Additional Reads
This more complete list reflects the readings that informed Charlotte’s Game, shaping its strategy, science, and storytelling. Written over three years (but learned over twenty), the book draws from my two decades immersed in psychology, behavioral economics, game theory, evolutionary biology, and social dynamics. These books influenced the game’s strategies, metaphors, ideas, language, and logic.
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Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work (Economist Books) – Marc Levinson (PublicAffairs)
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language – Amanda Montell (Harper)
Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology – Anthony A. Goodman (The Teaching Company)
Communication Matters: "That's Not What I Meant!": The Sociolinguistics of Everyday Conversation – Deborah Tannen (Recorded Books)
The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution – Katherine Rowland (Seal Press)
Nonmonogamy and Sex Work: A More Than Two Essentials Guide (10) – Zara Shah (Thornapple Press)
Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written: How to Beat the Odds and Make Better Decisions – Haim Shapira (Watkins Publishing)
Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers – Peggy J. Kleinplatz (Routledge)
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex – Sigmund Freud (nan)
"Communication Matters - He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language" (The Modern Scholar, Course One) – Deborah Tannen (Recorded Books)
The Value of Others: Understanding the Economic Model of Relationships to Get (and Keep) More of What You Want in the Sexual Marketplace – Orion Taraban (PsycHacks)
Understanding Nonverbal Communication – Mark G. Frank (The Teaching Company)
Introduction to Psychology – Catherine A. Sanderson (The Great Courses)
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern – Joshua Zeitz (Broadway Books)
The Science of Sex: Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered – Kate Moyle (DK)
The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution – Elen Feuerriegel (nan)
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life – Brian Clegg (Icon Books)
Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction – Ken Binmore (Oxford University Press)
The Essentials of Social Psychology – Wind Goodfriend (Audible)
Game Theory: The art of thinking strategically (Management & Marketing) – 50Minutes (50Minutes.com)
Never Chase Men Again: 38 Dating Secrets to Get the Guy, Keep Him Interested, and Prevent Dead-End Relationships (Smart Dating Books for Women) – Bruce Bryans (nan)
What Women Want When They Test Men: How To Decode Female Behavior, Pass A Woman's Tests, And Attract Women Through Authenticity – Bruce Bryans (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction – Véronique Mottier (Oxford University Press, USA)
Body Language: The Ultimate Self Help Guide on How To Analyze People And Learn Negotiation, Persuasion Skills For Dating And Influence People In Business – Matthew Harvey (nan)
Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science – Robert M. Sapolsky (The Great Courses)
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It – Alex Edmans (Penguin)
Social Psychology and Human Sexuality: Essential Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology) – Roy F. Baumeister (Psychology Press)
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist – Frans de Waal (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race – Daniel Z. Lieberman (BenBella Books)
Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication – Vanessa Van Edwards (Portfolio)
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion – David McRaney (Portfolio)
Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them – Jamie Madigan (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Evolutionary Biology: The Darwinian Revolutions Part 1 – Allen D. MacNeill (Recorded Books, LLC)
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb – William Poundstone (Anchor)
Debunked: Separate the Rational from the Irrational in Influential Conspiracy Theories – Casey Lytle (DK)
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (The Psychology of Everything) – Jan-Willem Van Prooijen (Routledge)
Propaganda and Persuasion – Dannagal G. Young (The Great Courses)
The Science of Influence: An Introduction to Social Psychology – Andrew Ward (Now You Know Media Inc.)
