8 best-selling personal development books like High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley

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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

By: Amanda Ripley

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s b…

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1. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

By: Philip Jenkins

3.80

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In Jesus Wars , highly respected religious historian Philip Jenkins ( The Next Christendom ) reveal… read more

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"In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest."

-Philip Jenkins, Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

2. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

By: Stephen R. Covey , Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Al Switzler

3.78

Format: None pages,

Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high,… read more

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3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • communication
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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4. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • communication
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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6. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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7. Bavinck: A Critical Biography

By: James Eglinton

4.61

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

2020 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (History & Biography) 2020 For the Church Book Award … read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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9. Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

By: John D. Inazu

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective … read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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12. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Monica Guzmán

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more

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  • communication
  • self help
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

By: Anna Sale

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money , Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “li… read more

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  • communication
  • self help
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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
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"When we let tensions fester, or allow familiarity to pass for understanding, we tend to leave parts of ourselves out of our most important relationships."

-Anna Sale, Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

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15. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

By: Amanda Ripley

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s b… read more

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  • communication
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  • self help
  • personal development
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • leadership
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16. Outrage Machine: How Tech Is Amplifying Discontent, Undermining Democracy, and Pushing Us Towards Chaos

By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell

3.95

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with anger. Throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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17. Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

By: Dennis Proffitt

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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  • audiobook
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18. The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God

By: Steve Cuss

4.68

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Untangling our deepest beliefs about ourselves from our most precious beliefs about God Christians … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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19. The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

By: Adam Bryant

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career. The chasm separating managers from leaders is wi… read more

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  • business
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"Making the leap to leader requires killing your old self."

-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

"You should have a life plan. But your life plan shouldn’t be thrown off by having a really bad boss who doesn’t like you. If your plan is so narrow that you can’t survive a bad boss then you are not …"

-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

"You often have to be an actor when you’re a leader, That doesn’t mean that you’re not yourself and that you’re not authentic. It means that depending on the person you’re speaking to and what you nee…"

-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

"Yes, you need toget all the input. Be collaborative. Get the data you need. But in the end, it's your call, and a lot of people have trouble with this ownership. Then they have trouble sticking with …"

-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

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20. Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government

By: Sam Daley-Harris

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fool s errand. Add t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Between Everything and Nothing

By: Joe Meno

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Joe Meno brings a novelist's eye to the true story of two young men from Ghana and their journey fr… read more

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  • sociology
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"If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?"

-Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

"The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another."

-Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

15 Top audiobook books like High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

Scot McKnight

4.37

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Jon Ward

4.08

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