Best Behavioral Science Books of 2025 (According to us)

Welcome to Behavioral Grooves. I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Hulahan. Today we're going to share a list of books that caught our attention just a wee bit more than the others did this year. A wee bit more.

Just a wee bit. Yeah. So yeah. Making a list of best books is never easy. We do it every year, but it's never easy and it's not always, I don't know.

Tim, it's not always a good thing to do because by its very nature, making lists means that some things are not on that list. And so now we have had 44 different episodes this year where we talked with the authors of a book. And we've read all of those books, we've read more books than that, but that gives us a good perspective to just say, hey. Here is the books that we want to recommend. And now sometimes we can get snarky about those books because we've read so many of them and we don't talk about that on air.

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