Books

For parents

The Art of Insubordination, by Todd Kashdan

Unconditional Parenting, by Alfie Cohen (maybe one of the best management books of all time)

Nurture Shock, new thinking about raising children

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

Critical thinking

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking, by Richard Nisbett

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if your Life Depended on it, by Chris Voss

Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowski

Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide, by Alex Reinhart

Thinking Fast and Slow, by Danny Kahnemann

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Intangibles in Business, by Douglas Hubbard

Randomistas, by Andrew Leigh

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, by Tim Harford

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, by Chip and Dan Heath

Wrong, by David Freedman

Radical Markets, by Weyl and Posner

Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Flaw of Averages, by Sam Savage

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don't, by Nate Silver (excellent book except the nonsense about climate change)

Everything is Obvious (Once you Know the Answer), by Duncan Watts

Bounce, by Matthew Syed

True Enough, by Farhad Manjoo

Stumbling on Happiness, by Dan Gilbert (click and then look for Kindle edition)

Business

Joy, Inc., by Richard Sheridan

The Halo Effect, by Phil Rosensweig

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, by Michael J. Mauboussin 

Leadership BS, by Jeffrey Pfeffer

How Brands Grow, by Byron Sharp

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Intuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin

Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, by Bob Chapman

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths, and Utter Nonsense, by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton

Kanban, by David J. Anderson

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society, by Jim Manzi

Beyond Performance Management, by Jeremy Hope

Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, by Paul Shoemaker

Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, by Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healy

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management, by Stephen Denning

Simple, by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs, by Rakesh Khurana

Life skills

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, by Robert Waldinger