Best Books on Personality Type

By Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers

Written by one of the creators of the Myers-Briggs Personality System, this book explains each of the 16 personality types, as well as the E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P preferences.

Isabel Briggs Myers includes sections on personality type and learning, relationships, occupations, and children.

Reading Difficulty: Moderately hard to read

By Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

Paul and Barbara Tieger are two of the top experts in making the Myers-Briggs technology easily accessible and understandable to the public. This book describes both Myers-Briggs theory and Temperament theory.

It also offers a dedicated chapter for each of the 16 types and it shows how those types relate to careers.

Reading Difficulty: Extremely easy to read

By David Keirsy

Keirsy has probably taken Myers-Briggs technology further than anyone. He developed what is called "Temperament Theory" which shows that behind the 16 types there are actually four fundamental temperaments, each describing four of the 16 types.

Reading Difficulty: Moderately difficult to read

By Otto Kroeger, Jane Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

The compelling reason to use this book is that it includes real life stories and examples taken from Kroeger and Thuesen's consulting practice. They use Personality Type in their business where they go into companies to help solve interpersonal relationship problems, to build better teams, and to teach Type to the employees so they can be more effective.

The stories will help you learn and understand how Type works in the real world.

Reading Difficulty: Extremely easy to read