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Read this one a couple of times and picked up the audiobook. A quick read, but covers an important topic thoroughly enough to make it one of my top picks.

“When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives—about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.”
― Sam Harris, Lying

These are the audiobooks I listened to at the beginning of the week when I drove out to and back from seeing my Mom and family ☺️! They were all superb except for “Lullaby”, which was mediocre. My favorite among the pack is the tagged book, Sam Harris‘s 😁—I love philosophical essays.

Have you read any of these?! Highly recommend them.

Felt more like an essay of Sam's opinions than a book.

Illusory truth effect: A term in psychology for when people are predisposed to remember statements as true even after they have been disconfirmed.

In fact, suspicion often grows on both sides of a lie: Research indicates that liars trust those they deceive less than they otherwise might--and the more damaging their lies, the less they trust, or even like, their victims. It seems that in protecting their egos and interpreting their own behavior as justified, lies tend to deprecate the people they lie to.

This is less of a book than a long essay.
Throughout the piece, Harris makes the argument that there are significant benefits to be gained both personally and societally by rejecting lying in both large and small forms.