# Book Recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [March 13, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-recommendations/596 "2015-03-13T19:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-recommendations/596/1 "2015-03-13T19:54:26Z")
In response to the recent thread on [Slate Star Codex’s take on Baumeister’s “Willpower”](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/slate-star-codex-on-willpower/593 "Mostly me replying to people who are wrong on the internet (not really)"), someone asked for book recommendations. Here are the first ones that came to mind: 1. Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will 2. Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge 3. Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow (not directly related to willpower) 4. Nick Winter’s The Motivation Hacker 5. Akst’s We Have Met the Enemy 6. Ayres’s Carrots and Sticks (and [a paper by the other StickK cofounder](http://karlan.yale.edu/p/AnnualReviewEdits4.pdf "The Beeminder blog post, 'Synonyms for Self-binding' refers to this paper") is very good but very academic) 7. Schelling’s Choice and Consequence Oh yes, and see the Further Reading section of [the inaugural post on the Beeminder blog](http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia "How To Do What You Want"). [wikifying this if anyone wants to add things or add links] ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-recommendations/596/2 "2015-03-13T19:57:41Z")
Thanks! Honestly I’m just waiting on @djahandarie to come back to the [Visualizing reading](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/visualizing-reading/519) thread so I can beg him to share the source. I can’t bring myself to read a book until then! Haha 🙂