This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Is There Fee Will? How Much Control Do We Have?
The Question:
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours by Chantel Prat
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
Limits To Control:
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
- Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid: Life With a Learning Disability by Peter Flom
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
How Control Is Taken Away:
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
How To Gain Control:
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- [Upcoming] Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
