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Books like Consciousness

Loved Consciousness by Susan J. Blackmore? 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.

  5. 5

    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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    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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    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008 · Psychology

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

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    Nonviolent Communication

    Marshall B. Rosenberg · 1999 · Psychology

    An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide s

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    Words and rules

    Steven Pinker · 1999 · Psychology

    How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this book, the profound mysteries of language are ex

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