How To Have A Conversation?

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How To Have A Conversation?

This is a list of books on how to have conversations.

How To Think About The Conversation Partner(s):

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
• Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
• The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr

What Prevents A Quality Conversations:

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel
• The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
• The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
• Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
• Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
• The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

What Prevents A Quality Conversations / Fiction: 

• A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh

How To Have A Quality Conversations:

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
• The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
• The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
• Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
• The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner

The Need For Disagreement And Different Perspectives:

• In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
• Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

Context Of Quality Conversations:

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier

Group Dynamics:

• Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
• Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
• Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
• Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich