This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Ways To Help Oneself and Life Lessons
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
- The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
- Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different by Chantel Prat
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
- Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
- If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
- Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
- The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
- Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life by Thomas Jordan
- You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
- The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- Five Questions to Finding Peace of Mind and Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia
- The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Fiction:
- Notes To My Biographer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
