Theory of Knowledge or T.O.K. List
1. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,333 ratings 2. 
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
by:
Karl Popper
4.19 avg rating — 1,750 ratings 
5. 
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 3.87 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
7. 
The econocracy: The perils of leaving economics to the experts
by:
Joe Earle
3.84 avg rating — 313 ratings 
8. 
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating — 106,843 ratings 
13. 
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military 3.65 avg rating — 4,948 ratings
14. 
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
by:
Lesley Hazleton
4.09 avg rating — 9,410 ratings 15. 
16. 
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
by:
David Lipsky
3.93 avg rating — 9,267 ratings 17. 
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
by:
Peter Singer
4.30 avg rating — 11,081 ratings 
20. 
The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence (New York Review Books Classics)
by:
D.H. Lawrence
3.77 avg rating — 73 ratings 20. 
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
by:
Matt Taibbi
3.93 avg rating — 3,603 ratings 22. 
The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism
by:
John Stuart Mill
4.11 avg rating — 351 ratings 
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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 — 53,306 ratings 
27. 
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by:
Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings 
30. 
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial 3.50 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
32. 
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
by:
Ken Robinson
4.10 avg rating — 4,084 ratings 32. 
True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
by:
Cindy L. Otis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,026 ratings 34. 
Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
by:
Andrew Keen
3.42 avg rating — 389 ratings 34. 
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
by:
Nina Jankowicz
3.98 avg rating — 387 ratings 
36. 
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
by:
Michael Shermer
3.97 avg rating — 3,510 ratings 
36. 
Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness
by:
Igor Aleksander
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 41. 
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
by:
Peter Singer
3.93 avg rating — 4,795 ratings 41. 
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by:
Michel Foucault
4.12 avg rating — 9,486 ratings 
43. 
Philosophy Made Simple: A Complete Guide to the World's Most Important Thinkers and Theories 3.73 avg rating — 441 ratings
45. 
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs 3.72 avg rating — 496 ratings
48. 
Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study
by:
Tom Chatfield
4.09 avg rating — 216 ratings 
51. 
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
by:
Linda M. Scott
4.29 avg rating — 577 ratings 51. 
51. 
The Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly
by:
Philip Mudd
3.63 avg rating — 172 ratings 55. 
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
by:
Rachel Cooke
3.38 avg rating — 308 ratings 
55. 
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
by:
Matthew Syed
4.28 avg rating — 14,011 ratings 
58. 
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
by:
Julia Shaw
3.93 avg rating — 2,223 ratings 58. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,752 ratings 58. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by:
Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,885 ratings 62. 
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
by:
Jim Al-Khalili
3.95 avg rating — 1,478 ratings 
62. 
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by:
Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,581 ratings 
65. 
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.96 avg rating — 9,781 ratings 65. 
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley 3.71 avg rating — 13,520 ratings
69. 
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
by:
Julia Galef
4.10 avg rating — 6,536 ratings 69. 
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
by:
Michael Shermer
3.99 avg rating — 5,430 ratings 71. 
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe
by:
Johnjoe McFadden
3.92 avg rating — 287 ratings 
71. 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.05 avg rating — 27,035 ratings 
75. 
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by:
Kim Ghattas
4.40 avg rating — 5,436 ratings 
76. 
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
by:
Stephen Grosz
3.94 avg rating — 17,273 ratings 
79. 
The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art
by:
Tom McLeish
3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings 80. 
Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
by:
Lesley Hazleton
3.85 avg rating — 479 ratings 
80. 
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,237 ratings
84. 
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by:
Mario Livio
3.80 avg rating — 6,219 ratings 86. 
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf 3.96 avg rating — 353 ratings
87. 
Learning to Flourish: A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
87. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,690 ratings
87. 
The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things
by:
Surendra Verma
3.80 avg rating — 105 ratings 90. 
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
by:
David Eagleman
4.16 avg rating — 4,960 ratings 91. 
The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse 3.96 avg rating — 351 ratings
92. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,307 ratings 
99. 
Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World
by:
Amy Wolff
4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings 