The Best-Selling Psychology eBooks of All Time

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Book Cover of Carol S. Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

By Carol S. Dweck – Leading researcher in personality and social psychology 

4.86
| 2006 | 320 Pages
Recommended for: 
Individuals seeking personal growth. Ages 12 to Adults.
You will:
  • Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to improve personal and professional success.
  • Discover the impact of mindset on learning and achievement in various life areas.
  • Understand the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and their implications.
  • Explore practical strategies for overcoming challenges and embracing failure as a learning opportunity.
  • Recognize the importance of effort and persistence in developing skills and abilities.
  • Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
  • Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.
  • People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.
Reviews:
Insightful
Readable
Practical
Engaging
Transformative
Repetitive
Slow Pacing
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Rated Amazon Best Book of the Year
Recommended by Satya Nadella, Bill Gates, Michael Hyatt and 47 others
Guy KawasakiIf you manage people or are a parent, drop everything and read Mindset
Danica PatrickThis I such a great book that applies to ever facet of life. Relationships, employees, work, activities, competition, kids...... it covers it all from the perspective of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Here’s…
Phil SantoroAttitude and perspective (ie. growth mindset), are more closely tied to performance and success than most people realize. great read
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Book Cover of David D. Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

By David D. Burns – Renowned psychiatrist & bestselling author 

4.60
| 1999 | 706 Pages
Recommended for: 
Individuals seeking to combat feelings of depression, improve self-esteem, and develop a positive outlook on life. Beginner to Intermediate readers.
You will:
  • Recognize and nip negative feelings in the bud to develop a positive outlook on life.
  • Understand the causes of mood swings and learn to handle guilt, hostility, and criticism.
  • Overcome addiction to love and approval, build self-esteem, and feel good every day.
  • Learn rapid symptomatic improvement, self-control, prevention, and personal growth.
  • Understand that all moods are created by thoughts and learn to control emotions through cognitive therapy.
  • The second principle is that when you are feeling depressed, your thoughts are dominated by a pervasive negativity.
  • Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, your emotions cannot prove that your thoughts are accurate.
  • At the bottom line, only your own sense of self-worth determines how you feel.
Reviews:
Scientifically Proven Techniques
Positive Outlook
Practical Advice
Life-changing
Easy to Understand
Outdated Information
Slow Paced
  • #2 Best Seller in Depression on Amazon
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Rated Amazon Best Book of the Year
Recommended by The Los Angeles Times and David Maas
The Los Angeles TimesA book to read and re-read!
David MaasI would personally evaluate David Burns' Feeling Good as one of the most significant books to come out of the last third of the Twentieth Century
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Psychology Book made by AI

By TailoredRead – AI that creates personalized books for you 

4.98
| 2025 | 30-300 pages
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Recommended for: 
All readers across all knowledge levels.
You will:
  • Get a Psychology book tailored to your interests, goals, and background
  • Receive a book precisely matching your background and level of knowledge
  • Select which topics you want to learn, exclude the topics you don't
  • Define your learning goals and let your book guide you to accomplish them
  • Get all the knowledge you need consolidated into a single focused book
Reviews:
Insightful
Focused
Highly Personalized
Easy to Read
Engaging
Actionable
Up-to-Date
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Book Cover of Lisa Barrett - How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain: How We Create Emotions Through Brain, Body, and Culture

By Lisa Barrett – University Distinguished Professor of Psychology 

4.92
| 2018 | 448 Pages
Recommended for: 
Psychology students and professionals. Ages 12 to Adults.
You will:
  • Learn how emotions are constructed rather than innate responses to stimuli.
  • Discover the role of culture in shaping emotional experiences.
  • Understand the concept of body budgeting and its impact on emotions.
  • Explore the relationship between emotions and social reality.
  • Recognize the importance of expanding emotional vocabulary for better self-understanding.
  • An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
  • In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning.
  • Scientific evidence shows that what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell are largely simulations of the world, not reactions to it.
Reviews:
Thought-Provoking
Well-Written
Deep Insights
Engaging
Accessible
Complex Concepts
Difficult to Follow
  • #447 Amazon Best Seller
  • #1 Best Seller in Emotional Mental Health on Amazon
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Rated Amazon Best Book of the Year
Recommended by Tomasz Tunguz , Kirk Borne, Daniel Gilbert and 6 others
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Daniel GilbertA brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin
Andrew SolomonThis meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought-out book reveals new insights about our emotions—what they are, where they come from, why we have them. For anyone who has struggled to reconcile brain and heart, this book will be a treasure; it explains the science without short-changing the humanism of its topic
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