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Sam Harris Website Recommendations: Part 1
1.
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by:
Francis Crick
3.77 avg rating β 923 ratings
2.
Confessions
by:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.59 avg rating β 9,158 ratings
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.89 avg rating β 12,827 ratings
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Breakdown of Will
by:
George Ainslie
4.22 avg rating β 126 ratings
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Crowds and Power
by:
Elias Canetti
4.07 avg rating β 2,054 ratings
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
by:
David J. Chalmers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,439 ratings
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Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
by:
Alan M. Dershowitz
3.68 avg rating β 120 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.11 avg rating β 9,953 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
4.07 avg rating β 16,863 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.90 avg rating β 8,569 ratings
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The Case for Israel
by:
Alan M. Dershowitz
3.79 avg rating β 2,621 ratings
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Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (A Bradford Book)
by:
Lee McIntyre
3.28 avg rating β 36 ratings
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The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
by:
Alessandro Barbero
3.95 avg rating β 964 ratings
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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
by:
William Langewiesche
3.62 avg rating β 395 ratings
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Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition
by:
JoaquΓn M. Fuster
4.39 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
3.76 avg rating β 2,740 ratings
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by:
Samuel P. Huntington
3.78 avg rating β 13,748 ratings
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
by:
Ray Kurzweil
3.90 avg rating β 4,610 ratings
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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by:
Bernard Lewis
3.69 avg rating β 3,470 ratings
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Bertrand Russell : The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921
by:
Ray Monk
4.16 avg rating β 152 ratings
21.
The Anatomy of Disgust
by:
William Ian Miller
3.79 avg rating β 219 ratings
22.
The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History
by:
Terence McKenna
4.18 avg rating β 2,303 ratings
23.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating β 25,079 ratings
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Atheism: The Case Against God
by:
George H. Smith
3.94 avg rating β 3,852 ratings
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The Construction of Social Reality
by:
John Rogers Searle
3.90 avg rating β 933 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.15 avg rating β 23,340 ratings
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980
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Richard Rorty
4.04 avg rating β 252 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,872 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.89 avg rating β 2,769 ratings
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Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
by:
Lee M. Silver
4.04 avg rating β 69 ratings
31.
An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind
by:
Ian Glynn
4.13 avg rating β 71 ratings
32.
Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings
by:
Erving Goffman
4.05 avg rating β 302 ratings
33.
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
by:
Thomas Metzinger
4.13 avg rating β 215 ratings
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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
by:
Kip S. Thorne
4.23 avg rating β 13,357 ratings
35.
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
by:
FranΓ§ois de La Rochefoucauld
4.03 avg rating β 4,314 ratings
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
by:
James Carroll
4.10 avg rating β 2,306 ratings
37.
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
by:
David S. Wyman
4.16 avg rating β 244 ratings
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Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey
by:
V.S. Naipaul
3.86 avg rating β 2,457 ratings
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Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
by:
Donald R. Griffin
3.98 avg rating β 88 ratings
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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
by:
Alexander N. Yakovlev
3.81 avg rating β 114 ratings
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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
by:
Susan Blackmore
4.02 avg rating β 2,006 ratings
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
by:
Robert Jungk
4.29 avg rating β 626 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by:
William Styron
3.99 avg rating β 30,922 ratings
44.
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.99 avg rating β 4,642 ratings
45.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by:
Robert Nozick
3.75 avg rating β 5,918 ratings
46.
Civilization and Its Discontents
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.79 avg rating β 43,515 ratings
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
by:
Stephen Batchelor
4.01 avg rating β 9,941 ratings
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
by:
Kang Chol-Hwan
4.11 avg rating β 11,222 ratings
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
by:
Simon Critchley
3.60 avg rating β 1,166 ratings
50.
The Anatomy of Evil
by:
Michael H. Stone
3.91 avg rating β 2,462 ratings
51.
The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System
by:
Tirupattur Ramaseshayyer Venkatachala Murti
3.92 avg rating β 48 ratings
52.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
by:
Erich Fromm
4.24 avg rating β 3,277 ratings
53.
