15 Best Psychology Books

List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.

Ray Dalio mentioned this book in his book, "Principles."

One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

"Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across." - Naval Ravikant

"I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. [This book] is a treasure trove of both." - Ev Williams

"Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?" - Marc Andreessen

"The most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential." - Tobi Lütke

"100 percent of effective people seem to have read [this book]. In fact, it’s one of those things that when I meet somebody and they’re operating at a pretty high level, if you mention [this book], they’ve all read it." - Scott Adams

"Fundamental and had a lot to teach." - Naval Ravikant

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

Adam Robinson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Ramit Sethi mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"Fantastic. I got [this book] and I gave it to everyone in my company." - Ray Dalio

One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

"A very good book." - Tim Ferriss

"Interesting, not because of its content necessarily, but because it’s good for me to always keep on top of mind how powerful my habits are." - Naval Ravikant

Kelly Starrett recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

Mr. Money Mustache recommended this book on his blog.

Keith Rabois recommended this book on Quora.

One of Max Levchin's answers to "what's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?"

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

Ryan Shea recommended this book on his website.

"A good book which I recommend." - Sam Harris

"Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for years, and shares factual findings that will change the way you look at the world." - Derek Sivers

"Explores the sometimes subtle, sometimes radical changes we can make in our everyday cognitive strategies in order to avoid ending up unhappy and disappointed." - Maria Popova

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Had a surprisingly large impact on the way I think about the future, planning, travel, relationships, and so many other things." - Andrew Wilkinson

"The red-headed stepchild of happiness books." - Mark Manson

"It’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before." - Drew Houston

Jack Kornfield mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Sharon Salzberg mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

Kevin Systrom recommended this book on Facebook.

"I know most of the guys in the band read [this book]." - Mike Shinoda

"In my office, you will not see the degree I have from the University of Nebraska, or the master’s degree I have from Columbia University, but you’ll see the certificate I got from the Dale Carnegie course." - Warren Buffett

One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

Recommended on Dave Ramsey's website.

"The one book we encourage startup founders to read. [...] It's critically important for anyone in business." - Paul Graham

Derek Sivers mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"Seek to be understood." - Dustin Moskovitz

"One of the best and most insightful books I’ve ever read." - Joe Rogan

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

"One great book in this field." - Tony Hsieh

"First got me thinking about happiness (which led to Happy, my last book)." - Derren Brown

"My all-time favorite book on change." - Adam Grant

"Such a great book." - Andrew Wilkinson

Michael Hyatt recommended this book on his website.

"The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail." - Nassim Taleb

"Rigorously written (unlike many pysch books), fun, funny,surprising, enlightening." - Vinod Khosla

"A very good book." - Pavel Tsatsouline

"At restaurants, close the menu after you find the 1 dish that you like." - Noah Kagan

"[An outstanding book] on human behavior." - Ramit Sethi