Send to Printer

djcurly's "Essential Human Behavior Books"

A working list of essential books about human behavior.

1. The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
 
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
 
3. How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
 
4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
 
5. An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
 
6. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
 
7. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker
 
8. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
 
9. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
 
10. The Blind Watchmaker (Penguin Science)
by Richard Dawkins
 
11. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
 
12. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
 
13. Consciousness Explained
by Daniel C. Dennett
 
14. Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering & Computer Science)
by Aaron Lynch
 
15. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
 
This is djcurly's list. Only djcurly can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by djcurly on Oct 22, 2006.