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Books like Irrationality
The best books like Irrationality are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Predictably Irrational, and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland is about cognitive bias, decision-making, rationality. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Predictably Irrational
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Dan Ariely · Psychology
Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology
Blink is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that fast, unconscious decisions — the ones made in the first two seconds of encountering something — are often just as reliable as slow, deliberate analysis, and sometimes more so.
Both dig into decision-making.
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- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · Economics
Nudge is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's argument that the way choices are presented — the default option, the order of items, the framing of a question — powerfully shapes what people decide, often more than their own stated preferences.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky · Psychology
Judgment Under Uncertainty is the academic anthology that launched a research program.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein · Psychology
Bias gets most of the attention in discussions of judgment error.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - The Undoing Project
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Michael Lewis · Psychology
Michael Lewis came to this subject sideways.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology
Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Mind Over Money
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Claudia Hammond · Psychology
Mind Over Money is Claudia Hammond's survey of the research on how people actually think about, feel about, and make decisions with money — which turns out to be considerably less rational than economic theory assumes.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler · Psychology
Richard Thaler is one of the founders of behavioral economics, the field that took the anomalies in standard economic theory seriously rather than dismissing them as noise.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - The Art of Thinking Clearly
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Rolf Dobelli · Psychology
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss entrepreneur and novelist who wrote a series of short newspaper columns on cognitive biases, later collected and expanded into this book.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
Read the summary → - The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
David Robson · Psychology
The Intelligence Trap is science journalist David Robson's investigation into a paradox: high intelligence and education do not protect against bad reasoning, and can actively make it worse.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality.
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Books like Irrationality: quick answers
What are the best books like Irrationality?
The best books like Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Irrationality, such as cognitive bias, decision-making, rationality.
What should I read after Irrationality?
A natural next read after Irrationality is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with Irrationality. Other strong choices are Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
What books are similar to Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland?
Irrationality centers on cognitive bias, decision-making, rationality. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
