Ranked: Why Do People Think Differently?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Do People Think Differently?

An Ethical Account

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel

Different Backgrounds

1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
3. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
4. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
5. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
6. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
7. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
8. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
9. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
10. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
11. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
12. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
13. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
14. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
15. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

Different Wants

1. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
2. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
3. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
4. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
5. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
6. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
7. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie

Divergent Thinking

1. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
2. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
3. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
4. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
5. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
6. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
7. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
8. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

Divergent Thinking / Fiction

1. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
2. Elektra by Jennifer Saint

The Influence of Culture

1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
2. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
3. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
4. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
5. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
8. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
9. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
10. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
11. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
12. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
13. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
14. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
15. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose by John Nathan
16. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea

The Influence of Culture / Fiction 

1. Berlin by Jason Lutes

Learning Different Ways to Think

1. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
2. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
3. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
4. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
5. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
6. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
7. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
8. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
9. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
10. The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith

How It Is Known That People Think Differently

1. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
2. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Brains Infrastructure

1. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different by Chantel Prat
2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
3. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
4. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
5. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
6. Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid: Life With a Learning Disability by Peter Flom

Fiction / Brains Infrastructure

1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes