Following are some books I found useful as resources in specific categories and subjects:
| Books | Authors | Main Subject | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss | Michael Greger MD FACLM | Nutrition | Health |
| Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ | Giulia Enders | Nutrition | Health |
| Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss | Joel Fuhrman | Nutrition | Health |
| Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success | Shawn Stevenson, Sara Gottfried MD – foreword | Sleep | Health |
| The Happiness Hypothesis | Jonathan Haidt | Happiness | Health |
| How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up | Emilie Wapnick | Happiness | Health |
| Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions | Johann Hari | Emotions | Health |
| Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life | Susan David | Emotions | Health |
| Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis | Ada Calhoun | Stress | Health |
| Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving | Celeste Headlee | Stress | Health |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel Van der Kolk MD | Trauma | Health |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed | Lori Gottlieb | Therapy | Health |
| Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives | Daniel J Levitin | Aging | Health |
| Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium | Carl Sagan | Valuing Science | Science |
| The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | Carl Sagan | Science | Science |
| The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake | Steven Novella , Bob Novella – contributor , Cara Santa Maria – contributor , Jay Novella – contributor , Evan Bernstein – contributor | Science | Science |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | Evolution | Science |
| Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation | Bill Nye | Evolution | Science |
| The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World | Ziya Tong | Understanding Reality | Science |
| Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently | Beau Lotto | Perception | Science |
| Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , Steven Pinker – foreword | Information | Science |
| Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund , Ola Rosling | Facts | Science |
| A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours | John Allen Paulos | Numbers | Science |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely | Rational Thinking | Thinking |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | Beliefs | Thinking |
| Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think | Steven Kotler , Peter H. Diamandis | Positive Thinking | Thinking |
| Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life | Byron Katie , Stephen Mitchell | Positive Thinking | Thinking |
| The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are | Brené Brown | Positive Thinking | Thinking |
| The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage | Brené Brown PhD | Positive Thinking | Thinking |
| Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game | Mel Robbins | Positive Thinking | Thinking |
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Carol S. Dweck | Psychology | Thinking |
| Gutenberg the Geek | Jeff Jarvis | News Media | Thinking |
| The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing | Bronnie Ware | Regrets | Thinking |
| The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) | Gretchen Rubin | Behavior | Other People Exist |
| Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster – and Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down | Stephanie Brown PhD | Behavior | Other People Exist |
| The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences | Helen Riess MD , Liz Neporent , Alan Alda – foreword | Empathy | Other People Exist |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky | Behavior | Other People Exist |
| Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives | Gretchen Rubin | Habits | Other People Exist |
| Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything | BJ Fogg PhD | Habits | Other People Exist |
| Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World | Vivek H. Murthy | Relationships | Other People Exist |
| The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help | Amanda Palmer , Brené Brown (foreword) | Relationships | Other People Exist |
| Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World | Olga Khazan | Diversity | Other People Exist |
| Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood | Trevor Noah | Diversity | Other People Exist |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | Diversity | Other People Exist |
| The Truths We Hold: An American Journey | Kamala Harris | Diversity | Other People Exist |
| Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World that Wasn’t Designed for You | Jenara Nerenberg | Diversity | Other People Exist |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition | Michelle Alexander | Discrimination | Other People Exist |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | Discrimination | Other People Exist |
| In the Country We Love: My Family Divided | Diane Guerrero , Michelle Burford | Discrimination | Other People Exist |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Discrimination | Other People Exist |
| The Secret Letter | Debbie Rix | Discrimination | Other People Exist |
| Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth | Rachel Maddow | Politics | Other People Exist |