25 Top Must-Read Books About Economics

1. Drunk Tank Pink by Alter
2. Predictably Irrational  by Dan Ariely 
3. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely
4. The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
5. Save More Tomorrow by Benartzi and Lewin
6. The Smarter Screen by Benartzi and Lehrer
7. Thinking Smarter by Benartzi and Lewin
8. Risk Savvy by Gigerenzer
9. Stumbling on Happiness by Gilbert
10. The Why Axis by Gneezy and List
11. The Happiness Hypothesis by Haidt
12. The Righteous Mind by Haidt
13. Decisive by Heath and Heath
14. Made to Stick by Heath and Heath
15. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman
16. Dance with Chance by Markridakis and Hogarth
17. The Irrational Economist by Michel-Kerjan and Slovic
18. Scarcity by Mullanainathan and Shafir
19. Democracy Despite Itself by Oppenheimer and Edwards
20. Irrational Exuberance by Shiller
21. Simpler by Sunstein
22. Misbehaving by Thaler
23. Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein
24. That Which is Seen, and That Which is Unseen by Frédéric Bastiat
25. Man, Economy, and State by Murray N. Rothbard

3 Good Self Help Books

1. Wishcraft by Barbara Sher - One of the best, most realistic and most fun books about figuring out what you want in your life and how to get it.
2. A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine - about the history of Stoicism and offers guidance on how to apply some of its ideas to your everyday life.
3. Dress for Success by John T. Molloy - To many people in this world, "You are what you wear!" Dress the part of what you wish to be in order to become that person. 

7 Books to Make You a Better Critical Thinker

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – Learn about the two systems that make us think. There is the fast, intuitive, and emotional side. Then there is the slower, more deliberative, and more logical.


2. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler – Learn to look at a piece of text and analyze it critically.


3. Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky – Become a skeptical thinker. Question media. Question politicians. Question everything.


4. Plato’s Dialogues – An introduction to Platonic philosophy.


5. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan – Learn to differentiate between pseudoscience and the real thing.


6. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely – An argument that refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.


7. The Art of Deception by Capaldi and Smit – How to win an argument, recognize a fallacy, persuade a skeptic, and more.