Psychology

Psychologist Angela Duckworth argues that passion and perseverance for long-term goals predict success better than talent. For parents, coaches, teachers and anyone who quits too soon.

• Psychology
• Self-improvement

Robert Cialdini explains the six principles that make people say yes, and how to defend yourself against them. For marketers, salespeople and anyone who wants to resist manipulation.

• Communication and persuasion
• Psychology

A psychiatrist's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps, followed by an outline of logotherapy, his theory that the search for meaning is the main human drive.

• Memoir and biography
• Philosophy and stoicism
• Psychology

Psychologist Carol Dweck explains how beliefs about ability shape learning, work and relationships. For parents, teachers, managers and anyone who fears failure.

• Psychology
• Self-improvement

Malcolm Gladwell argues that extraordinary success comes from hidden advantages, timing and culture, not talent alone. For readers who doubt the myth of the self-made person.

• Psychology
• Society and history

Robert Greene's guide to how power works, built from 48 laws illustrated by stories from court life, war and business. For readers who want to recognize and handle power games.

• Business and startups
• Psychology

A psychiatrist's account of how trauma changes the brain, mind, and body, and a survey of treatments from talk therapy to yoga, EMDR, and theater.

• Health and the body
• Psychology

A five-night dialogue between a philosopher and a youth that explains Alfred Adler's psychology: why the past does not decide your life and how to stop living for approval.

• Philosophy and stoicism
• Psychology
• Self-improvement

Robert Greene's guide to the deep forces behind human behavior, told through 18 laws and historical lives. For readers who want to understand themselves and read others better.

• Psychology

Charles Duhigg explains how habits work in people, companies and societies, and how to change them with the cue, routine and reward loop. For anyone who wants to break a bad habit or build a good one.

• Productivity
• Psychology

Morgan Housel's 20 short lessons on why behavior, not intelligence, decides how well people do with money. For anyone who wants a calmer, more durable approach to saving and investing.

• Money and investing
• Psychology

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the two systems that drive how we think, and the predictable errors they cause. For anyone who makes decisions under uncertainty.

• Psychology