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Books like Outliers

Loved Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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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    Artificial general intelligence

    Ben Goertzel · 2007 · Psychology

    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2012, held in Oxford, UK, in December 2012. The 34 revised full papers presen

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    Mindset

    Carol Dweck · 2006 · Psychology

    Why believing abilities can grow changes everything; the book behind the 'growth mindset'.

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    Knowledge in Context

    Sandra Jovchelovitch · 2006 · Psychology

    "This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that it is through representation that we can ap

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    Consciousness

    Susan J. Blackmore · 2003 · Psychology

    Consciousness', 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could co

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    The Shallows

    Nicholas G. Carr · 2010 · Psychology

    Examines the influences computer-delivered information may have on human cognition using Marshall McLuhan as the hook, the history of communication as the trajectory, and brain science as the tool.

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    Quiet

    Susan Cain · 2012 · Psychology

    The hidden strengths of introverts in a world that prizes talking; validating and well-argued.

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