Books
Here, I share books on mental health, psychology, and well-being. I love exploring how the mind works and curating thoughtful reads that inspire self-awareness, emotional growth, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and others.
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Author: John Medina
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Author: Gabor Maté
Eating for Autism: The 10-Step Nutrition Plan to Help Treat Your Child's Autism, Asperger's, or ADHD
Author: Elizabeth Strickland
Heads Up Psychology
Author: Marcus Weeks
Eminent Indian Psychologists: 100 years of Psychology in India
Editor: Braj Bhushan
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
Author: Geneen Roth
Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think
Author: Tasha Eurich
Starving the Anger Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People
Author: Kate Collins-Donnelly
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author: Carol S. Dweck
Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
Author: Claudia Kalb
The Science of Living: 219 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine
Author: Stuart Farrimond
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Publisher: DK
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots: Gender and Visual Psychology
Author: Gloria Moss
The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Don Norman
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking is the Beginning and End of Suffering
Author: Joseph Nguyen
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Author: Daniel H. Pink
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide
Author: Nigel Benson
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Man's Search For Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness
Author: Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Author: Angela Duckworth
How Psychology Works: Applied Psychology Visually Explained
Publisher: DK
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Author: Howard Gardner
It Didn't Start With You
Author: Mark Wolynn
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Author: Brené Brown
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story
Author: Ricahrd Bach
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
Author: Susan David
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Author: Bessel van der Kolk
Noted to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
Author: Hugh Prather
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind
Author: Stephen Grossberg
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Author: Paul Bloom
Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel Foucault
Bodies That Matter
Author: Judith Butler
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Author: Babriel Wyner
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Author: Barbara Oakley
Man and His Symbols
Author: Carl G. Jung
Metaphors We Live By
Authors: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Love: The Psychology of Attraction (A Practical Guide to Successful Dating and a Happy Relationship)
Publisher: DK
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Author: Richard Schwartz
The Social Animal
Author: David Brooks
Radical Compassion
Author: Tara Brach
My Grandmother's Hands
Author: Resmaa Menakem
This Book Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A No-Nonsense Guide to Improving Your Mental Health
Author: Liz Kelly
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays
Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics
Author: Richard Shusterman
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
Author: Umberto Eco
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
Author: George Lakoff
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Authors: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
Author: John Bargh
Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide
Author: Nigel Benson
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” — Franz Kafka