A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind
by:
Samuel Guttenplan
3.47 avg rating β 19 ratings
54.
The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
by:
Keith J. Holyoak
4.43 avg rating β 28 ratings
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The Al Qaeda Reader: The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden's Terrorist Organization
by:
Raymond Ibrahim
3.94 avg rating β 190 ratings
56.
Commissurotomy, Consciousness, and Unity of Mind (Bradford Books)
by:
Charles E. Marks
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
57.
The Concept of Mind
by:
Gilbert Ryle
3.93 avg rating β 1,747 ratings
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Autobiography
by:
Bertrand Russell
4.07 avg rating β 1,399 ratings
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Companion to Clinical Neurology
by:
William Pryse-Phillips
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
60.
Being and Nothingness
by:
Jean-Paul Sartre
3.99 avg rating β 34,132 ratings
61.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by:
Edward O. Wilson
3.98 avg rating β 4,953 ratings
62.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
by:
B.R. Myers
3.91 avg rating β 2,075 ratings
63.
Cities on a Hill
by:
Frances FitzGerald
4.02 avg rating β 130 ratings
64.
The Book of J
by:
Harold Bloom
3.77 avg rating β 748 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,142 ratings
66.
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
by:
Michael Shermer
3.93 avg rating β 7,618 ratings
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Among the Thugs
by:
Bill Buford
4.12 avg rating β 10,153 ratings
68.
The Complete Essays
by:
Michel de Montaigne
4.23 avg rating β 21,556 ratings
69.
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume III: Text
by:
Robert Burton
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
70.
Critique of Pure Reason
by:
Immanuel Kant
3.96 avg rating β 40,918 ratings
71.
The Art of War
by:
Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating β 550,622 ratings
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The Character of Physical Law
by:
Richard P. Feynman
4.30 avg rating β 7,712 ratings
73.
The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized
by:
Owen J. Flanagan
3.72 avg rating β 301 ratings
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by:
Dean Buonomano
3.80 avg rating β 2,873 ratings
75.
A Brief History of Time
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.21 avg rating β 467,027 ratings
76.
The Awakening of Intelligence
by:
J. Krishnamurti
4.39 avg rating β 1,860 ratings
77.
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
by:
Stephen Batchelor
3.91 avg rating β 4,572 ratings
78.
Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
by:
Larry Rosenberg
4.35 avg rating β 952 ratings
79.
10% Happier
by:
Dan Harris
3.91 avg rating β 113,432 ratings
80.
The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right
by:
Andrew Sullivan
3.75 avg rating β 438 ratings
81.
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
by:
Primo Levi
4.60 avg rating β 154 ratings
82.
The Case Against Sugar
by:
Gary Taubes
3.84 avg rating β 10,991 ratings
83.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
by:
Richard J. Herrnstein
3.60 avg rating β 3,433 ratings
84.
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by:
David Deutsch
4.17 avg rating β 9,238 ratings
85.
The Art of Modern Gunfighting
by:
Scott Reitz
4.04 avg rating β 47 ratings
86.
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
by:
Adrian Raine
3.96 avg rating β 1,937 ratings
87.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by:
Mason Currey
3.65 avg rating β 20,652 ratings
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
by:
Nicholas A. Christakis
3.74 avg rating β 4,067 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by:
Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating β 14,178 ratings
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating β 5,642 ratings
91.
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
by:
Joseph Romm
4.22 avg rating β 687 ratings
92.
Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
by:
Francis-Noel Thomas
4.14 avg rating β 455 ratings
93.
Churchill
by:
Paul Johnson
3.77 avg rating β 5,906 ratings
94.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by:
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.39 avg rating β 29,594 ratings
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.64 avg rating β 2,195 ratings
96.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.08 avg rating β 199,992 ratings
97.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by:
Stuart Russell
4.20 avg rating β 4,386 ratings
98.
Animal Liberation
by:
Peter Singer
4.30 avg rating β 11,080 ratings
99.
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
by:
Daniel Goleman
3.91 avg rating β 5,680 ratings
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
by:
Paul Bloom
3.58 avg rating β 6,317 ratings