΕ
3.88 avg rating β 386,275 ratings 
51. 
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating β 22,310 ratings 
53. 
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
by:
Maxwell Maltz
4.25 avg rating β 27,529 ratings 
55. 
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by:
Michel Foucault
4.09 avg rating β 14,198 ratings 
60. 
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
by:
Joe Navarro
3.91 avg rating β 33,630 ratings 61. 
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
by:
Spencer Johnson
3.87 avg rating β 501,712 ratings 
63. 
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by:
Ori Brafman
3.78 avg rating β 19,712 ratings 63. 
65. 
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by:
BrenΓ© Brown
4.29 avg rating β 236,428 ratings 
68. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by:
Joshua Foer
3.88 avg rating β 93,074 ratings 
70. 
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
by:
Carl R. Rogers
4.16 avg rating β 18,081 ratings 71. 
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by:
Mary Pipher
3.89 avg rating β 26,412 ratings 
72. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,676 ratings
74. 
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
by:
Meik Wiking
3.77 avg rating β 111,998 ratings 75. 
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating β 549,112 ratings 
77. 
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating β 255,132 ratings
78. 
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
by:
Daniel Goleman
3.99 avg rating β 14,172 ratings 79. 
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
by:
Andrew Solomon
4.27 avg rating β 22,183 ratings 
82. 
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating β 155,558 ratings 
84. 
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating β 24,068 ratings 
85. 
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating β 34,095 ratings 85. 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR 3.90 avg rating β 12,112 ratings
90. 
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.03 avg rating β 26,516 ratings 
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by:
Christian Rudder
3.73 avg rating β 12,378 ratings 