Fans: A Journey into the Psychology of Belonging – Michael Shaw Bond (Picador)
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder – Nichi Hodgson (Robinson)
How to Read People Like a Book: Speed-Read, Analyze, and Understand Anyone's Body Language, Emotions, and Thoughts (Master the Art of Self-Improvement Book 5) – Chase Hill (nan)
Science and Human Behavior – B.F. Skinner (Free Press)
A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be – Deena Emera (Sourcebooks)
A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens – Silvana Condemi (The Experiment)
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – Cat Bohannon (Knopf)
Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond – Scott P. Stevens (The Great Courses)
Practical Female Psychology: For the Practical Man (The Joseph W. South Collection: Understanding Female Psychology Book 1) – Joseph South (nan)
Understanding Cognitive Biases – Alexander B. Swan (The Great Courses)
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It – Daniel Simons (Basic Books)
Understanding Economics: Game Theory – Jay R. Corrigan (The Great Courses)
The Evolution of Cooperation – Robert Axelrod (Basic Books)
How You Decide: The Science of Human Decision Making – Ryan Hamilton (The Great Courses)
The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit – Aja Raden (St. Martin's Press)
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior – John von Neumann (Princeton University Press)
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions – Brian Christian (Henry Holt and Co.)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex – Joshua Piven (Chronicle Books)
Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment – Jennifer McNabb (Audible Originals)
The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain – David Shenk (Doubleday)
The psychology of online behavior – Nicola Fox Hamilton (Audible, TGC)
Expressly Human: Decoding The Language of Emotion – Mark Changizi (BenBella Books)
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution – Leonard Shlain (Penguin Books)
The Origin Of Humankind (Science Masters Series) – Richard E. Leakey (Basic Books)
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back – Julia Serano (Seal Press)
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality – Julia Shaw (Harry N. Abrams)
Dating Essentials for Men: Frequently Asked Questions – Robert A. Glover (nan)
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence – Kristen R. Ghodsee (Bold Type Books)
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature – Geoffrey Miller (Anchor)
Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust: How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives – Haim Shapira (Watkins Publishing)
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life – Avinash K. Dixit (W. W. Norton & Company)
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations – David McAdams (W. W. Norton & Company)
Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior – Roger J. Lederer (Timber Press)
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans – John M. Marzluff (Simon & Schuster)
Catastrophe!: How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse – Christopher J. Ferguson (Prometheus Books)
The Polygamous Sex – Esther Vilar (Pinter & Martin Ltd.)
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody – William Poundstone (Little, Brown Spark)
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most – Steven Johnson (Riverhead)
Evolution Talk: The Who, What, Why, and How behind the Oldest Story Ever Told – Rick Coste (Prometheus Book)
Men's Private Parts : A Pocket Reference to Prostate, Urologic, and Sexual Health – James H. Gilbaugh Jr. (Atria)
A Curious History of Sex – Kate Lister (Unbound)
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage – Paul Ekman (W. W. Norton & Company)
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception – George A. Akerlof (Princeton University Press)
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions – Gary Klein (Mit Pr)
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society – Kathleen McAuliffe (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions – Karl Deisseroth (Random House)
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain – Gina Rippon (BODLEY HEAD)
Evolution and Extinction – Stephen Jay Gould (Audio Scholar)
Think Like a Psychologist: How to Analyze Emotions, Read Body Language and Behavior, Understand Motivations, and Decipher Intentions – Patrick King (Big Mind LLC)
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life – Nick Lane (Oxford University Press)
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge – Cindy M. Meston (Times Books)
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It – Will Storr (William Collins)
The Alpha Male's Guide to Mastering the Art of Body Language – Seán Lysaght (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution – Lesley Newson (Oxford University Press)
Blindsight: The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains – Matt Johnson (BenBella Books)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – Steven Pinker (Penguin Books)
What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics (Marketing Research) – Melina Palmer (TMA Press)
The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It – Donald R. Prothero (Columbia University Press)
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives – David Sloan Wilson (Delacorte Press)
The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You – Sylvia Tara (W. W. Norton & Company)
Heads Up Psychology – Marcus Weeks (DK Publishing)
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire – Sai Gaddam (Dutton)
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) – Robin I.M. Dunbar (Oxford University Press, USA)
The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel (Harriman House)
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained – Nigel C. Benson (DK)
Why Trust Science? (The University Center for Human Values Series) – Naomi Oreskes (Princeton University Press)
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) – D.K. Publishing (DK Publishing)
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know – Robin I.M. Dunbar (Oxford University Press)
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts – Carol Tavris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) – Robin I.M. Dunbar (Oneworld Publications)
Critical Thinking: How to Effectively Reason, Understand Irrationality, and Make Better Decisions – Stuart A. Vyse (Learn25)
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life: From Darwin's brilliant idea to today's epic theory (New Scientist Instant Expert) – New Scientist (John Murray One)
Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction – Robin Dreeke (Portfolio)
Dating Essentials for Men: The Only Dating Guide You Will Ever Need – Robert A. Glover (nan)
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation – Randall Fuller (Viking)
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction – Michael J. Ryan (Princeton University Press)
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire — Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do – Alan S. Miller (Perigee Trade)
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease – Daniel E. Lieberman (Vintage)
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? – Bill McKibben (Henry Holt and Co.)
Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal – Lux Alptraum (Seal Press)
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do – Jennifer L. Eberhardt (Penguin Books)
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts – Annie Duke (Portfolio)
Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide – Scott A. Huettel (The Teaching Company)
The Tactical Guide to Women: How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage – Shawn T. Smith (Mesa Press)
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press)
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle – Andreas Wagner (Current)
Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More! (Adams 101 Series) – Paul Kleinman (Adams Media)
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology – Robert Wright (Vintage)
This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See – Seth Godin (Penguin)
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home – Dan Ariely (Harper)
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely (HarperCollins Canada)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – Steven Pinker (Viking)
Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense – Mona Charen (Forum Books)
Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It – Claudia Hammond (Harper Perennial)
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating – David M. Buss (Basic Books)
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences – Leonard Sax (Harmony)
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy – Mark Regnerus (Oxford University Press)
The Sex Effect: Baring Our Complicated Relationship with Sex – Ross Benes (Sourcebooks)
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems – Matt Simon (Penguin Books)
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves – Menno Schilthuizen (Viking)
The Joy of Pain: Schadenfreude and the Dark Side of Human Nature – Richard H. Smith (Oxford University Press)
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation – Matt Ridley (Penguin Publishing Group)
The Art of Body Talk Lib/E: How to Decode Gestures, Mannerisms, and Other Nonverbal Messages – Gregory Hartley (Blackstone Publishing)
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction – Michel Foucault (Vintage)
Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion – George J. Thompson (Harper)
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Dey Street Books)
Online Dating for Men: Advice for Pick Up Artists Who Want to Attract Women & Play the Game like a Natural – Knight Writer (nan)
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us – Richard O. Prum (Doubleday)
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History – Brian M. Fagan (Bloomsbury Press)
Hidden Persuasion. 33 Psychological Influence Techniques in Advertising – Marc Andrews (BIS Publishers)
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society – Cordelia Fine (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution – Henry Gee (University of Chicago Press)
How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction – Robert Martin (Basic Books)
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade – Robert B. Cialdini (Simon & Schuster)
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science – John Brockman (Harper Perennial)
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think – Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online – Mary Aiken (Random House Audio)
Strategy: A History – Lawrence Freedman (Oxford University Press)
Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom – Carin Bondar (Pegasus Books)
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human – Michael Kaplan (Bloomsbury Press)
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People – Mahzarin R. Banaji (Delacorte Press)
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior – Jonah Berger (Simon & Schuster)
From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis (David Suzuki Institute) – David Suzuki (Greystone Books)
How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation – Susan M. Weinschenk (New Riders)
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe – John Hands (Abrams Press)
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century – Howard Bloom (Trade Paper Press)
Evolutionary Psychology I: The Science of Human Nature – Allen D. MacNeill (Recorded Books)
The Modern Scholar: Evolutionary Psychology, Part II: The Science of Human Nature – Allen D. MacNeill (Recorded Books)
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction – Bernard Wood (Oxford University Press)
NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior – Eliezer J. Sternberg (Pantheon)
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge – Matt Ridley (Harper)
This Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for Love – Kayt Sukel (Simon & Schuster)
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk – Al Ries (HarperBusiness)
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life – Nick Lane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Sex, Love, and Money: Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce – Gerald Nissenbaum (Hudson Street Press)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (PublicAffairs)
The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior – Shlomo Benartzi (Portfolio)
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics – Richard H. Thaler (W. W. Norton & Company)
Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design – Alvin E. Roth (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Business of Belief: How the World's Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe – Tom Asacker (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction – John Brockman (Harper Perennial)
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities – Dossie Easton (Greenery Press)
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World – Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton & Company)
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated) – Charles Wheelan (W. W. Norton & Company)
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be – Marshall Goldsmith (Crown Currency)
Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy – Vanessa Fox (Wiley)
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion – Jay Heinrichs (Three Rivers Press)
Irrationally yours : On Missing Socks, Pick-up Lines and Other Existential Puzzles – Dan Ariely (Perennial)
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos – Leonard Mlodinow (Pantheon)
Economics: The User's Guide – Ha-Joon Chang (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Rethinking Reputation: How PR Trumps Marketing and Advertising in the New Media World – Fraser P. Seitel (St. Martin's Press)
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God – David J. Linden (Belknap Press)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari (Vintage)
Randomness in Evolution – John Tyler Bonner (Princeton University Press)
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One – Thomas Sowell (Basic Books)
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature – Douglas T. Kenrick (Basic Books)
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle – Douglas J. Emlen (Henry Holt and Co.)
