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Recommended reading
One of the ways to develop your understanding of psychology is to read great books about the various topics. If you are looking for something to read that is not your online textbook, you have come to the right place.
Below you will find a list of "new recommendations" that was created from an IB Psychology teachers' Facebook page. The green box below a list of "classic" books in psychology.
New book recommendations in 2020/2021
Bats sing, mice giggle by Karen Shanor
The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think - by Jennifer Ackerman
The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from my life as a forensic psychologist by Kerry Daynes
Forever today by Deborah Wearing
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Humankind: A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman
The inner life of animals by Peter Wohlleben
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated than That - by Ben Goldacre
Livewired: The inside story of the ever-changing brain by David Eagleman.
Originals: How Non-Conformists move the world by Adam grant
Out of my skull: The psychology of boredom by James Danckert and John Eastwood
Peaks: Secrets from the new science of expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Picking Cotton: Our memoir of injustice and redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt
Shrinks - the untold story of psychiatry by Jeffrey Lieberman and Ogi Ogas
Surviving Survival: The art and science of resilience by Laurence Gonzales
The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons: The history of the human brain as revealed by the true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery by Sam Kean
Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us by Claude Steele
You are not so smart by David McRaney - a focus on social psychology topics
Books
Amazing decisions by Dan Ariely
The art of choosing by Sheena Iyengar
Behave: The biology of humans at our best and our worst by Robert Sapolsky
The Big Disconnect by Catherine Steiner Adair
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Brain on fire - my month of madness by Susannah Cahalan
Crazy like us by Ethan Watters
Cultural DNA: The psychology of globalization by Gurnek Bains
Do no harm: Stories of life, death and brain surgery by Henry Marsh
Drive by Daniel Pink
Eat, Move, Sleep by Tom Rath
Everyone loves a good train wreck: why we can’t look away by Eric Wilson
The gene: An intimate history by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The geography of bliss: one grump’s search for the happiest places in the world by Eric Weiner
The great pretender by Susannah Cahalan (the story of the Rosenhan study)
Influence by Robert Cialdini
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot
In the shadow of the Holocaust: the second generation by Aaron Hass
The invisible gorilla by Chabris & Simon
Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum
The Lucifer effect by Philip Zimbardo
Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
The Man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
Mistakes were made, but not by me by Carol Tavris
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Neuromarketing: Understanding the buy buttons in your customer's brain by Renvoise & Morin
The neuroscientist who lost her mind by Barbara Lipska
Night falls fast – Kay Redfield Jamison
Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness by Richard Thaler
Numbers rule your world: The hidden influence of probabilities and statistics on everything you do by Kaiser Fung
Nurture shock by Bronson & Merryman
Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
Patient HM by Luke Dittrich
Phantoms in the brain by Vilnyur Ramachandran
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
The psychopath test by Jon Ronson
Quiet: The Hidden Power Of Introverts by Susan Cain
The Shallows: how the internet is changing the way we think by Nicholas Carr
The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist by Tanya Bryon
Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies by Joanne Smith and S Alexander Haslam
Spark: the revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain by John Ratey
The spirit catches you and you fall down by Anne Fadiman
The Sports Gene by David Epstein
The Survivor's Club by Ben Sherwood
Suspicious minds – how culture shapes madness by Gold & Gold
Taste matters: why we like the foods we do by John Prescott
Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahnemann
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
Why they kill: the discoveries of a maverick criminologist by Richard Rhodes
Why Zebras don’t get ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
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