50 Best Psychology Books
On February 25, 2026 By newsroom Topic: Best Books
Psychology became field and then a genre in the 20th century. These are Goodreads members' favorite psychology books.
Thinking
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
Girl
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Memories
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
David and Goliath: Underdogs
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
Men Are from Mars
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Thinking
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
Girl
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Memories
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
David and Goliath: Underdogs
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
Men Are from Mars
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
