Recommended Reading
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Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
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Reader Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Fiction
Authors by Last Name (g)
Gaddis, M.
There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ
Gaddis, William
Galbraith, John, Kenneth
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
Gandhi, M
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Gardiner, M.
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Gardner, M.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
Garfield, S.
Garrett, L.
Gat, Azar
Gates, Evalyn
Einstein’s Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe
Gazzaniga, M.
The Ethical Brain
The MInd’s Past
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique
Who’s In Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Gell-Mann, M.
Gibbon, Edward
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
Gibson, William
Gilbert, D.
Gilbert, M
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
Gill, C.
The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
Gilmore, M.
Gilpin Faust, D.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Giudice, Gian Francesco
A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC
Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Gleick, J.
The Information
Isaac Newton
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Gleiser, Marcelo
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
Glover, J
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Glucklich, Ariel
Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasures and Suicide Bombers—Why the Best Qualities of Religion are Also it
Glynn, I
An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind
Godwin, Peter
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Goffman, E
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
Behavior in Public Places
Gold, Dore
Goldacre, B.
Goldberg, E
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
Goldberg, M
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Goldhagen, DJ
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Golding, William
Goldstein, J
Goleman, D.
Destructive Emotions: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
Gombrich, E.H.
Goodheart, A.
Goodstein, David
Gopnik, A.
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Gore, A.
Gorenberg, G
Gould, S.
Gould, Stephen Jay
Rock of Ages
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Gourevitch, P.
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
Gray, J.
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animal
Grayling A.C.
Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
Grayling, A
Grayling, A.C.
Meditations for the Humanist
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World
Green, Henry
Green, Toby
Inquisition: The Reign of Fear
Greene, B.
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Elegant Universe
The Hidden Reality
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
The Power and the Glory
Greenland, S.K.
Greenspan, S and Donald S. Connery
Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It
Greer, G.
Gregory, R
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Greven, Philip J.
Spare The Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse
Gribbin, John
Science: A History
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Griffin, DR
Grinspoon, D.
Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life
Gross, PR and N Levitt
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
Grossman, W. M. & French, C.P. (Eds.)
Grus, Joel
Gunaratana, B.H.
Mindfulness in Plain English: Revised and Expanded Edition
Gupta, S
Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives…
Gupta, Sanjay
Gurvitz, I.
Deconstructing God: A Heretic’s Case for Religion
Guth, A.
Guttenplan, S.
A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind
