Books

Chronological Bibliography

Below are some of the best books on Body Language and Nonverbal Communication

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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human by Francis Bacon (1605)

Chirologia: The Natural History of the Hand by John Bulwer (1644)

The True Method of Educating the Deaf… by Charles-Michel de l'Épée (1784)

Chironomia / Atreatise on rhetorical delivery by Gilbert Austin (1806)

The Mime of theAncients investigated through Neapolitan Gesture by Andrea De Jorio (1832)

The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression or an Electrophysiological Analysis of the Expression of the Emotions by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (1862)

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals  by Charles Darwin (1872)

A Manual of Gesture by Albert M. Bacon (1872)

Gesture and Environment by David Efron (1941) 

Psychology of Gesture by Charlotte Wolff (1945)

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman (1956)

The Silent Language by Edward T Hall (1959)

Affect Imagery Consciousness (Volume I & 2) by Silvan Tomkins (1962) 

The Communication of Emotional Meaning by Joel R. Davitz with Michael Beldoch (1964)

The Hidden Dimension by Edward T Hall (1966)

Personal Space by Robert Sommer (1969)

Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell (1970)

Body Language by Fast Julius (1970)

How to Read a Person Like a Book by Gerard Nierenberg and Henry Calero (1971)

Intimate Behaviour by Desmond Morris (1971)

The Face of Emotion by Carroll E. Izard (1971)

Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction by Mark Knapp (1972)

Body Language and the Social Order by Albert E. Scheflen (1972)

The Tell-tale Eye by Eckhard H. Hess (1975)

BodilyC ommunication by Michael Argyle (1975)

Ethology: The biology of behaviour by Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1975)

Body Hot Spots by R. Dale Guthrie (1976) 

Body Politics by Nancy M. Henley (1977)

Moving Bodies by Marianne LaFrance and Clara Mayo (1978)

The Unspoken Dialogue by Judee K. Burgoon (1978)

Skill in Nonverbal Communication by Robert Rosenthal (Ed.) (1979)

Gestures by Desmond Morris, Peter Collett, Peter Marsh and Marie O'Shaghnessy (1979)

The Pocket Guide to Manwatching by Desmond Morris (1982)

Love Signals by David Givens (1985)

Psychology of Language and Communication by Geoffrey Beattie and Andrew Ellis (1986)

What The Face Reveals by Paul Ekman (Editor) and Erika L. Rosenberg (Editor) (1987)

Telling Lies by Paul Ekman (1991)

Teach Yourself Body Language by Gordon Wainwright (1993)

Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World by Roger E. Axtell (1997)

Body Language Secrets by Susan Quillian (1997)

Reading People by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella (1999)

Detecting Lies and Deceit by Aldert Vrij (2000)

Peoplewatching by Desmond Morris (2002)

Emotions and Life by Robert Plutchik (2002) 

Put Your Best Foot Forward by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius PhD and Mark Mazzarella (2002)

Body Language at Work by Peter Clayton (2003)

Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman (2003)

The Book of Tells by Peter Collett (2004)

Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance by Adam Kendon (2004)

The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease (2004)

How to Read and Use Body Language by Anna Jaskolka (2004)

The Power of Nonverbal Communication by Henry H. Calero (2005)

Gesture and Thought by David McNeill (2005)

Body Language by Carolyn Boyes (2005)

The Power of Body Language by Tonya Reiman (2007)

Sequence Organization in Interaction by Emanuel A. Schegloff (2007)

Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction by Mark L. Knapp, Judith A. Hall and Terrence G. Horgan (2007)

What Every BODY is Saying by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins (2008)

Get People To Do What You Want by Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch (2008)

Crime Signals by David Givens (2008)

The Body Language Bible by Judi James (2008)

First Impressions edited by Nalini Ambady and John J. Skowronski (2008)

Body Language by James Borg (2008)

Winning Body Language by Mark Bowden (2010)

Nonverbal Communication by Judee K Burgoon, Laura K. Guerrero and Kory Floyd (2010)

Louder Than Words by Joe Navarro and Toni Sciarra Poynter (2010)

Your Body at Work by David Givens (2010)

Brilliant Body Language by Max A. Eggert (2010)

Liespotting by Pamela Meyer (2011)

Body Language by Shelley Hagen (2011)

Body Language by Robert Phipps (2012)

The Art of Reading Minds by Henrik Fexeus (2012)

The Body Language Advantage by Lillian Glass (2012)

Nonverbal Communication by David Matsumoto, Mark G. Frank and Hiy Sung Hwang (2012)

Body Language by Glenn Wilson (2012)

Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals by Mark Bowden (2013)

Body Language Secrets Revealed by Eric Goulard and Craig James Baxter (2013)

Dangerous Personalities by Joe Navarro (2014)

Rethinking Body Language by Geoffrey Beattie (2016)

Body Language by Elizabeth Kuhnke (2016)

Face Value by Alexander Todorov (2017)

Truth and Lies by Mark Bowden and Tracey Thomson (2018)

The Dictionary of Body Language by Joe Navarro (2018)

Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards (2018)

Without Saying A Word by Kasia Wezowski and Patryk Wezowski (2018)

The Psychology of Lying and Detecting Lies by Bella DePaulo (2018)

Read People by Rita Carter (2018)