Sam Harris' Recommended Reading

1.
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,055 ratings
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,323 ratings
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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment 4.02 avg rating — 25,753 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,711 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 4.07 avg rating — 16,862 ratings
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule 4.16 avg rating — 10,355 ratings
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian 4.13 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 199,983 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating — 129,362 ratings
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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi 4.65 avg rating — 426 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,356 ratings
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Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,036 ratings
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Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah 4.50 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,145 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,799 ratings
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World 4.17 avg rating — 9,238 ratings
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Terror and Liberalism
Terror and Liberalism 3.86 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,554 ratings
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The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception 3.91 avg rating — 73,658 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,105 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 3.85 avg rating — 20,389 ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery 4.03 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
Why Evolution Is True 4.19 avg rating — 25,751 ratings
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon 3.89 avg rating — 12,827 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,749 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter 3.93 avg rating — 4,794 ratings
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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious 3.71 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,903 ratings
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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 4.42 avg rating — 6,839 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 4.29 avg rating — 78,413 ratings
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Freedom from the Known
Freedom from the Known 4.29 avg rating — 11,691 ratings
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Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening 4.38 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
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A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination 4.03 avg rating — 476 ratings
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty 3.77 avg rating — 6,399 ratings
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies 4.11 avg rating — 5,357 ratings
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self 4.10 avg rating — 3,210 ratings
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Thinking and Deciding
Thinking and Deciding 4.06 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind 3.93 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening 4.01 avg rating — 9,940 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,329 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects 4.01 avg rating — 21,974 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 4.09 avg rating — 41,141 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained 3.90 avg rating — 8,569 ratings
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Eating Animals
Eating Animals 4.21 avg rating — 80,065 ratings
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Mindfulness in Plain English
Mindfulness in Plain English 4.15 avg rating — 18,370 ratings
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why 3.93 avg rating — 19,884 ratings
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Terrorist Hunter
Terrorist Hunter
by: Anonymous
4.04 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,558 ratings
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Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History 4.28 avg rating — 12,841 ratings
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,829 ratings
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Why Orwell Matters
Why Orwell Matters 3.95 avg rating — 4,127 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,852 ratings
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Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations 3.95 avg rating — 5,543 ratings
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil 3.71 avg rating — 3,447 ratings
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The Way of the Strangers
The Way of the Strangers 4.14 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons 4.27 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power 4.07 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating — 170,789 ratings
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work 3.65 avg rating — 20,650 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,185 ratings
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Freedom Evolves
Freedom Evolves 3.82 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History 3.54 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism 4.03 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony
Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony 4.06 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Gospel of Lie: A Grieving Christian Searches the Bible for a New Jesus
The Gospel of Lie: A Grieving Christian Searches the Bible for a New Jesus 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Principles of Neural Science
Principles of Neural Science 4.48 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,017 ratings
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation 4.30 avg rating — 11,077 ratings
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 3.96 avg rating — 111,010 ratings
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THE EGO PILL: Why Self-Importance Nourishes US, Only to Devour Us Later
THE EGO PILL: Why Self-Importance Nourishes US, Only to Devour Us Later it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe
Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe 3.58 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Nature of the Physical World
The Nature of the Physical World 3.98 avg rating — 113 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire 3.90 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence 4.18 avg rating — 49,293 ratings
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WHY GOD SLEEPS WHEN WE WAKE-UP
WHY GOD SLEEPS WHEN WE WAKE-UP it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The End of Illness: A New Perspective on Health That Changes Everything
The End of Illness: A New Perspective on Health That Changes Everything 3.48 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Suicide: A Study in Sociology 3.85 avg rating — 4,382 ratings
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Open Secret
Open Secret 4.32 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters 4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings
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Breakdown of Will
Breakdown of Will 4.22 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness 3.66 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Holy Madness: Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, and Enlightenment
Holy Madness: Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, and Enlightenment 3.70 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size 4.31 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right
The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right 3.75 avg rating — 438 ratings
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The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized
The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized 3.72 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 4.65 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge 3.60 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream 4.28 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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The Perennial Philosophy
The Perennial Philosophy 4.12 avg rating — 6,308 ratings
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The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness 3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State 4.03 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama 4.11 avg rating — 2,721 ratings
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Experiments in Ethics
Experiments in Ethics 3.75 avg rating — 263 ratings
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10% Happier
10% Happier 3.91 avg rating — 113,427 ratings
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest 4.08 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom
Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom 4.46 avg rating — 101 ratings
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