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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.
Miller, W.I.. Eye for an Eye. 2007.
Mlodinow, L.. The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. 2009.
Monk, R. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. 1990.
Monk, R. Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. 1996.
Montaigne. The Complete Works of Montaigne. 1943.
Murti, TRV. Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of Madhyamika System. 1955.
Myers, B.R.. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. 2010.
Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness. 1999.
Nagel, T. Mortal Questions. 1991.
Nagel, T. The View From Nowhere. 1989.
Nagel, T. Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994. 1995.
Nagel, T. The Last Word. 2001.
Naipaul, VS. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. 1982.
Nelson, T (Ed). The Bible. 1999.
Nietzsche, F. The Portable Nietzsche. 1977.
Nisargadatta Maharaj. I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. 1973.
Norretranders, T.. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. 1999.
Norris, P. and Inglehart, R.. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. 2004.
Nozick, R. Philosophical Explanations. 1981.
Nozick, R.. Anarchy, State, And Utopia. 1974.
Nuland, S.B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. 1995.
O'Brien, C.C. On the Eve of Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason. 1995.
Oliver A. M. and Steinberg P. F. The Road To Martyr’s Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber. 2006.
Parfit, D.. Reasons and Persons. 1986.
Paulos, JA. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up. 2007.
Pelikan, J. Jesus Through the Centuries. 1997.
Penrose, R. The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. 1989.
Penrose, R. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. 2000.
Penrose, R.. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. 1996.
Perry, J.. Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness. 2003.
Peters, E. Inquisition. 1988.
Phillips, K. American Theocracy. 2006.
Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. 2003.
Pinker, S.. How the Mind Works. 1997.
Planck, M. Where Is Science Going?. 1981.
Popper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Popper, K. R., & Eccles, J. C. . The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism. 1977.
Popper, K.R.. The Open Society and Its Enemies. 2002.
Poundstone, W. Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. 1989.
Poundstone, W. Prisoner’s Dilemma. 1993.
Pryse-Phillips, W.. Companion to Clinical Neurology. 2009.
Quine, W.V. From A Logical Point of View. 1953.
Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, S. Phantoms in the Brain. 1998.
Ramana Maharshi. Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. 1955.
Rawls, J.. A Theory of Justice: Original Edition. 2005.
Rawls, J.. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. 2001.
Rees, M. Our Final Hour. 2003.
Reynolds, JM (Ed). Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness. 1988.
Rhodes, R. Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague. 1997.
Ridley, M. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. 1999.
Ridley, M. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. 2003.
Rorty, R. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers. 1991.
Rorty, R. The Consequences of Pragmatism. 1982.
Rosenberg, L. Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation. 2004.
Rosenthal, D. The Nature of Mind. 1991.
Russell, B. Why I am Not a Christian.. October 30, 1967.
Russell, B. History of Western Philosophy. 1945.
Russell, B. The Problems of Philosophy. 1912.
Russell, B. Religion and Science. 1935.
Russell, B.. Autobiography. 2009.
Ruthven, M. Islam in the World. 2000.
Ryle, G.. The Concept of Mind. 1949.
Sacks, O. An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. 1995.
Sacks, O. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. 1970.
Sagan, C. The Varieties of Scientific Experience. November 2, 2006.
Sagan, C.. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. 1995.
Sagan, C. and Druyan A. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. 1992.
Sandler, L. Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth. September 7, 2006.
Santayana, G. Persons and Places: The Background of My Life. 1963.
Santayana, G. Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy. 1923.
Sartre, J.P.. Being And Nothingness. 1956.
Schacter, D.L. and Scarry, E.. Memory, Brain, and Belief. 2001.
Schell, J. The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction. 2001.
Schell, J. The Fate of the Earth. 1982.
Schell, J. The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. 2007.
Schlosser, E. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market. 2003.
Schrödinger, E. What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”. 1967.
Schrodinger, E. My View of the World. 1961.
Schwartz, B.. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. 2004.
Searle, J. Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power. 2006.
Searle, J.R. The Mystery of Consciousness. 1997.
Searle, J.R. The Construction of Social Reality. 1995.
Searle, J.R. The Rediscovery of the Mind. 1992.
Sereny, G. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience. January 12, 1983.
Shankaracharya. Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination. 1970.
Shanks, N. God the Devil, and Darwin.. December 10, 2003.
Shermer, M. Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. 2006.
Shoebat, W.. Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat It. 2007.
Silver, LM. Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life. 2006.
Singer, P. Writings on an Ethical Life. 2000.
Singer, P.. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. 2009.
Smith, A. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 1759.
Smith, G.H. Atheism: The Case Against God. June 1980.
Smolin, L.. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. 2002.
Solomon, A. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. 2002.
Solzhenitsyn, A. The Gulag Archipelago. 2002.
Spinoza, B.. The Ethics and Selected Letters. 1677.
Stenger, V. God: The Failed Hypothesis.. January 25, 2007.
Stenger, V.. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. 2009.
Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. 1989.
