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Recommended Reading

Note from Sam Harris: I do not necessarily share the views of every author on this list, but I have found each of these books well worth reading. All books purchased through this website generate a 7 percent return for my charitable foundation, Project Reason, through my Amazon Affiliates account.

 

Friedrich, O. The End of the World: A History. 1994.

Politics and History

Friedrich, O. The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945. 1994.

Politics and History

Fromm, E.. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. 1992.

Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History

Fuster, J.M. Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gazzaniga, M. The Ethical Brain. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gazzaniga, M. The MInd’s Past. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gazzaniga, M.S.. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique. 2009.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gilbert, D.. Stumbling on Happiness. 2007.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gilbert, M. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. 1985.

Politics and History

Gilpin Faust, D.. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. 2008.

Politics and History

Glover, J. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. 2001.

Politics and History, Philosophy

Glynn, I. An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind. 2003.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 1959.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. 1982.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. Behavior in Public Places. 1966.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goldberg, E. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goldberg, M. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. April 9, 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Goldhagen, DJ. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. 1997.

Politics and History

Goldstein, J. Experience of Insight. 1987.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Gorenberg, G. The End of Days. March 15, 2002.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Greene, B. The Fabric of the Cosmos. 2005.

Physical Science

Greene, B. The Elegant Universe. 1999.

Physical Science

Gregory, R. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. 2004.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Griffin, DR. Animal Minds. 1994.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gross, PR and N Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. 1997.

Philosophy

Guttenplan, S.. A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. 1996.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Harding, DE. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. 2002.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Hare, R.D.. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. 1999.

Mind and Life Sciences

Harris, L. The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hatzfeld, J. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. 2006.

Politics and History

Hauser, M. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Hauser, M. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Heisenberg, W. Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations. 1971.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Hill, F. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 1995.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hirsi Ali, A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hirsi Ali, A.. Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations. 2010.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Hitchens, C. God Is Not Great. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hitchens, C. Letters to a Young Contrarian. 2005.

Politics and History

Hitchens, C.. Hitch-22: A Memoir. 2010.

Politics and History

Hoffmann, R.J. Porphyry’s Against the Christians. 1994.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Hofstadter, D.R. and D.C. Dennett. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections On Self and Soul. 1985.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Holyoak, K.J. (Ed) and Morrison, R.G. (Ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Honderich, T (Ed). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 2005.

Philosophy

Hood, B.M.. SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable. 2009.

Mind and Life Sciences

Hume, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy

Huntington, S.P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. 1998.

Politics and History

Iacoboni, M. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. 2008.

Mind and Life Sciences

Ibrahim, R.. The Al Qaeda Reader. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Jacoby, S. Freethinkers. December 23, 2004.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

James, W. The Will To Believe. 1956.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy

James, W. Essays In Radical Empiricism. 1912.

Philosophy

Jeans, J.. The Mysterious Universe. 1930.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Johnson, P. History of Christianity.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Jungk, R. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. 1970.

Physical Science, Politics and History

Kagan, R.. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. 2008.

Politics and History

Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. 1982.


Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. 1982.

Mind and Life Sciences

Kaku, M. Hyperspace. 1995.

Physical Science

Kandel, E. The Principles of Neural Science. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Kang, C.. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. 2005.

Politics and History

Kant, I.. Ethical Philosophy: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals & Metaphysical Principles of Virtue. 1785.

Philosophy

Kaplan, RD. The Ends of the Earth. 1997.

Politics and History

Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q.. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. 2008.

Mind and Life Sciences

Krakauer, J. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. 2004.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Kramer, H and J Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum. 1489.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Krishnamurti, J. Freedom from the Known. 1975.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Krishnamurti, J. The Awakening of Intelligence. 1987.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Kuhn, TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Philosophy

Kurzweil, R. The Age of Spiritual Machines. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

La Rochefoucauld. Maxims.

Philosophy

Langewiesche, W. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. 2007.

Politics and History

LeDoux, J. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. 2003.

Mind and Life Sciences

Leslie, J. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. 1998.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Levi, P. The Drowned and the Saved. 1989.

Politics and History

Levy, N.. Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2007.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Lewis, B. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. 2004.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Lewis, B. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. 2003.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Llinas, R.R.. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Mackay, C. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. 1841.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Mackie, J.L.. Ethics : Inventing Right and Wrong. 1977.

Philosophy

Manchester, W. A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance. 1993.

Politics and History

Marks, C.E.. Commissurotomy, Consciousness, and Unity of Mind. 1981.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Mates, B. Ed. and Trans. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. 1996.

Philosophy

McDermott, T. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It. 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

McGinn, C. The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

McIntyre, L. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human. September 1, 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

McKenna, T. The Archaic Revival. 1992.

Philosophy

McKenna, T. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. 1993.

Philosophy

McKenna, T. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in Devil’s Paradise. 1993.

Philosophy

Medawar, P. The Threat and the Glory (Reflections on Science and Scientists). 1990.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Mele, A.R. Self-Deception Unmasked. 2001.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Merleau-Ponty, M.. The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays. 1964.

Philosophy

Metzinger, T. Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. 2003.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Metzinger, T (Ed). Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Mill, J.S.. Utilitarianism. 1863.

Philosophy

Miller, W.I. Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence. 1993.

Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History

Miller, W.I. The Anatomy of Disgust. 1998.

Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History

Miller, W.I. Faking It. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History

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