steamHouse Reference Library

Version: 7.0 (Unified Library)
Date: January 08, 2026
Category System: 48 Categories (v3 system, 6 Domains: A-F)
Unique Books: 1,038 (verified after de-duplication)

VETTING LEGEND

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CATEGORY MAP (48 Categories)

DomainRangeCountDescriptionAA1-A66Understanding the SelfBB1-B77Thinking & ReasoningCC1-C55Communication & RelationshipsDD1-D1111Life Skills & WellbeingEE1-E1515Society & SystemsFF1-F44Creative Canon & Communication ArtsTOTAL48

DOMAIN A: UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

A1: Brain Architecture & Cognition (43 books)

  1. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW - Daniel Kahneman 🥇

  2. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL - Dan Ariely ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  3. BEHAVE - Robert Sapolsky 🥇

  4. BEFORE YOU KNOW IT - John Bargh ✅

  5. THE FUTURE OF THE MIND - Michio Kaku ✅

  6. THE SOCIAL ANIMAL - David Brooks ✅

  7. THE RIGHTEOUS MIND - Jonathan Haidt 🥇

  8. SOCIAL - Matthew Lieberman ✅

  9. ELASTIC - Leonard Mlodinow 🥇

  10. THE WELL-TUNED BRAIN - Peter C. Whybrow ✅

  11. THE SHALLOWS - Nicholas Carr ✅

  12. YOUR STONE AGE BRAIN IN THE SCREEN AGE - Richard Cytowic ✅

  13. THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF - Norman Doidge ✅

  14. THE DEVELOPING MIND - Daniel J. Siegel 🥇

  15. THE MOLECULE OF MORE - Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long ✅

  16. THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION - Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach ✅

  17. THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE - Andy Clark ✅

  18. INCOGNITO - David Eagleman 🥇

  19. THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES - Terrence Deacon ✅

  20. MIND IN MOTION - Barbara Tversky 🥇

  21. THE TELL-TALE BRAIN - V.S. Ramachandran 🥇

  22. HOW TO CREATE A MIND - Ray Kurzweil ✅

  23. THE EXTENDED MIND - Annie Murphy Paul ✅

  24. THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY - Iain McGilchrist ✅

  25. FOCUS - Daniel Goleman ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  26. THINK TANK - David J. Linden (ed.) ✅

  27. NEUROTRIBES - Steve Silberman

  28. UNIQUELY HUMAN - Barry M. Prizant

  29. DIVERGENT MIND - Jenara Nerenberg

  30. THE ADHD ADVANTAGE - Dale Archer

  31. DISABILITY VISIBILITY - Alice Wong (ed.)

  32. HABEN - Haben Girma

  33. DEMYSTIFYING DISABILITY - Emily Ladau

  34. SITTING PRETTY - Rebekah Taussig

  35. HEALTH COMMUNISM - Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant

  36. AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM - Ashley Shew

  37. BLACK DISABILITY POLITICS - Sami Schalk

  38. BODYMINDS REIMAGINED - Sami Schalk

  39. EMPIRE OF NORMALITY - Robert Chapman

  40. BEASTS OF BURDEN - Sunaura Taylor

  41. NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US - James I. Charlton

  42. THE YEAR I MET MY BRAIN - Whitney Ellenby (verify)

  43. NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES - Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist et al. (eds.)

A2: Consciousness, Intuition & Self-Awareness (38 books)

  1. SOURCES OF THE SELF - Charles Taylor ✅

  2. THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS - Jonathan Haidt 🥇

  3. BLINK - Malcolm Gladwell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  4. BEFORE YOU KNOW IT - John Bargh ✅ (cross-ref A1)

  5. STRANGERS TO OURSELVES - Timothy Wilson ✅

  6. CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED - Daniel Dennett ✅

  7. I AM A STRANGE LOOP - Douglas Hofstadter ✅

  8. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS - Daniel Gilbert 🥇

  9. PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE - Michael Polanyi ✅

  10. DEVIATE - Beau Lotto ✅

  11. MINDFULNESS IN PLAIN ENGLISH - Bhante Gunaratana ✅

  12. THE SELF ILLUSION - Bruce Hood ✅

  13. THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY - Alan Watts ✅

  14. MORAL IMAGINATION - David Bromwich ✅

  15. THE CONSCIOUSNESS INSTINCT - Michael Gazzaniga 🥇

  16. THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS - Antonio Damasio 🥇

  17. WAKING UP - Sam Harris ✅

  18. INSIGHT - Tasha Eurich ✅

  19. THE ELEPHANT IN THE BRAIN - Robin Hanson & Kevin Simler ✅

  20. BIASED - Jennifer L. Eberhardt

  21. AWARENESS - Anthony de Mello

  22. 10% HAPPIER - Dan Harris

  23. ALTERED TRAITS - Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson

  24. THE ATTENTION REVOLUTION - B. Alan Wallace

  25. THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING - Osho

  26. THE EGO TUNNEL - Thomas Metzinger

  27. THE UNTETHERED SOUL - Michael A. Singer

  28. THE USER ILLUSION - Tor Nørretranders

  29. THE WOUNDED STORYTELLER - Arthur W. Frank

  30. FLOURISH - Martin E.P. Seligman

  31. AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS - Martin E.P. Seligman

  32. CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND VIRTUES - Christopher Peterson & Martin E.P. Seligman

  33. POSITIVITY - Barbara L. Fredrickson

  34. THE GOOD LIFE - Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz

  35. THE HOW OF HAPPINESS - Sonja Lyubomirsky

  36. THE MYTHS OF HAPPINESS - Sonja Lyubomirsky

  37. INCOGNITO - David Eagleman (cross-ref A1)

  38. THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY - Iain McGilchrist (cross-ref A1)

A3: Emotional Intelligence & Regulation (30 books)

  1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - Daniel Goleman 🥇 ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  2. THE FEAR FACTOR - Abigail Marsh 🥇

  3. PERMISSION TO FEEL - Marc Brackett 🥇

  4. MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS - Thibaut Meurisse ✅

  5. RAISING AN EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT CHILD - John Gottman 🥇

  6. EMOTIONAL AGILITY - Susan David 🥇

  7. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 2.0 - Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves ✅

  8. THE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT MANAGER - David Caruso & Peter Salovey ✅

  9. DARING GREATLY - Brené Brown ✅

  10. HOW EMOTIONS ARE MADE - Lisa Feldman Barrett 🥇

  11. RADICAL ACCEPTANCE - Tara Brach ✅

  12. F*CK FEELINGS - Michael & Sarah Bennett ✅

  13. EMOTIONAL SUCCESS - David DeSteno ✅

  14. EMOTIONAL - Leonard Mlodinow 🥇

  15. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? - Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey 🥇

  16. ATLAS OF THE HEART - Brené Brown 🥇

  17. THE HACKING OF THE AMERICAN MIND - Robert Lustig 🥇

  18. THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD - Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson 🥇

  19. BOUNDARIES - Henry Cloud & John Townsend ✅

  20. THE ALGEBRA OF HAPPINESS - Scott Galloway ✅

  21. HARDWIRING HAPPINESS - Rick Hanson

  22. IN AN UNSPOKEN VOICE - Peter A. Levine 🥇

  23. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE - Bessel van der Kolk 🥇

  24. THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF YOUR BRAIN - Richard J. Davidson 🥇

  25. THE GIFTS OF IMPERFECTION - Brené Brown ✅

  26. THE POLYVAGAL THEORY - Stephen W. Porges 🥇

  27. THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS - Karla McLaren ✅

  28. MINDSIGHT - Daniel J. Siegel 🥇

  29. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS - Daniel Gilbert 🥇f A2)*

  30. THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS - Jonathan Haidt 🥇f A2)*

A4: Identity, Character & Purpose (34 books)

  1. GRIT - Angela Duckworth 🥇

  2. MINDSET - Carol Dweck 🥇

  3. IDENTITY AND THE LIFE CYCLE - Erik Erikson 🥇

  4. DRIVE - Daniel Pink ✅

  5. MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING - Viktor Frankl 🥇

  6. EGO IS THE ENEMY - Ryan Holiday ✅

  7. IMMUNITY TO CHANGE - Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey 🥇

  8. SELF AND IDENTITY: THE BASICS - Megan E. Birney ✅

  9. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE - Stephen Covey 🥇

  10. NOTES ON BEING A MAN - Scott Galloway ✅

  11. ON LIBERTY - John Stuart Mill ✅

  12. 12 RULES FOR LIFE - Jordan Peterson ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  13. MAPS OF MEANING - Jordan Peterson ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  14. BEYOND ORDER - Jordan Peterson ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  15. LEARNED OPTIMISM - Martin Seligman 🥇

  16. ESSENTIALISM - Greg McKeown ✅

  17. FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS - Oliver Burkeman ✅

  18. QUIET - Susan Cain ✅

  19. THE ART OF POSSIBILITY - Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander 🥇

  20. THE POWER OF MOMENTS - Chip & Dan Heath 🥇

  21. WORKING IDENTITY - Herminia Ibarra ✅

  22. A GUIDE TO THE GOOD LIFE - William Irvine 🥇

  23. TRANSITIONS - William Bridges ✅

  24. THE IMPACT OF IDENTITY - Irina Nevzlin ✅

  25. EMERGING ADULTHOOD - Jeffrey Jensen Arnett ✅

  26. THE ROAD TO CHARACTER - David Brooks ✅

  27. AFTER VIRTUE - Alasdair MacIntyre ✅ (cross-ref E14)

  28. SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY - Richard M. Ryan & Edward L. Deci

  29. NOBLE PURPOSE - William Damon

  30. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND SELF-DETERMINATION - Edward L. Deci & Richard M. Ryan

  31. THE PATH TO PURPOSE - William Damon

  32. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO - Edward L. Deci

  33. FLOW: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  34. LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK - Parker J. Palmer

A5: Habits, Behavior & Self-Management (21 books)

  1. THE POWER OF HABIT - Charles Duhigg ✅

  2. ATOMIC HABITS - James Clear ✅

  3. TINY HABITS - BJ Fogg 🥇

  4. THE CRAVING MIND - Judson Brewer ✅

  5. IRRESISTIBLE - Adam Alter ✅

  6. SWITCH - Chip & Dan Heath ✅

  7. GOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS - Wendy Wood 🥇

  8. DIGITAL MINIMALISM - Cal Newport 🥇

  9. MASTERY - George Leonard ✅

  10. THE MARSHMALLOW TEST - Walter Mischel 🥇

  11. DEEP WORK - Cal Newport 🥇

  12. THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY - Ryan Holiday ✅

  13. THE POWER OF SELF-DISCIPLINE - Peter Hollins 🥇

  14. WILLPOWER - Roy Baumeister & John Tierney ✅

  15. MIND GYM - Gary Mack ✅

  16. INNER EXCELLENCE - Jim Murphy ✅

  17. THINKING BODY, DANCING MIND - Chungliang Al Huang & Jerry Lynch ✅

  18. DOPAMINE NATION - Anna Lembke 🥇

  19. THE MORAL CHILD - William Damon 🥇

  20. 10 TO 25: THE SCIENCE OF MOTIVATING YOUNG PEOPLE - David Yeager 🥇

  21. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW - Daniel Kahneman 🥇f A1)*

A6: Sports Psychology & Athletic Development (11 books)

  1. SPORT PSYCHOLOGY FOR YOUNG ATHLETES - Camilla Knight 🥇

  2. THE MINDFUL ATHLETE - George Mumford ✅

  3. THE CHAMPION'S MIND - Jim Afremow 🥇

  4. LETTERS TO A YOUNG ATHLETE - Chris Bosh ✅

  5. THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS - W. Timothy Gallwey ✅

  6. RELENTLESS: FROM GOOD TO GREAT TO UNSTOPPABLE - Tim S. Grover ✅

  7. PEAK PERFORMANCE - Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness

  8. THE ONLY WAY TO WIN - Jim Loehr 🥇

  9. DO HARD THINGS - Steve Magness ✅

  10. ENDURE - Alex Hutchinson 🥇

  11. WITH WINNING IN MIND - Lanny Bassham ✅

DOMAIN B: THINKING & REASONING

B1: Logic & Rationality (29 books)

  1. THE SCOUT MINDSET - Julia Galef ✅

  2. CRITICAL THINKING - Richard Paul & Linda Elder ✅

  3. BEING LOGICAL - D.Q. McInerny ✅

  4. THINK SMARTER - Michael Kallet ✅

  5. SUPER THINKING - Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann ✅

  6. RATIONALITY - Steven Pinker 🥇

  7. THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE - Steven Pinker 🥇

  8. THE SOCRATIC METHOD - Ward Farnsworth ✅

  9. CRIMES AGAINST LOGIC - Jamie Whyte ✅

  10. THE CRAFT OF ARGUMENT - Joseph Williams & Gregory Colomb ✅

  11. CRITICAL THINKING & SOCRATIC QUESTIONING MASTERY - Thinknetic ✅

  12. SOCRATIC LOGIC - Peter Kreeft ✅

  13. WHAT INTELLIGENCE TESTS MISS - Keith E. Stanovich 🥇

  14. THE RATIONALITY QUOTIENT - Keith E. Stanovich 🥇

  15. THE ART OF LOGIC IN AN ILLOGICAL WORLD - Eugenia Cheng 🥇

  16. THE TYRANNY OF METRICS - Jerry Z. Muller 🥇

  17. EXPERT POLITICAL JUDGMENT - Philip E. Tetlock

  18. THE ENIGMA OF REASON - Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber 🥇

  19. THINKING IN EDUCATION (2nd Edition) - Matthew Lipman

  20. PHILOSOPHY GOES TO SCHOOL - Matthew Lipman

  21. PHILOSOPHY AND THE YOUNG CHILD - Gareth Matthews

  22. RATIONALITY AND THE REFLECTIVE MIND - Keith E. Stanovich

  23. MAKING THINKING VISIBLE - Ron Ritchhart et al.

  24. CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING - Ron Ritchhart 🥇

  25. THE POWER OF MAKING THINKING VISIBLE - Ron Ritchhart & Mark Church 🥇

  26. VISIBLE LEARNERS - Mara Krechevsky et al. 🥇

  27. DEWEY: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE - David L. Hildebrand ✅

  28. A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE STUDYING AND LEARNING - Regan A.R. Gurung 🥇

  29. REASONS AND PERSONS - Derek Parfit 🥇

B2: Truth, Evidence & Critical Thinking (21 books)

  1. THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE - Jonathan Rauch ✅

  2. A FIELD GUIDE TO LIES - Daniel Levitin ✅

  3. THE DATA DETECTIVE - Tim Harford ✅

  4. THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE - Tom Nichols ✅

  5. THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD - Carl Sagan 🥇

  6. BLACK BOX THINKING - Matthew Syed ✅

  7. THE SOCRATIC METHOD - Ward Farnsworth ✅ (cross-ref B1)

  8. THE INVISIBLE GORILLA - Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons ✅

  9. FACTFULNESS - Hans Rosling 🥇

  10. CALLING BULLSHIT - Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West 🥇

  11. THIRD MILLENNIUM THINKING - Saul Perlmutter et al. 🥇

  12. MISBELIEF - Dan Ariely ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  13. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS - Thomas Kuhn 🥇

  14. HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS - Darrell Huff ✅

  15. JUDGMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY - Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic & Amos Tversky 🥇

  16. STATISTICS DONE WRONG - Alex Reinhart 🥇

  17. COSMOS - Carl Sagan 🥇

  18. WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS - Michael Shermer ✅

  19. BAD SCIENCE - Ben Goldacre 🥇

  20. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? - Paul A. Offit 🥇

  21. THE ENIGMA OF REASON - Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber 🥇f B1)*

B3: Language & Cognition (11 books)

  1. METAPHORS WE LIVE BY - George Lakoff & Mark Johnson 🥇

  2. THE STUFF OF THOUGHT - Steven Pinker 🥇

  3. WORDS AND RULES - Steven Pinker 🥇

  4. THE INFLUENCING MACHINE - Brooke Gladstone ✅

  5. TRUE OR FALSE - Cindy L. Otis ✅

  6. VERIFIED - Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg

  7. BECAUSE INTERNET - Gretchen McCulloch ✅

  8. THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS - Guy Deutscher 🥇

  9. THE POWER OF BABEL & WORDS ON THE MOVE - John McWhorter 🥇

  10. HOW LANGUAGE WORKS & LANGUAGE PLAY - David Crystal 🥇

  11. DON'T SLEEP, THERE ARE SNAKES - Daniel L. Everett 🥇

B4: Probability & Uncertainty (15 books)

  1. THE BLACK SWAN - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ✅

  2. ANTIFRAGILE - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 🥇

  3. SKIN IN THE GAME - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ✅

  4. THINKING IN BETS - Annie Duke ✅

  5. HOW TO DECIDE - Annie Duke ✅

  6. HOW NOT TO BE WRONG - Jordan Ellenberg ✅

  7. THE DRUNKARD'S WALK - Leonard Mlodinow 🥇

  8. SUPERFORECASTING - Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner 🥇

  9. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 🥇

  10. THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE - Nate Silver ✅

  11. THE UPSIDE OF UNCERTAINTY - Nathan Furr ✅

  12. THE ART OF STATISTICS - David Spiegelhalter 🥇

  13. RADICAL UNCERTAINTY - John Kay & Mervyn King 🥇

  14. THE THEORY THAT WOULD NOT DIE - Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ✅

  15. NUDGE - Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

B5: Decision Frameworks (13 books)

  1. DECISIVE - Chip & Dan Heath ✅

  2. NUDGE - Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein 🥇

  3. ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths ✅

  4. THE OPPOSABLE MIND - Roger Martin ✅

  5. NOISE - Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein 🥇

  6. GOOD STRATEGY, BAD STRATEGY - Richard Rumelt ✅

  7. FARSIGHTED - Steven Johnson ✅

  8. THINK LIKE A FREAK - Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt ✅

  9. PLAYING TO WIN - Roger Martin & A.G. Lafley ✅

  10. SIX THINKING HATS - Edward de Bono ✅

  11. FACILITATOR'S GUIDE TO PARTICIPATORY DECISION-MAKING - Sam Kaner ✅

  12. HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES - Rushworth Kidder ✅

  13. THINKING IN TIME - Richard Neustadt & Ernest May ✅

B6: Systems Thinking & Complexity (21 books)

  1. THINKING IN SYSTEMS - Donella Meadows 🥇

  2. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE - Peter Senge 🥇

  3. SYSTEMS THINKING MADE SIMPLE - Derek Cabrera & Laura Cabrera ✅

  4. THE BOOK OF WHY - Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie 🥇

  5. ANTIFRAGILE - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 🥇f B4)*

  6. THE SYSTEMS THINKING PLAYBOOK - Linda Booth Sweeney & Dennis Meadows 🥇

  7. COMPLEXITY - M. Mitchell Waldrop ✅

  8. CHAOS - James Gleick 🥇

  9. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK - Peter Senge et al. 🥇

  10. EMERGENCE - Steven Johnson ✅

  11. SCALE - Geoffrey West 🥇

  12. THE SYSTEMS VIEW OF LIFE - Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi ✅

  13. UPSTREAM - Dan Heath ✅

  14. THE MODEL THINKER - Scott Page ✅

  15. REINVENTING THE SACRED - Stuart Kauffman ✅

  16. AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL SYSTEMS THINKING - Gerald M. Weinberg 🥇

  17. HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS - Vaclav Smil 🥇

  18. SYSTEMS THINKING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE - David Peter Stroh ✅

  19. OVERLOADED AND UNDERPREPARED - Denise Pope et al. 🥇

  20. DOING SCHOOL - Denise Pope

  21. NEVER ENOUGH - Jennifer Breheny Wallace ✅

B7: Creativity, Learning & Expertise (57 books)

  1. FLOW - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 🥇

  2. RANGE - David Epstein ✅

  3. PEAK - Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool 🥇

  4. HIDDEN POTENTIAL - Adam Grant 🥇

  5. OUTLIERS - Malcolm Gladwell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  6. THE SECRET OF OUR SUCCESS - Joseph Henrich 🥇

  7. MAKE IT STICK - Peter Brown et al. 🥇

  8. THE ACCIDENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER - Cammy Bean ✅

  9. A WHOLE NEW MIND - Daniel Pink ✅

  10. THE RUNAWAY SPECIES - David Eagleman & Anthony Brandt ✅

  11. CHANGE BY DESIGN - Tim Brown ✅

  12. THINK AGAIN - Adam Grant 🥇

  13. A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION - Warren Berger ✅

  14. CREATIVE CONFIDENCE - Tom & David Kelley ✅

  15. SITUATED LEARNING - Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger 🥇

  16. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - Etienne Wenger ✅

  17. WHY: WHAT MAKES US CURIOUS - Mario Livio ✅

  18. BOUNCE - Matthew Syed ✅

  19. CURIOUS? - Todd Kashdan ✅

  20. OUT OF OUR MINDS - Ken Robinson 🥇

  21. ORIGINALS - Adam Grant 🥇

  22. THE BOOK OF BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS - Warren Berger ✅

  23. IMAGINE - Jonah Lehrer ⚠️ [AUTHOR DISGRACED - fabrication]

  24. THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US - David Shenk ✅

  25. WIRED TO CREATE - Scott Barry Kaufman & Carolyn Gregoire 🥇

  26. THE 5 ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE THINKING - Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird 🥇

  27. TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO LEARN - Saundra Yancy McGuire 🥇

  28. THE BIG BANG OF NUMBERS - Manil Suri 🥇

  29. CREATIVITY - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 🥇

  30. WONDERWORKS - Angus Fletcher 🥇

  31. ULTRALEARNING - Scott H. Young ✅

  32. STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 - Tom Rath ✅

  33. TED TALKS - Chris Anderson ✅

  34. DESIGN THINKING PLAYBOOK - Michael Lewrick et al.

  35. DESIGN THINKING TOOLBOX - Michael Lewrick et al.

  36. LOONSHOTS - Safi Bahcall 🥇

  37. THE CREATIVITY BOOK - Eric Maisel

  38. STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST - Austin Kleon

  39. THE ARTIST'S WAY - Julia Cameron

  40. THE ELEMENT - Ken Robinson

  41. PLAY - Stuart Brown

  42. PLAYFUL PARENTING - Lawrence J. Cohen

  43. THE ART OF GAME DESIGN - Jesse Schell 🥇

  44. FOUR-DIMENSIONAL EDUCATION - Charles Fadel et al.

  45. EDUCATION FOR THE AGE OF AI - Charles Fadel ✅

  46. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION - Charles Fadel ✅

  47. THE MISSING PIECE - Tom Ravenscroft ✅

  48. FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES - James P. Carse ✅

  49. PLAY ANYTHING - Ian Bogost

  50. REALITY IS BROKEN - Jane McGonigal

  51. HOMO LUDENS - Johan Huizinga

  52. FREE TO LEARN - Peter Gray 🥇

  53. THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY - Brian Sutton-Smith 🥇

  54. MAN, PLAY AND GAMES - Roger Caillois 🥇

  55. EINSTEIN NEVER USED FLASHCARDS / BECOMING BRILLIANT - Kathy Hirsh-Pasek et al. 🥇

  56. FREE-RANGE KIDS - Lenore Skenazy

  57. THE ART OF CURIOSITY - Gabrielle Dolan (verify) 🥇

DOMAIN C: COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS

C1: Communication & Influence (30 books)

  1. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS - Douglas Stone et al. ✅

  2. I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY - Mónica Guzmán ✅

  3. INFLUENCE - Robert Cialdini 🥇

  4. HOW MINDS CHANGE - David McRaney ✅

  5. SUPERCOMMUNICATORS - Charles Duhigg ✅

  6. CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS - Patterson et al. ✅

  7. GETTING TO YES - Roger Fisher & William Ury ✅

  8. NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION - Marshall Rosenberg ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  9. BEYOND REASON - Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro ✅

  10. GIVE AND TAKE - Adam Grant 🥇

  11. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE - Dale Carnegie ✅

  12. THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK - Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen ✅

  13. WORDS THAT CHANGE MINDS - Shelle Rose Charvet ✅

  14. TALK LIKE TED - Carmine Gallo ✅

  15. THE INFLUENTIAL MIND - Tali Sharot ✅

  16. WHY WON'T YOU APOLOGIZE? - Harriet Lerner ✅

  17. RECLAIMING CONVERSATION - Sherry Turkle 🥇

  18. ON DIALOGUE - David Bohm ✅

  19. THE STORYTELLER'S SECRET - Carmine Gallo ✅

  20. THANK YOU FOR ARGUING - Jay Heinrichs ✅

  21. YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND - Deborah Tannen

  22. THE CULTURE MAP - Erin Meyer (also in C3)

  23. ALCHEMY - Rory Sutherland

  24. EMILY POST'S ETIQUETTE (19TH EDITION) - Lizzie Post & Daniel Post Senning

  25. FREAKONOMICS - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

  26. HOW TO KNOW A PERSON - David Brooks

  27. HOW TO TALK TO ANYONE - Leil Lowndes

  28. A MINDFUL APPROACH TO NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION - Oren Jay Sofer

  29. THE CAPTIVE PUBLIC - Benjamin Ginsberg

  30. INFLUENCE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION - Robert B. Cialdini (duplicate)

C2: Relationships & Social Skills (20 books)

  1. THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING MARRIAGE WORK - John Gottman 🥇

  2. HOW TO KNOW A PERSON - David Brooks ✅

  3. ATTACHED - Amir Levine & Rachel Heller 🥇

  4. HIGH CONFLICT - Amanda Ripley ✅

  5. HOLD ME TIGHT - Sue Johnson 🥇

  6. THE SCIENCE OF TRUST - John Gottman 🥇

  7. MINDWISE - Nicholas Epley ✅

  8. MAMA'S LAST HUG - Frans de Waal 🥇

  9. THE SOCIAL LEAP - William von Hippel ✅

  10. EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL - Susan Forward ✅

  11. THE FRIENDSHIP CURE - Kate Leaver ✅

  12. BELONGING - Geoffrey Cohen ✅

  13. ALL ABOUT LOVE - bell hooks 🥇

  14. THE WILL TO CHANGE - bell hooks

  15. THE SCIENCE OF MAKING FRIENDS - Elizabeth Laugeson

  16. THE LIKE SWITCH - Jack Schafer & Marvin Karlins

  17. TOGETHER - Vivek H. Murthy

  18. YOU'RE NOT LISTENING - Kate Murphy

  19. WHY WILL NO ONE PLAY WITH ME? - Caroline Maguire

  20. FRIENTIMACY - Shasta Nelson

C3: Teams & Collaboration (18 books)

  1. THE CULTURE CODE - Daniel Coyle ✅

  2. THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM - Patrick Lencioni ✅

  3. COLLECTIVE GENIUS - Linda Hill et al. ✅

  4. YES, AND - Kelly Leonard & Tom Yorton ✅

  5. THE SKILLED FACILITATOR - Roger Schwarz ✅

  6. CO-ACTIVE COACHING - Henry Kimsey-House et al. ✅

  7. REBEL IDEAS - Matthew Syed ✅

  8. SCRUM - Jeff Sutherland ✅

  9. HUMBLE INQUIRY - Edgar H. Schein

  10. SMARTER FASTER BETTER - Charles Duhigg

  11. THE CULTURE MAP - Erin Meyer (also in C1)

  12. THE ART OF COMMUNITY - Charles Vogl 🥇

  13. THE WISDOM OF TEAMS - Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith

  14. GROUP GENIUS - Keith Sawyer

  15. EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK - Michael A. West

  16. COLLABORATION - Morten T. Hansen

  17. THE FEARLESS ORGANIZATION - Amy C. Edmondson

  18. RIGHT KIND OF WRONG - Amy C. Edmondson

C4: Community & Belonging (28 books)

  1. THE CULTURE CODE - Daniel Coyle ✅ (cross-ref C3)

  2. HUMANKIND - Rutger Bregman ✅

  3. BLUEPRINT - Nicholas Christakis 🥇

  4. THE SOCIAL ANIMAL - David Brooks ✅ (cross-ref A1)

  5. THE SOCIAL BRAIN - Matthew Lieberman ✅

  6. SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE - Daniel Goleman ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  7. THE ART OF COMMUNITY - Charles Vogl 🥇

  8. THE COMMON INGROUP IDENTITY MODEL - Samuel Gaertner & John Dovidio ✅

  9. BOWLING ALONE - Robert Putnam 🥇

  10. TRIBE - Sebastian Junger ✅

  11. THE ART OF GATHERING - Priya Parker 🥇

  12. BETTER TOGETHER - Robert Putnam & Lewis Feldstein 🥇

  13. ATTACHED - Amir Levine & Rachel Heller 🥇f C2)*

  14. CULTIVATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - Etienne Wenger et al. ✅

  15. THE DIFFERENT DRUM - M. Scott Peck ✅

  16. GOVERNING THE COMMONS - Elinor Ostrom 🥇

  17. CONNECTED - Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler 🥇

  18. TRUST - Francis Fukuyama ✅

  19. THE GRAMMAR OF SOCIETY - Cristina Bicchieri ✅

  20. A COOPERATIVE SPECIES - Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis ✅

  21. THE TRUE BELIEVER - Eric Hoffer ✅

  22. THE VANISHING NEIGHBOR - Marc Dunkelman ✅

  23. UBUNTU - Michael Battle ✅

  24. THE VILLAGE EFFECT - Susan Pinker

  25. TOGETHER: THE HEALING POWER OF HUMAN CONNECTION - Vivek H. Murthy

  26. OUR KIDS: THE AMERICAN DREAM IN CRISIS - Robert D. Putnam

  27. THE UPSWING - Robert D. Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett

  28. TRIBE: ON HOMECOMING AND BELONGING - Sebastian Junger (duplicate)

C5: Conflict Resolution & Mediation (20 books)

  1. THE ANATOMY OF PEACE - Arbinger Institute ✅

  2. THE THIRD SIDE - William Ury ✅

  3. THE LITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - Howard Zehr ✅

  4. GETTING PAST NO - William Ury ✅

  5. NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE - Chris Voss ✅

  6. COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY - Adam Kahane ✅

  7. NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION - Marshall Rosenberg ⚠️ (cross-ref C1)

  8. CIRCLE FORWARD - Carolyn Boyes-Watson & Kay Pranis

  9. IMPLEMENTING RESTORATIVE PRACTICE IN SCHOOLS - Margaret Thorsborne & Peta Blood

  10. THE LITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN EDUCATION - Katherine Evans & Dorothy Vaandering

  11. WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE - Bettina L. Love

  12. BUILDING A TRAUMA-INFORMED RESTORATIVE SCHOOL - Joe Brummer & Micah Jacobson

  13. BEYOND REASON - Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro

  14. NEGOTIATING THE NONNEGOTIABLE - Daniel Shapiro

  15. THE MEDIATION PROCESS - Christopher W. Moore

  16. THE LITTLE BOOK OF RACE AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - Fania E. Davis

  17. COLORIZING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - Edward C. Valandra (ed.)

  18. JUSTICE ON BOTH SIDES - Maisha T. Winn

  19. CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE - David R. Karp

  20. PEACEMAKING CIRCLES AND URBAN YOUTH - Carolyn Boyes-Watson

DOMAIN D: LIFE SKILLS & WELLBEING

D1: Physical Health: Body, Sleep, Nutrition (31 books)

  1. WHY WE SLEEP - Matthew Walker 🥇 ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  2. SPARK - John Ratey ✅

  3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE - Bessel van der Kolk 🥇

  4. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD - Michael Pollan 🥇

  5. THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY - Daniel Lieberman 🥇

  6. EXERCISED - Daniel Lieberman 🥇

  7. BREATH - James Nestor ✅

  8. WHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERS - Robert Sapolsky 🥇

  9. BORN TO RUN - Christopher McDougall ✅

  10. THE BODY - Bill Bryson ✅

  11. CATCHING FIRE - Richard Wrangham 🥇

  12. THE SLEEP REVOLUTION - Arianna Huffington ✅

  13. THE DEEPEST WELL - Nadine Burke Harris 🥇

  14. CHILDHOOD DISRUPTED - Donna Jackson Nakazawa ✅

  15. TRAUMA STEWARDSHIP - Laura van Dernoot Lipsky ✅

  16. ADOLESCENT SLEEP PATTERNS - Mary A. Carskadon (ed.) 🥇

  17. THE SLEEP-DEPRIVED TEEN - Lisa L. Lewis ✅

  18. THE SLEEP SOLUTION - W. Chris Winter 🥇

  19. SALT SUGAR FAT - Michael Moss 🥇

  20. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA - Michael Pollan

  21. FOOD POLITICS - Marion Nestle 🥇

  22. FAST FOOD NATION - Eric Schlosser ✅

  23. SPOON-FED / FOOD FOR LIFE - Tim Spector

  24. ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE - Chris van Tulleken

  25. THE HUNGRY BRAIN - Stephan Guyenet 🥇

  26. THE BLUE ZONES - Dan Buettner ✅

  27. GUT - Giulia Enders

  28. FIRST BITE - Bee Wilson

  29. EAT, DRINK, AND BE HEALTHY - Walter C. Willett 🥇

  30. HOW TO EAT - Mark Bittman & David L. Katz 🥇

  31. THE CHINA STUDY - T. Colin Campbell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION - See B2 for critical analysis] ⚠️

D2: Safety & Risk Assessment (20 books)

  1. DEEP SURVIVAL - Laurence Gonzales ✅

  2. THE GIFT OF FEAR - Gavin de Becker ✅

  3. RISK SAVVY - Gerd Gigerenzer 🥇

  4. THE UNTHINKABLE - Amanda Ripley ✅

  5. COLLAPSE - Jared Diamond ✅

  6. PROTECTING THE GIFT - Gavin de Becker ✅

  7. THE SCIENCE OF FEAR - Daniel Gardner ✅

  8. HOW RISKY IS IT, REALLY? - David Ropeik ✅

  9. RISK: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION - Baruch Fischhoff

  10. FOOLPROOF - Sander van der Linden

  11. HOW TO STAY SMART IN A SMART WORLD - Gerd Gigerenzer

  12. MEDITATIONS ON VIOLENCE / FACING VIOLENCE - Rory Miller

  13. THE FEELING OF RISK - Paul Slovic (ed.)

  14. BEYOND FEAR - Bruce Schneier

  15. MANAGING THE UNEXPECTED (3rd Ed.) - Karl E. Weick & Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

  16. NORMAL ACCIDENTS - Charles Perrow

  17. HUMAN ERROR - James Reason

  18. THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN: LEARNING, REASONING, AND DECISION MAKING - Valerie F. Reyna et al. 🥇

  19. SAFETY-I AND SAFETY-II - Erik Hollnagel

  20. THE FIELD GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ERROR - Sidney Dekker

D3: Digital Citizenship & Safety (12 books)

  1. BEHIND THEIR SCREENS - Emily Weinstein & Carrie James 🥇

  2. GROWING UP IN PUBLIC - Devorah Heitner 🥇

  3. THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM - Shoshana Zuboff 🥇

  4. ALONE TOGETHER - Sherry Turkle 🥇

  5. TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS - Jaron Lanier 🥇

  6. THE ATTENTION MERCHANTS - Tim Wu 🥇

  7. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION - Jonathan Haidt 🥇

  8. DIGITAL MINIMALISM - Cal Newport

  9. HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE - Catherine Price ✅

  10. RECLAIMING CONVERSATION - Sherry Turkle

  11. ATTENTION SPAN - Gloria Mark

  12. SCREENWISE - Devorah Heitner 🥇

D4: Money & Personal Finance (6 books)

  1. CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Thomas Piketty 🥇

  2. MISBEHAVING - Richard H. Thaler (also in E9) 🥇

  3. THE SOUL OF MONEY - Lynne Twist ✅

  4. THE OPPOSITE OF SPOILED - Ron Lieber ✅

  5. GET A FINANCIAL LIFE - Beth Kobliner (also in D5) ✅

  6. IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE (3rd Ed.) - Robert J. Shiller

D5: Career Development & Life Design (19 books)

  1. DESIGNING YOUR LIFE - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

  2. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? FOR TEENS - Carol Christen

  3. THE DEFINING DECADE - Meg Jay 🥇

  4. ROAD TRIP NATION - Nathan Gebhard et al.

  5. HEARTLAND - Sarah Smarsh

  6. LIMBO - Alfred Lubrano

  7. MOVING UP WITHOUT LOSING YOUR WAY - Jennifer Morton 🥇

  8. THE PRIVILEGED POOR - Anthony Abraham Jack 🥇

  9. THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM - Rachel Gable

  10. POUND FOOLISH - Helaine Olen

  11. BROKE MILLENNIAL - Erin Lowry

  12. I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE RICH - Ramit Sethi ✅

  13. THE MOTLEY FOOL INVESTMENT GUIDE FOR TEENS - David & Tom Gardner ✅

  14. I WANT MORE PIZZA - Steve Burkholder ✅

  15. THE SIMPLE PATH TO WEALTH - JL Collins (also in E9) ✅

  16. JUST KEEP BUYING - Nick Maggiulli ✅

  17. MONEY: A USER'S GUIDE - Laura Whateley ✅

  18. MANAGE YOUR MONEY LIKE A GROWNUP - Sam Beckbessinger ✅

  19. GET A FINANCIAL LIFE - Beth Kobliner (also in D4) ✅

D6: Leadership & Getting Things Done (22 books)

  1. TEAMING - Amy Edmondson 🥇

  2. THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM - Patrick Lencioni ✅ (cross-ref C3)

  3. THE IDEAL TEAM PLAYER - Patrick Lencioni ✅

  4. TURN THE SHIP AROUND! - L. David Marquet ✅

  5. TEAM OF TEAMS - Stanley McChrystal ✅

  6. AN EVERYONE CULTURE - Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey 🥇

  7. SMARTER FASTER BETTER - Charles Duhigg ✅

  8. LEADERS EAT LAST - Simon Sinek ✅

  9. DARE TO LEAD - Brené Brown ✅

  10. GOOD TO GREAT - Jim Collins ✅

  11. BUILT TO LAST - Jim Collins & Jerry Porras ✅

  12. THE WISDOM OF TEAMS - Jon Katzenbach & Douglas Smith ✅

  13. THE CULTURE CODE - Daniel Coyle ✅ (cross-ref C3, C4)

  14. TRUST FACTOR - Paul Zak ✅

  15. GROUP DYNAMICS FOR TEAMS - Daniel Levi ✅

  16. THE EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE - Peter Drucker 🥇

  17. START WITH WHY - Simon Sinek ✅

  18. GREAT BY CHOICE - Jim Collins ✅

  19. SERVANT LEADERSHIP - Robert Greenleaf ✅

  20. LEADERSHIP ON THE LINE - Ronald Heifetz & Marty Linsky ✅

  21. RADICAL CANDOR - Kim Scott

  22. THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE - James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

D7: Executive Function & Planning (16 books)

  1. GETTING THINGS DONE - David Allen ✅

  2. THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO - Atul Gawande 🥇

  3. THE ONE THING - Gary Keller & Jay Papasan ✅

  4. WHEN - Daniel Pink ✅

  5. SPRINT - Jake Knapp ✅

  6. 168 HOURS - Laura Vanderkam ✅

  7. LIVING FORWARD - Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy ✅

  8. BUILDING A SECOND BRAIN - Tiago Forte ✅

  9. STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE - Terry Schmidt ✅

  10. SMART BUT SCATTERED TEENS - Richard Guare, Peg Dawson & Colin Guare

  11. EXECUTIVE SKILLS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - Peg Dawson & Richard Guare

  12. THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION GUIDEBOOK - Roberta Strosnider & Valerie Sharpe

  13. SUCCEED - Heidi Grant Halvorson

  14. NINE THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO DIFFERENTLY - Heidi Grant Halvorson

  15. MEASURE WHAT MATTERS - John Doerr

  16. THE 12 WEEK YEAR - Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington

D8: Execution & Productivity (13 books)

  1. THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO - Atul Gawande 🥇f D7)*

  2. THE 4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION - Chris McChesney et al. ✅

  3. MEASURE WHAT MATTERS - John Doerr ✅

  4. HIGH OUTPUT MANAGEMENT - Andy Grove ✅

  5. THE GOAL - Eliyahu Goldratt ✅

  6. MULTIPLIERS - Liz Wiseman ✅

  7. EMBEDDED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT - Dylan Wiliam 🥇

  8. THE EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE - Peter F. Drucker 🥇

  9. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE - Stephen R. Covey 🥇

  10. EAT THAT FROG! - Brian Tracy ✅

  11. THE WAR OF ART - Steven Pressfield ✅

  12. HOW TO TAKE SMART NOTES - Sönke Ahrens 🥇

  13. THE NOW HABIT - Neil Fiore 🥇

D9: Substance Use & Prevention (11 books)

  1. BRIEF STRATEGIC FAMILY THERAPY - José Szapocznik et al. 🥇

  2. FACING ADDICTION IN AMERICA - U.S. Surgeon General 🥇

  3. THE RECOVERY HANDBOOK - David Mee-Lee et al. ✅

  4. ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE (2nd Ed.) - Yifrah Kaminer & Ken C. Winters 🥇

  5. NEVER ENOUGH: THE NEUROSCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE OF ADDICTION - Judith Grisel 🥇

  6. HANDBOOK OF ADOLESCENT DRUG USE PREVENTION - Zili Sloboda et al. 🥇

  7. BEYOND ADDICTION - Jeffrey Foote et al. 🥇

  8. UNDOING DRUGS - Maia Szalavitz ✅

  9. CLINICAL MANUAL OF YOUTH ADDICTIVE DISORDERS - Yifrah Kaminer & Oscar G. Bukstein 🥇

  10. THE ADDICTION INOCULATION - Jessica Lahey ✅

  11. ADOLESCENTS, ALCOHOL, AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - John Schulenberg et al. 🥇

D10: Trauma, Grief & Recovery (23 books)

  1. TREATING TRAUMA AND TRAUMATIC GRIEF IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - Judith A. Cohen et al. 🥇

  2. THE COMPLEX PTSD WORKBOOK - Arielle Schwartz 🥇

  3. HELPING TEENS WHO CUT (2nd Ed.) - Michael Hollander 🥇

  4. TRAUMA-SENSITIVE SCHOOLS - Susan Craig ✅

  5. TREATING TRAUMATIC STRESS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - M. Blaustein & K. Kinniburgh 🥇

  6. HELPING TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN LEARN (Vols. 1 & 2) - Susan Cole et al. 🥇

  7. TEENS WHO HURT - Kenneth V. Hardy & Tracey A. Laszloffy 🥇

  8. COMPLEX PTSD: FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING - Pete Walker ✅

  9. MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS - Resmaa Menakem ✅

  10. THE BODY REMEMBERS - Babette Rothschild 🥇

  11. HEALING THE FRAGMENTED SELVES OF TRAUMA SURVIVORS - Janina Fisher 🥇

  12. THE GRIEVING TEEN - Helen Fitzgerald

  13. IT'S OK THAT YOU'RE NOT OK - Megan Devine (also in D11) ✅

  14. THE WILD EDGE OF SORROW - Francis Weller

  15. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR - Paul Kalanithi 🥇

  16. CRYING IN H MART - Michelle Zauner ✅

  17. GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS - Max Porter ✅

  18. THE GRIEVING BRAIN - Mary-Frances O'Connor 🥇

  19. THE OTHER SIDE OF SADNESS - George A. Bonanno 🥇

  20. GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY - Robert A. Neimeyer et al. 🥇

  21. FINDING MEANING: THE SIXTH STAGE OF GRIEF - David Kessler

  22. RESILIENT GRIEVING - Lucy Hone

  23. GRIEF WORKS - Julia Samuel

D11: Mental Health & Psychological Wellbeing (11 books)

  1. AN UNQUIET MIND - Kay Redfield Jamison 🥇

  2. FEELING GOOD - David D. Burns 🥇

  3. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE - Lori Gottlieb ✅

  4. REASONS TO STAY ALIVE - Matt Haig ✅

  5. THE NOONDAY DEMON - Andrew Solomon 🥇

  6. DARKNESS VISIBLE - William Styron ✅

  7. IT'S OK THAT YOU'RE NOT OK - Megan Devine (also in D10) ✅

  8. THE HAPPINESS TRAP - Russ Harris 🥇

  9. MIND OVER MOOD - Dennis Greenberger & Christine A. Padesky 🥇

  10. WHEN PANIC ATTACKS - David D. Burns 🥇

  11. THE DEPRESSION CURE - Stephen S. Ilardi 🥇

DOMAIN E: SOCIETY & SYSTEMS

E1: Human Nature & Evolution (40 books)

  1. BLUEPRINT - Nicholas Christakis 🥇

  2. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL - Jared Diamond ✅

  3. THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE - Steven Pinker 🥇f B1)*

  4. THE BLANK SLATE - Steven Pinker 🥇

  5. THE MORAL ANIMAL - Robert Wright ✅

  6. THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE - Jared Diamond ✅

  7. THE RATIONAL OPTIMIST - Matt Ridley ✅

  8. THE SPORTS GENE - David Epstein 🥇

  9. THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS - Huston Smith ✅

  10. ATHEISM FOR LENT - Peter Rollins ✅

  11. ORIGIN STORY - David Christian ✅

  12. THE SELFISH GENE - Richard Dawkins 🥇

  13. THE GOODNESS PARADOX - Richard Wrangham 🥇

  14. NONZERO - Robert Wright ✅

  15. DNA IS NOT DESTINY - Steven Heine ✅

  16. THE HUMAN ODYSSEY - Ian Tattersall ✅

  17. THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD - Joseph Henrich 🥇

  18. SAPIENS - Yuval Noah Harari ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  19. MISMATCH - Van Vugt & Giphart ✅

  20. LIFE AS WE MADE IT - Beth Shapiro

  21. EXERCISED - Daniel E. Lieberman (cross-ref D1)

  22. BEHAVE - Robert M. Sapolsky (cross-ref A1)

  23. GENESIS: THE DEEP ORIGIN OF SOCIETIES - Edward O. Wilson

  24. HUMANKIND: A HOPEFUL HISTORY - Rutger Bregman

  25. THE APE THAT UNDERSTOOD THE UNIVERSE - Steve Stewart-Williams

  26. THE RIGHTEOUS MIND - Jonathan Haidt (cross-ref A1)

  27. THE SECRET OF OUR SUCCESS - Joseph Henrich (cross-ref B7)

  28. THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH - Edward O. Wilson

  29. THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE - Matt Ridley

  30. A COOPERATIVE SPECIES - Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis

  31. BORN TO REBEL - Frank J. Sulloway

  32. CATCHING FIRE - Richard Wrangham (cross-ref D1)

  33. THE HUMAN SWARM - Mark W. Moffett

  34. THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION - Judith Rich Harris

  35. THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY - Daniel E. Lieberman (cross-ref D1)

  36. WHEN HUMANS NEARLY VANISHED - Donald R. Prothero

  37. HIERARCHY IN THE FOREST - Christopher Boehm

  38. THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING - David Graeber & David Wengrow

  39. NOT BY GENES ALONE - Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd

  40. THE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF HUMAN COGNITION - Michael Tomasello

E2: Adolescent Psychology & Development (23 books)

  1. THE TEENAGE BRAIN - Frances Jensen 🥇

  2. BRAINSTORM - Daniel Siegel 🥇

  3. AGE OF OPPORTUNITY - Laurence Steinberg 🥇

  4. INVENTING OURSELVES - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 🥇

  5. UNTANGLED - Lisa Damour 🥇

  6. HOLD ON TO YOUR KIDS - Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté 🥇

  7. THE BOY CRISIS - Warren Farrell & John Gray ✅

  8. THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION - Judith Rich Harris ✅

  9. GALEN'S PROPHECY - Jerome Kagan ✅

  10. THE LIMITS OF FAMILY INFLUENCE - David C. Rowe ✅

  11. GIRLS & SEX - Peggy Orenstein (also in E4)

  12. BEAUTIFUL BOY - David Sheff

  13. iGEN - Jean M. Twenge (also in E6)

  14. UNDER PRESSURE - Lisa Damour

  15. HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT - Julie Lythcott-Haims

  16. THE GIFT OF FAILURE - Jessica Lahey

  17. THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE - Wendy Mogel

  18. MASTERMINDS AND WINGMEN - Rosalind Wiseman

  19. REVIVING OPHELIA - Mary Pipher

  20. THE PRICE OF PRIVILEGE - Madeline Levine

  21. YOU AND YOUR ADULT CHILD - Laurence Steinberg

  22. THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTER - Alison Gopnik

  23. THE PHILOSOPHICAL BABY - Alison Gopnik

E3: Family Systems & Parenting (14 books)

  1. HOW TO TALK SO KIDS WILL LISTEN - Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

  2. NO-DRAMA DISCIPLINE - Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

  3. PARENTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT - Daniel J. Siegel & Mary Hartzell

  4. THE BOTTOM LINE FOR BABY - Tina Payne Bryson

  5. THE CONSCIOUS PARENT - Shefali Tsabary

  6. THE NEW PEOPLEMAKING - Virginia Satir

  7. THE POWER OF SHOWING UP - Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson 🥇

  8. THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD - Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson 🥇

  9. THE YES BRAIN - Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

  10. RAISING AN EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT CHILD - John Gottman

  11. THE SCIENCE OF COUPLES AND FAMILY THERAPY - John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman

  12. ATTACHMENT THEORY IN PRACTICE - Susan M. Johnson

  13. BUILDING THE BONDS OF ATTACHMENT - Daniel A. Hughes

  14. THE ECOLOGY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT - Urie Bronfenbrenner

E4: Sexuality & Gender Identity Education (15 books)

  1. COME AS YOU ARE - Emily Nagoski

  2. S.E.X. - Heather Corinna

  3. SEXUAL FLUIDITY - Lisa M. Diamond

  4. GIRLS & SEX - Peggy Orenstein (also in E2)

  5. THE GENDER CREATIVE CHILD - Diane Ehrensaft

  6. THE TRANSGENDER TEEN - Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney

  7. THIS BOOK IS GAY - Juno Dawson

  8. TRANSGENDER CHILDREN AND YOUTH - Elijah C. Nealy

  9. A QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - Michael Bronski

  10. STAND BY ME - Peter Scales

  11. HANDBOOK OF YOUTH MENTORING (2ND EDITION) - David L. DuBois & Michael J. Karcher (eds.)

  12. ALL KIDS ARE OUR KIDS (2ND EDITION) - Peter L. Benson

  13. SPARKS - Peter L. Benson

  14. THE GOOD TEEN - Richard M. Lerner

  15. GENDER TROUBLE - Judith Butler

E5: Pedagogy & Education Theory (42 books)

  1. THE SECRET OF OUR SUCCESS - Joseph Henrich 🥇f B7)*

  2. HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED - Paul Tough ✅

  3. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION - Jonathan Haidt 🥇

  4. MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED - Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith 🥇

  5. THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES - Joseph Campbell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  6. PLAY - Stuart Brown 🥇

  7. FREE TO LEARN - Peter Gray 🥇

  8. BUILDING THINKING CLASSROOMS IN MATHEMATICS - Peter Liljedahl ✅

  9. CREATING INNOVATORS - Tony Wagner 🥇

  10. THE KNOWLEDGE GAP - Natalie Wexler ✅

  11. THE SELF-DRIVEN CHILD - William Stixrud & Ned Johnson ✅

  12. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION - John Dewey 🥇

  13. EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION - John Dewey 🥇

  14. HOW PEOPLE LEARN - National Research Council ✅

  15. PUNISHED BY REWARDS - Alfie Kohn ✅

  16. MINDSTORMS - Seymour Papert 🥇

  17. DESIGN-BASED IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH - Penuel et al. ✅

  18. THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTER - Alison Gopnik 🥇

  19. THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD - Amanda Ripley ✅

  20. PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED - Paulo Freire 🥇

  21. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS - Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel ✅

  22. THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND - Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff 🥇

  23. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LITTLE - Erika Christakis ✅

  24. WHY FASCISTS FEAR TEACHERS - William Hare ✅

  25. LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS - Richard Louv ✅

  26. INSTRUCTIONAL STORY DESIGN - Rance Greene ✅

  27. EDUCATED - Tara Westover ✅

  28. WHISTLING VIVALDI - Claude Steele 🥇

  29. READY FOR WHAT? - Heather Hiles ✅

  30. THE HUMAN ODYSSEY - Ian Tattersall ✅ (cross-ref E1)

  31. VISIBLE LEARNING - John Hattie 🥇

  32. HOW CHILDREN FAIL - John Holt ✅

  33. HOW CHILDREN LEARN - John Holt ✅

  34. TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS - bell hooks 🥇

  35. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE BRAIN - Zaretta Hammond ✅

  36. THE COURAGE TO TEACH - Parker J. Palmer 🥇

  37. EDUCATING FOR CHARACTER - Thomas Lickona 🥇

  38. PRIMED FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION - Marvin W. Berkowitz 🥇

  39. DILEMMAS OF EDUCATIONAL ETHICS - Meira Levinson & Jacob Fay 🥇

  40. TEACHING CHARACTER THROUGH STORIES - Vigen Guroian (verify) 🥇

  41. THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER IN EDUCATION - Various 🥇

  42. TEACHING CHARACTER AND VIRTUE IN SCHOOLS - Tom Harrison & David Walker 🥇

E6: The Contemporary Moment (15 books)

  1. THE FOURTH TURNING - William Strauss & Neil Howe ✅

  2. CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Thomas Piketty 🥇

  3. DEATHS OF DESPAIR AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM - Anne Case & Angus Deaton 🥇

  4. CHASING THE SCREAM - Johann Hari ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  5. LOST CONNECTIONS - Johann Hari ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  6. ENLIGHTENMENT NOW - Steven Pinker 🥇

  7. THE IDENTITY TRAP - Yascha Mounk ⚠️ [SEE VETTING NOTES]

  8. THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM - Shoshana Zuboff 🥇

  9. THE FILTER BUBBLE - Eli Pariser

  10. iGEN - Jean M. Twenge (also in E2)

  11. WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION - Cathy O'Neil

  12. THE INNER LEVEL - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

  13. THE SPIRIT LEVEL - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

  14. ALONE TOGETHER - Sherry Turkle 🥇

  15. THE OVERACHIEVERS - Alexandra Robbins

E7: Technology, Innovation & Future (34 books)

  1. 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Yuval Noah Harari ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  2. NEXUS - Yuval Noah Harari ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  3. THE ALIGNMENT PROBLEM - Brian Christian ✅

  4. THE COMING WAVE - Mustafa Suleyman ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  5. THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS - Christopher Summerfield 🥇

  6. TWENTY-ONE TRENDS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Gary Marx ✅

  7. INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE - Alec Ross ✅

  8. THE LEAN STARTUP - Eric Ries ✅

  9. TECHNOPOLY - Neil Postman ✅

  10. HOMO DEUS - Yuval Noah Harari ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  11. THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE - David Wootton ✅

  12. BIG DATA - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier ✅

  13. THE ATOMIC HUMAN - Neil Lawrence ✅

  14. FUTURE SHOCK - Alvin Toffler ✅

  15. THE INFORMATION - James Gleick 🥇

  16. SUPERINTELLIGENCE - Nick Bostrom ✅

  17. EMPIRE OF AI - Karen Hao ✅

  18. MAKE, THINK, IMAGINE - John Browne ✅

  19. HOW TO DO NOTHING - Jenny Odell ✅

  20. CO-INTELLIGENCE - Ethan Mollick 🥇

  21. IT'S COMPLICATED - danah boyd 🥇

  22. LIFE 3.0 - Max Tegmark 🥇

  23. HUMAN COMPATIBLE - Stuart Russell 🥇

  24. AI: A GUIDE FOR THINKING HUMANS - Melanie Mitchell 🥇

  25. THE AI MIRROR - Shannon Vallor 🥇

  26. VIRAL JUSTICE - Ruha Benjamin 🥇

  27. ATLAS OF AI - Kate Crawford 🥇

  28. UNMASKING AI - Joy Buolamwini

  29. AI ETHICS - Mark Coeckelbergh 🥇

  30. RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY - Ruha Benjamin 🥇

  31. THE UNDOING PROJECT - Michael Lewis ✅

  32. ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION - Safiya Umoja Noble 🥇

  33. AUTOMATING INEQUALITY - Virginia Eubanks

  34. MORE THAN A GLITCH - Meredith Broussard 🥇

E8: Democracy, Citizenship & Institutions (65 books)

  1. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA - Alexis de Tocqueville ✅

