Psychology · Similar reads
Books like You Are Not So Smart
The best books like You Are Not So Smart are The Art of Thinking Clearly, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney is about self-delusion, cognitive bias, reasoning. 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.
- The Art of Thinking Clearly
01
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 reasoning with You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
02
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
03
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson · Psychology
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson wrote this book about the mechanisms by which people protect their sense of themselves as competent, moral, and well-intentioned after they have done something that contradicts that self-image.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary →
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
04
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Leonard Mlodinow · Psychology
Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist who writes accessible science for general audiences.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
05
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Irrationality
06
Stuart Sutherland · Psychology
Irrationality is Stuart Sutherland's rigorous and often mordant survey of the ways human beings consistently fail to reason well.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
07
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Mind Over Money
08
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
09
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
10
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - Predictably Irrational
11
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 You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary → - The Enigma of Reason
12
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber · Psychology
The standard account of human reasoning treats it as a tool for individual problem-solving that happens to malfunction under certain conditions.
Shares cognitive bias and reasoning with You Are Not So Smart.
Read the summary →
Books like You Are Not So Smart: quick answers
What are the best books like You Are Not So Smart?
The best books like You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney are The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with You Are Not So Smart, such as self-delusion, cognitive bias, reasoning.
What should I read after You Are Not So Smart?
A natural next read after You Are Not So Smart is The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli. Shares cognitive bias and reasoning with You Are Not So Smart. Other strong choices are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow.
What books are similar to You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney?
You Are Not So Smart centers on self-delusion, cognitive bias, reasoning. Books with a similar feel include The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
