Sober Provocations and Perspectives
4. 
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by:
Charles Murray
4.04 avg rating — 854 ratings 5. 
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 3.60 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings 7. 
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by:
Ross Douthat
3.77 avg rating — 2,472 ratings 8. 
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
by:
Matt Ridley
4.11 avg rating — 3,360 ratings 9. 
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by:
Gregory Clark
3.75 avg rating — 1,276 ratings 9. 
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by:
Gregory Clark
3.96 avg rating — 487 ratings 
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Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
by:
Mike James Ross
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings 14. 
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.14 avg rating — 5,853 ratings 
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by:
Geoffrey B. West
4.11 avg rating — 5,360 ratings 18. 
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.14 avg rating — 5,263 ratings 20. 
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.12 avg rating — 2,718 ratings 21. 
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating — 5,643 ratings 
23. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 24. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 25. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,749 ratings 
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When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
by:
David M. Buss
4.09 avg rating — 858 ratings 28. 
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
by:
Carole Hooven
4.02 avg rating — 1,671 ratings 
32. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,884 ratings 
37. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating — 885,851 ratings 38. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,655 ratings 39. 
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
by:
Amy Chua
4.20 avg rating — 4,007 ratings 40. 
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
by:
Jonah Goldberg
4.02 avg rating — 1,600 ratings 41. 
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
by:
Jonah Goldberg
3.95 avg rating — 6,004 ratings 42. 
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
by:
Jonah Goldberg
4.05 avg rating — 2,573 ratings 43. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,066 ratings 44. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings 45. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,335 ratings 46. 
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by:
Francis Fukuyama
3.51 avg rating — 570 ratings 48. 
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.18 avg rating — 10,199 ratings 49. 
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
by:
Francis Fukuyama
3.85 avg rating — 6,395 ratings 50. 
51. 
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 
53. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 54. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,647 ratings 
58. 
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by:
Harold Bloom
3.87 avg rating — 3,559 ratings 
65. 
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity
by:
Thomas C. Foster
3.71 avg rating — 593 ratings 
68. 
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.65 avg rating — 4,222 ratings 69. 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating — 30,150 ratings 70. 
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by:
Camille Paglia
3.99 avg rating — 3,554 ratings 
75. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,500 ratings 76. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,145 ratings 77. 
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by:
Sam Harris
3.90 avg rating — 24,024 ratings 78. 
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by:
Max Tegmark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,833 ratings 
82. 
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve 4.25 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
85. 
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.23 avg rating — 53,298 ratings 86. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,330 ratings 
88. 
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating — 3,970 ratings 89. 
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating — 2,081 ratings 
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In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence
by:
Russell T. Warne
4.48 avg rating — 121 ratings 94. 
On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
by:
Frank K. Salter
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
97. 
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
by:
Helen Pluckrose
4.11 avg rating — 5,797 ratings 