  2. A SECULAR AGE - Charles Taylor ✅

  3. MORAL TRIBES - Joshua Greene ✅

  4. THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE - Jonathan Rauch ✅ (cross-ref B2)

  5. HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt 🥇

  6. TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY - Anne Applebaum ✅

  7. THE CIVIC CULTURE - Gabriel Almond & Sidney Verba ✅

  8. US VS. THEM - Ian Bremmer ✅

  9. ON TYRANNY - Timothy Snyder ✅

  10. WHY WE'RE POLARIZED - Ezra Klein ✅

  11. A FREE PEOPLE'S SUICIDE - Os Guinness ✅

  12. BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION - Srdja Popovic ✅

  13. THE ASSAULT ON REASON - Al Gore ✅

  14. IF YOU CAN KEEP IT - Eric Metaxas ✅

  15. OPEN DEMOCRACY - Hélène Landemore ✅

  16. TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT - John Locke ✅

  17. A THEORY OF JUSTICE - John Rawls 🥇

  18. CASTE - Isabel Wilkerson 🥇

  19. SEEING LIKE A STATE - James C. Scott ✅

  20. THE SPIRIT LEVEL - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett ✅

  21. TWITTER AND TEAR GAS - Zeynep Tufekci 🥇

  22. WHAT WE OWE TO EACH OTHER - Minouche Shafik ✅

  23. THE FEDERALIST PAPERS - Hamilton, Madison, Jay ✅

  24. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ✅

  25. COMMON SENSE - Thomas Paine ✅

  26. THE MERITOCRACY TRAP - Daniel Markovits ✅

  27. WHY LIBERALISM FAILED - Patrick Deneen ✅

  28. MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK - Robert Putnam 🥇

  29. FIGHT FOR LIBERTY - David L. Boren ✅

  30. THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT MEDIA AND POLITICS - Various ✅

  31. STRONGMEN - Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  32. THE REPUBLIC - Plato

  33. CREATING CAPABILITIES - Martha C. Nussbaum

  34. NOT FOR PROFIT - Martha C. Nussbaum

  35. PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY - Arend Lijphart

  36. UNINFORMED - Arthur Lupia

  37. ATTACK FROM WITHIN - Barbara McQuade

  38. THE CAPTIVE PUBLIC - Benjamin Ginsberg

  39. SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY - Barrington Moore Jr.

  40. WHO RULES THE WORLD - Noam Chomsky

  41. FOUNDING BROTHERS - Joseph J. Ellis

  42. 1776 - David McCullough

  43. MODERNIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE AND DEMOCRACY - Ronald Inglehart & Christian Welzel

  44. STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND - Arlie Russell Hochschild

  45. TEAM OF RIVALS - Doris Kearns Goodwin

  46. WHAT KIND OF CITIZEN? - Joel Westheimer

  47. STRONG DEMOCRACY - Benjamin R. Barber

  48. MAKING CIVICS COUNT - David E. Campbell et al. (eds.)

  49. DEVELOPING DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER IN THE YOUNG - Roger Soder et al. (eds.)

  50. CONTROVERSY IN THE CLASSROOM - Diana E. Hess

  51. THE POLITICAL CLASSROOM - Diana E. Hess & Paula McAvoy

  52. NO CITIZEN LEFT BEHIND - Meira Levinson

  53. DEMOCRATIC DISCORD IN SCHOOLS - Meira Levinson & Jacob Fay (eds.)

  54. WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR - Peter Levine ✅

  55. WHAT SHOULD WE DO? A THEORY OF CIVIC LIFE - Peter Levine

  56. OUR DECLARATION - Danielle Allen

  57. JUSTICE BY MEANS OF DEMOCRACY - Danielle Allen

  58. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME - Ta-Nehisi Coates

  59. EVICTED - Matthew Desmond

  60. THE NEW JIM CROW - Michelle Alexander

  61. THE SUM OF US - Heather McGhee

  62. WINNERS TAKE ALL - Anand Giridharadas

  63. DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM - Amartya Sen

  64. THE IDEA OF JUSTICE - Amartya Sen

  65. ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA - Robert Nozick

E9: Economic Systems & Understanding (8 books)

  1. CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY - Thomas Piketty 🥇

  2. GOOD ECONOMICS FOR HARD TIMES - Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo 🥇

  3. MISBEHAVING - Richard H. Thaler (also in D4) 🥇

  4. THE ECONOMY - The CORE Team 🥇

  5. THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST - Elizabeth Popp Berman 🥇

  6. EVICTED - Matthew Desmond

  7. HOW TO MONEY - Jean Chatzky & Kathryn Tuggle ✅

  8. THE SIMPLE PATH TO WEALTH - JL Collins (also in D5) ✅

E10: Movements & Activism (13 books)

  1. BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION - Srdja Popovic & Matthew Miller ✅

  2. EMERGENT STRATEGY - adrienne maree brown ✅

  3. HOPE IN THE DARK - Rebecca Solnit ✅

  4. THIS IS AN UPRISING - Mark Engler & Paul Engler ✅

  5. DOING DEMOCRACY - Bill Moyer et al.

  6. FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE - Angela Y. Davis 🥇

  7. TWITTER AND TEAR GAS - Zeynep Tufekci 🥇

  8. DOING GOOD BETTER - William MacAskill 🥇

  9. BEING HEUMANN - Judith Heumann

  10. CARE WORK - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  11. DEMYSTIFYING DISABILITY - Emily Ladau

  12. HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD - David Bornstein ✅

  13. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW - David Bornstein & Susan Davis ✅

E11: The Planetary Context (38 books)

  1. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION - Elizabeth Kolbert 🥇

  2. SILENT SPRING - Rachel Carson 🥇

  3. THE SEA AROUND US - Rachel Carson 🥇

  4. THE LIMITS TO GROWTH - Donella Meadows et al. 🥇

  5. DIRT - David Montgomery ✅

  6. THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH - David Wallace-Wells ✅

  7. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS - Robin Wall Kimmerer 🥇

  8. NOT THE END OF THE WORLD - Hannah Ritchie ✅

  9. SAVING US - Katharine Hayhoe 🥇

  10. DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS - Kate Raworth ✅

  11. THE PRECIPICE - Toby Ord ✅

  12. ALL WE CAN SAVE - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson ✅

  13. THE POWER OF PLACE - Winifred Gallagher 🥇

  14. PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY - Tim Marshall ✅

  15. DRAWDOWN - Paul Hawken ✅

  16. A LIFE ON OUR PLANET - David Attenborough ✅

  17. BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE - Andrew Boyd & Dave Oswald Mitchell (eds.)

  18. HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER - Bill Gates

  19. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING - Naomi Klein

  20. SPEED AND SCALE - John Doerr

  21. THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST - Jeff Goodell

  22. GENERATION DREAD - Britt Wray

  23. A FIELD GUIDE TO CLIMATE ANXIETY - Sarah Jaquette Ray

  24. THE PARENTS' GUIDE TO CLIMATE REVOLUTION - Mary DeMocker

  25. HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE - Harriet Shugarman

  26. WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE - William MacAskill

  27. UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE - Kimberly Nicholas

  28. THE IMAGE OF THE CITY - Kevin Lynch

  29. SUBURBAN NATION - Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk & Jeff Speck

  30. PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE - Eric Klinenberg

  31. THE GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE - James Howard Kunstler

  32. WALKABLE CITY - Jeff Speck

  33. THE HIGH COST OF FREE PARKING - Donald Shoup

  34. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES - Jane Jacobs

  35. HAPPY CITY - Charles Montgomery

  36. TRIUMPH OF THE CITY - Edward Glaeser

  37. STRONG TOWNS - Charles L. Marohn Jr.

  38. THE COLOR OF LAW - Richard Rothstein

E12: Historical Thinking & Collective Wisdom (17 books)

  1. THE LESSONS OF HISTORY - Will & Ariel Durant 🥇

  2. THE MARCH OF FOLLY - Barbara W. Tuchman 🥇

  3. THE USES AND ABUSES OF HISTORY - Margaret MacMillan ✅

  4. THE LANDSCAPE OF HISTORY - John Lewis Gaddis ✅

  5. HISTORICAL THINKING AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS - Sam Wineburg 🥇

  6. WHAT IS HISTORY? - E.H. Carr ✅

  7. THINKING ABOUT HISTORY - Sarah Maza ✅

  8. THE DEATH OF THE PAST - J.H. Plumb ✅

  9. HISTORIANS' FALLACIES - David Hackett Fischer ✅

  10. LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME - James W. Loewen

  11. A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD - E.H. Gombrich

  12. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - Howard Zinn

  13. WHY STUDY HISTORY? - John Fea

  14. WHY LEARN HISTORY (WHEN IT'S ALREADY ON YOUR PHONE) - Sam Wineburg

  15. TEACHING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED - James W. Loewen

  16. AFTER THE FACT: THE ART OF HISTORICAL DETECTION - James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle

  17. IN DEFENCE OF HISTORY - Richard J. Evans

E13: Meaning-Making & Worldviews (20 books)

  1. RELIGION IN HUMAN EVOLUTION - Robert Bellah 🥇

  2. A SECULAR AGE - Charles Taylor ✅ (cross-ref E8)

  3. THE CASE FOR GOD - Karen Armstrong ✅

  4. THE ANALECTS - Confucius ✅

  5. WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT - Walpola Rahula ✅

  6. THE TAO OF POOH - Benjamin Hoff ✅

  7. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - Stephen Hawking

  8. SAND TALK - Tyson Yunkaporta

  9. MEDITATIONS - Marcus Aurelius

  10. THE BOOK OF JOY - Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu

  11. WHEN THINGS FALL APART - Pema Chödrön

  12. AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ - Sarah Bakewell

  13. FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES - James P. Carse ✅

  14. LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET - Rainer Maria Rilke ✅

  15. HOW TO BE A STOIC - Massimo Pigliucci

  16. PHILOSOPHY FOR LIFE - Jules Evans

  17. THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY - Alain de Botton

  18. THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY - Aldous Huxley

  19. LOVE'S EXECUTIONER - Irvin D. Yalom

  20. THE GIFT OF THERAPY - Irvin D. Yalom

E14: Ethics & Moral Reasoning (19 books)

  1. JUSTICE - Michael Sandel 🥇

  2. CREATING CAPABILITIES - Martha Nussbaum 🥇

  3. AFTER VIRTUE - Alasdair MacIntyre ✅ (cross-ref A4)

  4. HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES - Rushworth Kidder ✅ (cross-ref B5)

  5. COSMOPOLITANISM - Kwame Anthony Appiah ✅

  6. THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE - Peter Singer ✅

  7. THE ETHICS OF AMBIGUITY - Simone de Beauvoir

  8. PRACTICAL ETHICS - Peter Singer

  9. MORAL TRIBES - Joshua Greene

  10. THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS - Aristotle

  11. IN A DIFFERENT VOICE - Carol Gilligan

  12. BEING GOOD - Simon Blackburn

  13. GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS - Immanuel Kant

  14. ETHICS: INVENTING RIGHT AND WRONG - J.L. Mackie

  15. HUMANITY: A MORAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - Jonathan Glover

  16. DOING GOOD BETTER - William MacAskill 🥇

  17. ON WHAT MATTERS (VOLUME 1) - Derek Parfit

  18. THE ELEMENTS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY - James Rachels

  19. A SHORT HISTORY OF ETHICS - Alasdair MacIntyre

E15: Existential Questions & Mortality (9 books)

  1. THE DENIAL OF DEATH - Ernest Becker 🥇

  2. EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY - Irvin Yalom 🥇

  3. STARING AT THE SUN - Irvin Yalom 🥇

  4. THE WORM AT THE CORE - Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski ✅

  5. IMMORTALITY - Stephen Cave ✅

  6. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE - William James 🥇

  7. THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS - Albert Camus ✅

  8. THE EXISTENTIALIST'S SURVIVAL GUIDE - Gordon Marino ✅

  9. THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH - Leo Tolstoy ✅

DOMAIN F: CREATIVE CANON & COMMUNICATION ARTS

F1: Storytelling - Objective & Journalistic (13 books)

