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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.
Friedrich, O. The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945. 1994.
Fromm, E.. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. 1992.
Fuster, J.M. Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition. 2005.
Gazzaniga, M. The Ethical Brain. 2005.
Gazzaniga, M. The MInd’s Past. 2000.
Gazzaniga, M.S.. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique. 2009.
Gilbert, D.. Stumbling on Happiness. 2007.
Gilbert, M. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. 1985.
Gilpin Faust, D.. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. 2008.
Glover, J. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. 2001.
Glynn, I. An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind. 2003.
Goffman, E. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 1959.
Goffman, E. Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. 1982.
Goffman, E. Behavior in Public Places. 1966.
Goldberg, E. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. 2002.
Goldberg, M. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. April 9, 2007.
Goldhagen, DJ. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. 1997.
Goldstein, J. Experience of Insight. 1987.
Gorenberg, G. The End of Days. March 15, 2002.
Greene, B. The Fabric of the Cosmos. 2005.
Greene, B. The Elegant Universe. 1999.
Gregory, R. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. 2004.
Griffin, DR. Animal Minds. 1994.
Gross, PR and N Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. 1997.
Guttenplan, S.. A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. 1996.
Harding, DE. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. 2002.
Hare, R.D.. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. 1999.
Harris, L. The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West. 2007.
Hatzfeld, J. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. 2006.
Hauser, M. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. 2006.
Hauser, M. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. 2000.
Heisenberg, W. Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations. 1971.
Hill, F. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 1995.
Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel. 2007.
Hirsi Ali, A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. 2006.
Hirsi Ali, A.. Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations. 2010.
Hitchens, C. God Is Not Great. 2007.
Hitchens, C. Letters to a Young Contrarian. 2005.
Hitchens, C.. Hitch-22: A Memoir. 2010.
Hoffmann, R.J. Porphyry’s Against the Christians. 1994.
Hofstadter, D.R. and D.C. Dennett. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections On Self and Soul. 1985.
Holyoak, K.J. (Ed) and Morrison, R.G. (Ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. 2005.
Honderich, T (Ed). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 2005.
Hood, B.M.. SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable. 2009.
Hume, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
Huntington, S.P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. 1998.
Iacoboni, M. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. 2008.
Ibrahim, R.. The Al Qaeda Reader. 2007.
Jacoby, S. Freethinkers. December 23, 2004.
James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.
James, W. The Will To Believe. 1956.
James, W. Essays In Radical Empiricism. 1912.
Jeans, J.. The Mysterious Universe. 1930.
Johnson, P. History of Christianity.
Jungk, R. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. 1970.
Kagan, R.. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. 2008.
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.
Kaku, M. Hyperspace. 1995.
Kandel, E. The Principles of Neural Science. 2000.
Kang, C.. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. 2005.
Kant, I.. Ethical Philosophy: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals & Metaphysical Principles of Virtue. 1785.
Kaplan, RD. The Ends of the Earth. 1997.
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q.. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. 2008.
Krakauer, J. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. 2004.
Kramer, H and J Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum. 1489.
Krishnamurti, J. Freedom from the Known. 1975.
Krishnamurti, J. The Awakening of Intelligence. 1987.
Kuhn, TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Kurzweil, R. The Age of Spiritual Machines. 2000.
La Rochefoucauld. Maxims.
Langewiesche, W. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. 2007.
LeDoux, J. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. 2003.
Leslie, J. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. 1998.
Levi, P. The Drowned and the Saved. 1989.
Levy, N.. Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2007.
Lewis, B. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. 2004.
Lewis, B. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. 2003.
Llinas, R.R.. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. 2002.
Mackay, C. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. 1841.
Mackie, J.L.. Ethics : Inventing Right and Wrong. 1977.
Manchester, W. A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance. 1993.
Marks, C.E.. Commissurotomy, Consciousness, and Unity of Mind. 1981.
Mates, B. Ed. and Trans. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. 1996.
McDermott, T. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It. 2006.
McGinn, C. The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. 2000.
McIntyre, L. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human. September 1, 2006.
McKenna, T. The Archaic Revival. 1992.
McKenna, T. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. 1993.
McKenna, T. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in Devil’s Paradise. 1993.
Medawar, P. The Threat and the Glory (Reflections on Science and Scientists). 1990.
Mele, A.R. Self-Deception Unmasked. 2001.
Merleau-Ponty, M.. The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays. 1964.
Metzinger, T. Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. 2003.
Metzinger, T (Ed). Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions. 2000.
Mill, J.S.. Utilitarianism. 1863.
Miller, W.I. Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence. 1993.
Miller, W.I. The Anatomy of Disgust. 1998.
Miller, W.I. Faking It. 2005.
