Field Notes

Breath

• Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

Sleep and Circadian

• The Power of When
• The Circadian Code: Lose weight, supercharge your energy, and transform your health from morning to midnight

Nutrition

• How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy
• Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
• Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain—for Life
• Vitamin D: 4th Edition
• Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How to Fix It on Your Own
• The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Manage Your
  Weight

Movement

• The Pain Relief Secret: How to Retrain Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, and Overcome Chronic Pain
• Ready to Run
• Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
• The Squat Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering the Squat and Finding Your True Strength
• Rebuilding Milo
• Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
• The Four-Hour Body
• Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
• Biotensegrity The Structural Basis of Life
• Fascial Dysfunction: Manual Therapy Approaches
• Temporomandibular Disorders: Manual Therapy, Exercise, and Needling
• Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• The Align Method

Longevity

• The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
• Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success

Biology, Neuro, and Medicine

• Biochemical Individuality
• The Psychobiotic Revolution
• Glial Cells
• Tripping Over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine’s Most Entrenched Paradigms
• Mindwise: How we understand what others think
• Brainwashing
• Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst
• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
• The Elephant in the Brain
• A Thousand Brains: A new theory of intelligence
• How Emotions Are Made: The secret life of the brain
• Noise: A flaw in human judgement
• Musicophilia
• This is Your Brain on Music
• Heat Shock Proteins
• Rhonda Patrick FoundMyFitness summary: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics
• The Time Paradox
• Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters
• Anxious: The modern mind in the age of anxiety
• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
• The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
• Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
• Livewired
• Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
• The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity–and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
• The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse the Cognitive Decline of Dementia
• The End of Alzheimer’s Program
• The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words

Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
• Scattered Minds
• Psychoneuroimmunology Systems Biology: Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
• Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology: Second Edition
• Motivational Interviewing and CBT: Combining Strategies for Maximum Effectiveness
• How to do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, + Create Yourself
• Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love
• The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition

Learning and Mental Models

• The Art of Learning
• The Four-Hour Chef
• Moonwalking with Einstein
• Learning Ecosystems: An emerging praxis for the future of education
• Extend Your Mind
• The Great Mental Models Volume 1
• The Great Mental Models Volume 2
• The Great Mental Models Volume 3
• Super Thinking: The big book of mental models
• An Introduction to Decision Theory
• The Art of Thinking Clearly
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Freakonomics
• Fooled by Randomness
• Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
• A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
• All I Want to Know Is Where I’m Going to Die So I’ll Never Go There
• Seeking Wisdom from Darwin to Munger

Artificial Intelligence

• Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence
• How to Create a Mind: The secrets of human thought revealed
• Superintelligence: Paths, dangers, strategies
• Vision: A computational investigation into the human

Love and Sex

• How to Think More About Sex
• The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
• When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
• https://kinseyinstitute.org/ 
• Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
• Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts

Habits

• Show Your Work
• Design Your Work
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

Personal Development and Purpose

• The Comfort Crisis: Embrace discomfort to reclaim your wild, happy, healthy self
• Hell Yeah or No
• Flow: The psychology of optimal experience
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
• The War of Art
• The Definitive Book of Body Language
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
• What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
• Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose
• The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
• Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
• Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Storytelling

• The Anatomy of Story
• The Storytelling Animal
• Wired for Story
• Letters to a Young Writer

Anthropology and History

• Sapiens
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Origin Story: A big history of everything
• Homo Deus
• The Silk Roads, A New History of the World
• The Weirdest People in the World: How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Environment, Societal Issues, and Politics

• Merchants of Doubt
• The Physics of Climate Change
• The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion
• This is Your Mind on Plants
• Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
• The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brain Washing
• The Threefold Social Order
• Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
• The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
• After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies
• Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment

Group Development and Sensemaking

• The Rational Optimist: How prosperity evolves
• The Sovereign Individual
• The Bitcoin Standard
• Scale: The universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
• Reinventing Organizations
• Center for Applied Rationality Handbook
• Constructive Developmental Theory
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
• Embracing Your Demons: An Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• An Overview of Developmental Stages of Consciousness
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies
• Rebel Wisdom Sensemaking Companion
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
• Waking the Tiger
• The Future of Life

Complexity, Science, and Physics

• Chaos: Making a new science
• A New Kind of Science
• A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that transform the world
• Skin in the Game: Hidden asymmetries in daily life
• The Feynman Lectures
• Bad Science
• The Fabric of Reality: The science of parallel universes
• The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicists Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
• https://peterattiamd.com/category/understanding-science/

Philosophy and Spirituality

• The Doors of Perception
• Beyond Good and Evil
• The Art of War
• Meditations
• The Book of Secrets: 112 meditations to discover the mystery within
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
• Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive truths to the enduring questions of life

Other Book Lists

• https://www.tiagobooks.com/blogpage/new-book-list