Here’s a short selection of good books about the mind, human behaviour & communication. All of them have some bearing on how to have good conversations, some more directly – like Dialogue and The Art of Thinking Together – and some more tangentially – like Focus or Just Breathe.
- 10% Happier, Dan Harris
- Behave, Robert Sapolsky
- Blink, Malcom Gladwell
- Cure, Jo Marchant
- Descartes’ Error, Antonio Damasio
- Dialogue and The Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs
- Drive, Daniel H. Pink
- Embodied Communication, Maja Storch & Wolfgang Tschacher
- Focus, Daniel Goleman
- From Gutenberg To Zuckerberg, John Naughton
- Fühlen, Denken, Handeln, Gerhard Roth
- Genes, Cells, and Brains, Hilary Rose & Steven Rose
- Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
- How The Body Shapes The Mind, Shaun Gallagher
- Just Breathe, Dan Brule
- Liars, Lovers, and Heroes, Steven R. Quartz & Terrence J. Sejnowski
- LikeWar, P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Booking
- Mindfulness, Mark Williams & Danny Penman
- Mindwise, Nicholas Epley
- Mirroring People, Marco Iacoboni
- Miteinander Reden, Friedemann Schulz von Thun
- Neuropsychotherapie, Klaus Grawe
- Positive Psychology, Sandra L. Foster & Jeffrey E. Auerbach
- Positive Psychology Coaching, Robert Biswas-Diener & Ben Dean
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
- Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux
- Revolution im Kopf, Gerd Kempermann
- Soft-Wired, Michael Merzenich
- Symbols, Signals and Noise, J.R. Pierce
- The Age of Empathy, Frans De Waal
- The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton
- The Brain, David Eagleman
- The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
- The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle
- The Culture Map, Erin Meyer
- The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
- The Joy Of Living, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche & Eric Swanson
- The Person and the Situation, Lee Ross & Richard E. Nisbett
- The Personality Puzzle, David Funder
- The Pressure Principle, Dave Alred
- The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahnemann
- Thought as a System, David Bohm
- We Need To Talk, Celeste Headlee
- Wer Bin Ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?, Richard David Precht
- What To Think About Machines That Think, John Brockman (ed.)
- Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Wired For Culture, Mark Pagel