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People – Joan Roughgarden (University of California Press)
The Marketing Attitude: Insights That Help You Build a Worthy Business – Marcia Yudkin (Creative Ways Publishing)
To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others – Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books)
Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex – Marty Klein (HarperOne)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – Richard Dawkins (Bantam Press)
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History – Nicholas Wade (Penguin Press)
The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction – Larry Young (Current)
The Art of War for Small Business: Defeat the Competition and Dominate the Market with the Masterful Strategies of Sun Tzu – Becky Sheetz-Runkle (AMACOM)
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World – Seth Godin (Portfolio Hardcover)
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic – Esther Perel (Harper)
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation – Bill Nye (St. Martin's Press)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck (Random House)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time – Jonathan Weiner (Vintage)
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do – Sharon Moalem (Harper)
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior – Leonard Mlodinow (Pantheon)
The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World – Greg Ip (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live – Marlene Zuk (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think – Douglas T. Kenrick (Basic Books)
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex – Mary Roach (W. W. Norton Company)
Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both – Laura Sessions Stepp (Riverhead Books)
The Definitive Book of Body Language – Allan Pease (Bantam)
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and The Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life – Uri Gneezy (HarperCollins Publishers)
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us – Jesse Bering (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets – Michael J. Sandel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Body Language – David Cohen (Sheldon Press)
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives – Shankar Vedantam (Spiegel & Grau)
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain – John J. Ratey (Little, Brown Spark)
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution – Chris Anderson (Crown Business)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (Harper Perennial)
Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation – Sally Hogshead (HarperBusiness)
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People – Joe Navarro (Collins)
Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind – Ajit Varki (Twelve)
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength – Roy F. Baumeister (Penguin Press)
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing – Harry Beckwith (Business Plus)
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain – Tali Sharot (Vintage)
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates – Frans de Waal (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas – G. Richard Shell (Portfolio)
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human – Matt Ridley (Harper Perennial)
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics – Nicholas Wapshott (W.W. Norton & Company)
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature – Matt Ridley (Harper Perennial (HarperCollins)
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human – V.S. Ramachandran (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution – Sean B. Carroll (W. W. Norton & Company)
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution – Nick Lane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body – Neil Shubin (Pantheon)
What Women Want: The Global Market Turns Female Friendly – Paco Underhill (Simon & Schuster)
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior – Ori Brafman (Crown Business)
Why Evolution Is True – Jerry A. Coyne (Viking)
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) – Jared Diamond (Basic Books)
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles – Robin Baker (Basic Books)
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives – Michael Specter (Penguin Press)
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy – Joseph E. Stiglitz (W. W. Norton & Company)
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature – Steven Weinberg (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World – Tim Harford (Random House)
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World – Malcolm Potts (BenBella Books)
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution – Rebecca Stott (Spiegel & Grau)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature – Steven Pinker (Viking Penguin)
Darwin and Evolution (Audio Classics) – Michael T. Ghiselin (Blackstone Audiobooks)
The Evolution of God – Robert Wright (Little, Brown and Company)
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – Richard H. Thaler (Yale University Press)
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else – Geoff Colvin (Portfolio)
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham (Signet)
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality – Christopher Ryan (HarperCollins)
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass – Bill Maher (Blue Rider Press)
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics – Michael Shermer (Times Books)
On Human Nature – Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University Press)
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design – Richard Dawkins (Penguin)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini (Harper Business)