Books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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  1. 12 Rules for Life

    Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Twelve essays on responsibility from posture to truth to petting cats.

  2. Talking to Strangers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2019

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Gladwell asks why we misread strangers, from spies and frauds to traffic stops, and why good intentions still fail.

  3. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, psychology.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  4. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, psychology.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  5. Who Moved My Cheese?

    Spencer Johnson · 1998

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to…

  6. Quiet

    Susan Cain · 2012

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.

  7. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.

  8. The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · 2012

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste…

  9. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking.

  10. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2000

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.

  11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    Rebecca Skloot · 2010

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, medicine.

    The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951.

  12. Outliers: The Story of Success

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008

    Because shares tags: psychology, nonfiction.

    Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.

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