  1. THEORY AND REALITY - Peter Godfrey-Smith ✅

  2. THE INVENTION OF JOURNALISM ETHICS - Stephen J.A. Ward ✅

  3. THE ELEMENTS OF JOURNALISM - Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel ✅

  4. A PHILOSOPHY OF EVIDENCE LAW - H.L. Ho ✅

  5. ON WRITING WELL - William Zinsser ✅

  6. STORYCRAFT - Jack Hart 🥇f F2)*

  7. BLUR - Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel ✅

  8. DRAFT NO. 4 - John McPhee 🥇

  9. GOOD PROSE - Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd 🥇

  10. THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY - Phillip Lopate (ed.) 🥇

  11. TELL IT SLANT - Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola 🥇

  12. WRITING FOR STORY - Jon Franklin 🥇

  13. THE ART OF CREATIVE NONFICTION - Lee Gutkind 🥇

F2: Storytelling - Dramatic & Fictional (16 books)

  1. STORY - Robert McKee 🥇

  2. THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES - Joseph Campbell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  3. THE STORYTELLING ANIMAL - Jonathan Gottschall ✅

  4. SAVE THE CAT! - Blake Snyder ✅

  5. THE POWER OF MYTH - Joseph Campbell ⚠️ 🥇 [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  6. ANIMAL FARM - George Orwell ✅

  7. HARRY POTTER SERIES - J.K. Rowling ✅

  8. THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING - Lajos Egri 🥇

  9. CREATING CHARACTER ARCS - K.M. Weiland ✅

  10. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - J.R.R. Tolkien ✅

  11. WIRED FOR STORY - Lisa Cron ✅

  12. STORYCRAFT: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING NARRATIVE NONFICTION - Jack Hart 🥇

  13. THE ANATOMY OF STORY - John Truby ✅

  14. INTO THE WOODS: A FIVE ACT JOURNEY INTO STORY - John Yorke ✅

  15. STORY GENIUS - Lisa Cron ✅

  16. DIALOGUE: THE ART OF VERBAL ACTION - Robert McKee 🥇

F3: Persuasion, Marketing & Advocacy (12 books)

  1. CONTAGIOUS - Jonah Berger ✅

  2. BUILDING A STORYBRAND - Donald Miller ✅

  3. THE TIPPING POINT - Malcolm Gladwell ⚠️ [USE W/ ANNOTATION]

  4. THE INSPIRATION CODE - Kristi Hedges ✅

  5. WORDS THAT WORK - Frank Luntz ✅

  6. THIS IS MARKETING - Seth Godin ✅

  7. IGNITING INSPIRATION - Carmine Gallo ✅

  8. PRE-SUASION - Robert B. Cialdini

  9. YES! 50 SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN WAYS TO BE PERSUASIVE - Noah J. Goldstein et al.

  10. THE SMALL BIG - Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein & Robert B. Cialdini

  11. THANK YOU FOR ARGUING - Jay Heinrichs

  12. AGE OF PROPAGANDA - Anthony Pratkanis & Elliot Aronson

F4: Creative Canon (62 books)

Curated fiction and literary nonfiction with full thematic analysis

  1. THE GIVER - Lois Lowry ✅

  2. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA - Ursula K. Le Guin ✅

  3. WATERSHIP DOWN - Richard Adams ✅

  4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - J.R.R. Tolkien ✅ (cross-ref F2)

  5. AMERICAN BORN CHINESE - Gene Luen Yang 🥇

  6. LONG WAY DOWN - Jason Reynolds ✅

  7. PERSEPOLIS - Marjane Satrapi ✅

  8. THE HATE U GIVE - Angie Thomas ✅

  9. THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET - Sandra Cisneros ✅

  10. BROWN GIRL DREAMING - Jacqueline Woodson ✅

  11. ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE - Benjamin Alire Sáenz ✅

  12. I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER - Erika L. Sánchez ✅

  13. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - Ursula K. Le Guin 🥇

  14. THE POET X - Elizabeth Acevedo 🥇

  15. MARCH (trilogy) - John Lewis et al. ✅

  16. CLAP WHEN YOU LAND - Elizabeth Acevedo 🥇

  17. CHALLENGER DEEP - Neal Shusterman 🥇

  18. THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR - Nicola Yoon ✅

  19. CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE - Tomi Adeyemi ✅

  20. MONSTER - Walter Dean Myers ✅

  21. SPEAK - Laurie Halse Anderson ✅

  22. ALL AMERICAN BOYS - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely 🥇

  23. 1984 - George Orwell 🥇

  24. BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley ✅

  25. FAHRENHEIT 451 - Ray Bradbury ✅

  26. THE HANDMAID'S TALE - Margaret Atwood ✅

  27. LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding ✅

  28. THE BELL JAR - Sylvia Plath 🥇

  29. INVISIBLE MAN - Ralph Ellison 🥇

  30. THE BLUEST EYE - Toni Morrison 🥇

  31. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN - Betty Smith 🥇

  32. A SEPARATE PEACE - John Knowles 🥇

  33. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS - Khaled Hosseini ✅

  34. NEVER LET ME GO - Kazuo Ishiguro 🥇

  35. STATION ELEVEN - Emily St. John Mandel ✅

  36. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut ✅

  37. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Erich Maria Remarque ✅

  38. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED - Tim O'Brien ✅

  39. A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway ✅

  40. NIGHT - Elie Wiesel 🥇

  41. WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE - Julie Otsuka ✅

  42. BELOVED - Toni Morrison 🥇

  43. THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker ✅

  44. NATIVE SON - Richard Wright ✅

  45. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS - Maya Angelou ✅

  46. THINGS FALL APART - Chinua Achebe 🥇

  47. CEREMONY - Leslie Marmon Silko ✅

  48. PARABLE OF THE SOWER - Octavia E. Butler ✅

  49. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE - Gabriel García Márquez 🥇

  50. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS - Arundhati Roy 🥇

  51. ON THE COME UP - Angie Thomas 🥇

  52. THE 57 BUS - Dashka Slater ✅

  53. WE ARE THE ANTS - Shaun David Hutchinson ✅

  54. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD - Zora Neale Hurston (to be analyzed) ✅ 55-62. Additional titles in category file - see F4 category document for complete list

APPENDIX A: VETTING NOTES

🚫 RESEARCH FRAUD — Books to Exclude

BookAuthorIssueReplacementPREDICTABLY IRRATIONALDan ArielyData fabrication (2021)Thaler & Sunstein's NudgeMISBELIEFDan ArielySame authorKahneman's NoiseIMAGINEJonah LehrerFabricated quotesAdam Grant's Originals

⚠️ SIGNIFICANT CAUTION — Organizational Decision Required

AuthorBooksIssueRecommendationMatthew WalkerWHY WE SLEEPDocumented accuracy problemsConsider excludingJordan Peterson12 RULES FOR LIFE, etc.Polarization riskAvoid for youth programYascha MounkTHE IDENTITY TRAP2024 allegationExclude given youth focusJohann HariCHASING THE SCREAM, LOST CONNECTIONSPrior scandalReplace or use disclaimer

⚠️ USE WITH ANNOTATION — Mentor Guidance Required

AuthorBooksAnnotationMalcolm GladwellBLINK, OUTLIERS, THE TIPPING POINTJournalist, not researcherDaniel GolemanEMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, etc.Popularizer who overstated claimsYuval Noah HarariSAPIENS, HOMO DEUS, etc.Popular history, not specialistJoseph CampbellHERO WITH A THOUSAND FACESDocumented antisemitism in correspondenceMarshall RosenbergNONVIOLENT COMMUNICATIONPosthumous conduct concernsMustafa SuleymanTHE COMING WAVE2019 management issues

APPENDIX B: SUMMARY STATISTICS

Books by Category

CodeCategoryCountDOMAIN AUnderstanding the Self~180A1Brain Architecture & Cognition43A2Consciousness, Intuition & Self-Awareness38A3Emotional Intelligence & Regulation30A4Identity, Character & Purpose34A5Habits, Behavior & Self-Management21A6Sports Psychology & Athletic Development11DOMAIN BThinking & Reasoning~166B1Logic & Rationality29B2Truth, Evidence & Critical Thinking21B3Language & Cognition11B4Probability & Uncertainty15B5Decision Frameworks13B6Systems Thinking & Complexity21B7Creativity, Learning & Expertise57DOMAIN CCommunication & Relationships~116C1Communication & Influence30C2Relationships & Social Skills20C3Teams & Collaboration18C4Community & Belonging28C5Conflict Resolution & Mediation20DOMAIN DLife Skills & Wellbeing~184D1Physical Health: Body, Sleep, Nutrition31D2Safety & Risk Assessment20D3Digital Citizenship & Safety12D4Money & Personal Finance6D5Career Development & Life Design19D6Leadership & Getting Things Done22D7Executive Function & Planning16D8Execution & Productivity13D9Substance Use & Prevention11D10Trauma, Grief & Recovery23D11Mental Health & Psychological Wellbeing11DOMAIN ESociety & Systems~335E1Human Nature & Evolution40E2Adolescent Psychology & Development23E3Family Systems & Parenting14E4Sexuality & Gender Identity Education15E5Pedagogy & Education Theory42E6The Contemporary Moment15E7Technology, Innovation & Future34E8Democracy, Citizenship & Institutions65E9Economic Systems & Understanding8E10Movements & Activism13E11The Planetary Context38E12Historical Thinking & Collective Wisdom17E13Meaning-Making & Worldviews20E14Ethics & Moral Reasoning19E15Existential Questions & Mortality9DOMAIN FCreative Canon & Communication Arts~103F1Storytelling: Objective & Journalistic13F2Storytelling: Dramatic & Fictional16F3Persuasion, Marketing & Advocacy12F4Creative Canon62TOTAL (raw entries)1,111Unique BooksAfter de-duplication1,038