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Books like Quiet

Loved Quiet by Susan Cain? 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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  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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    Hallucinations

    Oliver Sacks · 2012 · Psychology

    Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? ---------- Hallucinations don't b

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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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    Think Like a Freak

    Steven D. Levitt · 2014 · Psychology

    The book that can teach anyone to think like a freak

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    Superforecasting

    Philip E. Tetlock · 2015 · Psychology

    Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terri

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    The undoing project

    Michael Lewis · 2016 · Psychology

    Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it h

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    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008 · Psychology

    What actually makes high achievers; the book that popularised the idea of deliberate practice.

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