Explaining the Mind
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,746 ratings 
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 39,549 ratings 6. 
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
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Daniel Bor
3.90 avg rating — 427 ratings 
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,825 ratings 10. 
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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Rick Hanson
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The Myth of Sanity : Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
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Martha Stout
4.05 avg rating — 956 ratings 
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention 4.07 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life
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David Perlmutter
4.01 avg rating — 8,960 ratings 16. 
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
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Steven Johnson
3.90 avg rating — 5,690 ratings 17. 
Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
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Chris Frith
4.10 avg rating — 1,317 ratings 18. 
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
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Rob Brotherton
3.87 avg rating — 1,497 ratings 19. 
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
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David Perlmutter
3.90 avg rating — 24,270 ratings 
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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R.D. Laing
4.11 avg rating — 6,311 ratings 
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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
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Shankar Vedantam
3.99 avg rating — 2,989 ratings 
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Sean Carroll
4.18 avg rating — 9,959 ratings 32. 
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
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Till Roenneberg
3.70 avg rating — 887 ratings 33. 
God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist's Reflections on the Spirit World 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind
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Arthur Zajonc
4.19 avg rating — 185 ratings 
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In the Mind Fields: Exploring the new science of neuropsychoanalysis
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Casey Schwartz
3.43 avg rating — 173 ratings 
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The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
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Rollo May
4.07 avg rating — 1,085 ratings 43. 
Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,385 ratings
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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Howard Gardner
3.96 avg rating — 2,636 ratings 
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Eric Weiner
3.84 avg rating — 38,202 ratings 
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Alternative Approach to Allergies, An: The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
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Joseph E. LeDoux
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,134 ratings 
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding 4.20 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
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David Keirsey
4.10 avg rating — 9,374 ratings 55. 
Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (Templeton Science and Religion Series) 3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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John J. Ratey
4.13 avg rating — 17,031 ratings 57. 
Understanding Beliefs (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Nils J. Nilsson
3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings 58. 
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
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Daniel G. Amen
3.97 avg rating — 12,806 ratings 
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Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction
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John Brockman
3.69 avg rating — 986 ratings 62. 
Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science: Critical and Constructive Essays
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Fraser Watts
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 63. 
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
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Susan Blackmore
4.02 avg rating — 2,006 ratings 64. 
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind
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Jesse J. Prinz
3.69 avg rating — 240 ratings 65. 
Believing: The Neuroscience of Fantasies, Fears and Convictions
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Michael McGuire
3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings 66. 
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 67. 
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
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Cordelia Fine
3.86 avg rating — 2,707 ratings 
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Caveman Logic: The Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World
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Hank Davis
3.88 avg rating — 115 ratings 70. 
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Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs 3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
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Ted Cadsby
4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings 75. 
The Many Faces of Suicide: Indirect Self-Destructive Behavior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Consciousness in Four Dimensions: Biological Relativity and the Origins of Thought
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Richard M. Pico
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings 75. 
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret Life of the Self 3.58 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
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Clark Elliott
3.81 avg rating — 922 ratings 
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The Grasp Of Consciousness: Action And Concept In The Young Child
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Jean Piaget
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 82. 
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
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Carl Zimmer
3.97 avg rating — 650 ratings 86. 
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings 
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
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Allan H. Ropper
3.98 avg rating — 5,656 ratings 89. 
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
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Gregory Berns
3.97 avg rating — 7,530 ratings 
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults 3.77 avg rating — 5,910 ratings
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Ape Mind, Old Mind, New Mind: Emotional Fossils and the Evolution of the Human Spirit
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John V. Wylie
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings 96. 
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
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Diana Reiss
4.13 avg rating — 401 ratings 96. 
Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
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Amy E. Herman
4.11 avg rating — 2,537 ratings 98. 
Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain 4.08 avg rating — 437 ratings
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50 Museums to Blow Your Mind 1 (50...to Blow Your Mind)
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Ben Handicott
3.09 avg rating — 138 ratings