Lewis Bayly offers this guidance for choosing particular psalms for particular occasions:
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Then sing:
In the morning, Ps 3; Ps 5; Ps 16; Ps 22; Ps 144. In the evening, Ps 4; Ps 127; Ps 141. For mercy after a sin committed, Ps 51; Ps 103. In sickness or heaviness, Ps 6; Ps 13; Ps 88; Ps 90; Ps 91; Ps 137; Ps 146. When thou art recovered, Ps 30; Ps 32. On the Sabbath day, Ps 19; Ps 92; Ps 95. In time of joy, Ps 80; Ps 98; Ps 107; Ps 136; Ps 145. Before sermon, Ps 1; Ps 12; Ps 147; Ps 119:1-8 and Ps 119:33-40. After sermon, any Psalm which concerneth the chief argument of the sermon. At the communion, Ps 22; Ps 23; Ps 103; Ps 111; Ps 116. For spiritual solace, Ps 15; Ps 19; Ps 25; Ps 46; Ps 67; Ps 112; Ps 116. After wrong and disgrace received, Ps 42; Ps 69; Ps 70; Ps 140; Ps 144.
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I found a few other threads in which some have mentioned their favorite psalms.
Psalm 52B - Old 77th Favorite Psalms for Listening & Learning psalms and hymns kids should know First Psalm Taught? Free psalm recordings!!
Some of my personal favorites include
1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter
Psalm 1 (meditation upon God's law)
Psalm 2 (Prince Messiah reigns)
Psalm 4 (evening)
Psalm 8 (praising our Creator for his magnificent creation)
Psalm 19 (the book of nature and the book of God's law)
Psalm 23 (the Lord is my Shepherd - Crimond)
Psalm 25 ("Let not the errors of my youth / nor sins, remember'd be")
Psalm 27 ("Though me my parents both should leave / the Lord will me up take")
Psalm 32 (praise God for forgiveness of sins)
Psalm 34 ("O taste and see that God is good")
Psalm 46 ("God is our refuge and our strength")
Psalm 51 (the mercy of the Lord is great)
Psalm 68 (Huguenot war psalm)
Psalm 84 (rejoicing to dwell in the courts of the Lord)
Psalm 90 (to cast oneself upon the mercies of God)
Psalm 98 (praise the Lord)
Psalm 100 (Old 100th)
Psalm 103 (Bless the Lord)
Psalm 104 (Bless the Lord)
Psalm 115 ("Not unto us, Lord, not to us")
Psalm 119 (love the law of God)
Psalm 124 (Old 124th)
Psalm 127 (family psalm)
Psalm 128 (family psalm)
Psalm 130 (waiting upon the Lord)
Psalm 133 (unity psalm)
Psalm 136 (another of the same)
Psalm 139 (how great are the works of God)
Psalm 148 (let all praise the Lord)
Ainsworth Psalter
Psalm 23
Psalm 100
Book of Psalms for Singing
Psalm 4B (evening)
Psalm 8B (praising our Creator for his magnificent creation)
Psalm 20B (leaning upon God alone)
Psalm 23B (The Lord is my Shepherd - Crimond)
Psalm 46C (Ein' Feste Burg)
Psalm 51B (Myra)
Psalm 51D (Toplady)
Psalm 65A ("Praise waits for Thee in Zion")
Psalm 84A (Stella)
Psalm 84B (Melita)
Psalm 90C (St. Catherine)
Psalm 98A (keep oxygen tanks on hand)
Psalm 100A (Old 100th)
Psalm 100C (RPCNA Covenanter favorite)
Psalm 103A ("Bless the Lord, my soul; my whole heart")
Psalm 104D ("How many works, Lord, in wisdom You've made")
Psalm 113A (special psalm)
Psalm 122B (when all God's people assemble to magnify his name)
Psalm 124B (Old 124th)
Psalm 133A ("Behold how good a thing it is")
Psalm 138A (casting one's cares upon the Lord)
Psalm 145A (praise God for he is worthy of praise)
Psalm 147B (the snow psalm)