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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

Merve Emre

307 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist by Elliot Aronson

Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist

Elliot Aronson

284 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography memoir psychology informative reflective medium-paced
The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker by Ariel Sabar

The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker

Ariel Sabar

missing page info • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology adventurous informative reflective
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

219 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
fiction science fiction speculative fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut

219 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
fiction classics science fiction challenging funny reflective slow-paced
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut

Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

336 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
fiction science fiction funny reflective slow-paced
The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

The Complete Far Side

Gary Larson

1272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
fiction comics adventurous medium-paced
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes #1-3

Bill Watterson

1440 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
fiction comics adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

252 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction mathematics psychology science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt #1

Edmund Morris

960 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced