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Critical Thinking book summaries

26 books summarized.

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

5-min read

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes cover

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

4-min read

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

4-min read

Mere Christianity cover

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis

5-min read

The Art of Thinking Clearly cover

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

5-min read

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know cover

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant

5-min read

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking cover

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

2-min read

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values cover

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Robert M. Pirsig

4-min read

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions cover

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

3-min read

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable cover

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

5-min read

21 Lessons for the 21st Century cover

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

6-min read

Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

5-min read

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World cover

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

Hans and Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

3-min read

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

5-min read

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know cover

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

2-min read

Principles: Life and Work cover

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

5-min read

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

4-min read

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World cover

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

5-min read

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters cover

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard Rumelt

5-min read

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts cover

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke

5-min read

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

6-min read

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking cover

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan

6-min read

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure cover

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff

5-min read

The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn if Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You cover

The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn if Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You

Rob Fitzpatrick

5-min read

A Little History of Philosophy cover

A Little History of Philosophy

Nigel Warburton

8-min read

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading cover

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren

4-min read