The books on this list by conceptually are quite useful. The ones I've read and thought are useful I've listed below.

Superforecasting

Thinking Fast and Slow

The Undercover Economist

The Righteous Mind

Predictably Irrational

The Better Angels of our Nature

Influence

Adapt

The Signal and the Noise

Some others I have found useful

4DX - How to execute plans efficiently (meant more for people in charge of orgs or teams but still applicable to individuals)

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy - Summary of a useful strategy framework

The Charisma Myth

Lean Startup

The Art of Gathering

The Art of Community

You Are Not So Smart

Also two EA reading lists that cover poverty, future generations, animal welfare, psychology, productivity, career/business and advocacy.

List 1

List 2

Although related, EA has grown and includes many people who don't share the rationalist/LW most prevalent among EAs concerned with x-risk, so LessWrong and especially the Sequences are probably worth mentioning.

Obvious point: While EAs are special in some important ways, there are many more ways in which EAs aren't that special. So if you want to be effective at what you do, then often generally good advice/resources for your field would be helpful.

Eg, if you want to be good at accounting, the best books on accounting continue to be useful as an "EA accountant", if you want to be good at entrepreneurship/programming/social skills/research, the generally useful resources are still good for those things.

Books I found helpful:

Decisive[1]

The Productivity Project

Code Complete

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Anathem (fiction)

Books that have the potential to be helpful, but I did not personally find dramatically helpful:

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Deep Work

The Signal and the Noise

Crucial Conversations

The Art of Learning [2]

[1]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kwkA0XBHSewIjlfIHHqQH9ISo0s5d_kp-w7w594Pks/edit

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCMQyOBo7ROx012CkIIzQ7rklBecaRzRhxusPDh3wBY/edit

80K's All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be successful in any job (link).

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My suggestions so far:

• “The Secret of Our Success” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZpuYSQaLd5uMEoSxK/link-book-review-the-secret-of-our-success-or-slate-star
• “Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FuztztEKAAfWqpYTY/link-why-generalists-triumph-in-a-specialized-world

Other suggestions and brief summary of what you'll get out of them:

• “SPIN Selling” and “To Sell is Human.” Sales seems to be an often undervalued but important skill, these are good "how" and "why" books, respectively.
• “Feeling Good Together” about why marriage counseling generally doesn’t work and how to have good relationships
• “Why We Sleep” about the benefits of sleep
• “Trust Surrender Receive” about MDMA and how many of our challenges come via trauma
• “The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team” about how to enable a team to be productive and collaborate well
• “Don’t Shoot The Dog” about reinforcement learning and animal training (you'll see positive and negative reinforcement everywhere after you read this book)
• “How To Get Lucky” about how to be luckier and have more good things happen for you

Hunger and Public Action by Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze

https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Public-Studies-Development-Economics/dp/0198283652\

Demographic and human capital scenarios for the 21st century

http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/15226/1/lutz_et_al_2018_demographic_and_human_capital.pdf