almost all of the books in Rationally Speaking
1. 
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
by:
Julia Galef
4.10 avg rating — 6,536 ratings 
3. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,375 ratings 
8. 
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by:
Tim Harford
4.12 avg rating — 7,930 ratings 
12. 
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America 3.55 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
13. 
Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement
by:
Buster Benson
3.60 avg rating — 1,072 ratings 14. 
Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
by:
Garett Jones
3.56 avg rating — 331 ratings 15. 
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
by:
Bryan Caplan
4.10 avg rating — 3,382 ratings 16. 
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
18. 
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
by:
James Q. Wilson
4.01 avg rating — 569 ratings 
22. 
Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
by:
Alan Page Fiske
3.89 avg rating — 76 ratings 
25. 
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by:
Clive Thompson
3.97 avg rating — 2,729 ratings 26. 
27. 
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by:
Evan Osnos
4.25 avg rating — 8,718 ratings 28. 
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
by:
John Pomfret
4.30 avg rating — 541 ratings 29. 
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by:
James C. Scott
4.13 avg rating — 4,579 ratings 31. 
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
by:
Graham Allison
4.20 avg rating — 7,032 ratings 32. 
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 3.60 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
33. 
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
by:
Franklin Perkins
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings 34. 
Do Colors Exist?: And Other Profound Physics Questions
by:
Seth Cottrell
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings 35. 
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
by:
Rob Reich
3.74 avg rating — 378 ratings 
37. 
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
38. 
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws And Consequences (Great Minds Series)
by:
Francis Galton
3.26 avg rating — 61 ratings 39. 
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.18 avg rating — 929 ratings 
43. 
Incerto (Deluxe Edition): Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game 4.57 avg rating — 475 ratings
44. 
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
by:
Annie Duke
3.82 avg rating — 21,789 ratings 45. 
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
by:
Alison Gopnik
3.85 avg rating — 1,631 ratings 46. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,752 ratings 47. 
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The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by:
Bryan Caplan
3.95 avg rating — 2,006 ratings 
53. 
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
by:
Timur Kuran
4.16 avg rating — 257 ratings 54. 
Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
by:
Edward Russo
3.88 avg rating — 121 ratings 
56. 
57. 
Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings
58. 
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything 3.94 avg rating — 5,855 ratings
59. 
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
by:
Robert Wright
4.02 avg rating — 25,759 ratings 
62. 
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science 3.74 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
63. 
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.91 avg rating — 42,045 ratings
64. 
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by:
Robert Kurzban
3.95 avg rating — 863 ratings 
66. 
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,191 ratings 67. 
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 68. 
70. 
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by:
Gregory Clark
3.75 avg rating — 1,276 ratings 
72. 
When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
by:
David D. Burns
4.13 avg rating — 2,566 ratings 
75. 
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating — 5,134 ratings 76. 
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
by:
Diana C. Mutz
3.87 avg rating — 83 ratings 
78. 
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
James C. Scott
4.14 avg rating — 1,349 ratings 
80. 
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.73 avg rating — 10,296 ratings
81. 
82. 
Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
by:
Stephen Cave
3.89 avg rating — 594 ratings 83. 
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
by:
Samuel Arbesman
3.52 avg rating — 590 ratings 
86. 
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
by:
Robert H. Frank
3.70 avg rating — 1,221 ratings 
89. 
The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to René Descartes
by:
Andrea Nye
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 90. 
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by:
Sean Carroll
4.18 avg rating — 9,960 ratings 91. 
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
by:
James P. Carse
3.74 avg rating — 7,345 ratings 92. 
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating — 34,102 ratings 93. 
The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique
by:
Kim Sterelny
4.18 avg rating — 57 ratings 
95. 
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable 4.12 avg rating — 208 ratings
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97. 
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by:
Thomas Gilovich
3.95 avg rating — 3,155 ratings 
99. 
Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind 3.88 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
