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Loved Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur by Arnold Hauser? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl · 1946 · Psychology

    A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.

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    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 · Psychology

    The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · Psychology

    How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.

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    The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk · 2014 · Psychology

    How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.

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    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding · 1954 · Psychology

    Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to g

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    The Art of Loving

    Erich Fromm · 1956 · Psychology

    "The Art of Loving" (1956) is a seminal work by psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm. In this book, Fromm explores the concept of love in a profound and comprehensive manner, arguing that

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    Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins

    Erich Neumann · 1949 · Psychology

    The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a w

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    Between the Acts

    Virginia Woolf · 1941 · Psychology

    "Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book an

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    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller · 1961 · Psychology

    Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is tot

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Ken Kesey · 1962 · Psychology

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind; including a criti

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