Books Recommended By Sam Harris
American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, and podcast host.
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2006)
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Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence by William Ian Miller (1993)
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The Last Word by Thomas Nagel (1996)
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld (2003)
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006)
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Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit (1984)
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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm (1990)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
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What is Man? by Mark Twain (1905)
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski (2017)
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1996)
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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding (1961)
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Cortex and Mind by Joaquin M. Fuster (2002)
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (2009)
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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor (2010)
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor (1997)
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman (2000)
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (1999)
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The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan (1996)
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Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life by Lee M. Silver (2006)
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene (2003)
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Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel (1981)
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer (2001)
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Ethics In The Real World
82 Brief Essays On Things That Matter by Peter Singer |
Churchill Paul Johnson
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Coming Apart The State Of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles A. Murray
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer (2006)
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
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A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination by Edelman, G. & Tononi, G.
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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev
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The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie
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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives by Dean Buonomano
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Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History by James Carroll
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The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
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The End of Illness by David B. Agus
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The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga (2005)
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Honor: A History by James Bowman (2006)
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays by Willard Van Orman Quine (1953)
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Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power by John Rogers Searle (2005)
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Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
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The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (1982)
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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (1999)
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard M. Rorty (1982)
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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1912)
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Scepticism and Animal Faith by George Santayana (1923)
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat (2013)
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The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller (1997)
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
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Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel (1979)
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark (2012)
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky (2017)
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood (2016)
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (2017)
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherje
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
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The Conservative Soul: The Politics of Human Difference by Andrew Sullivan
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright
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Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
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In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
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The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
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Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
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The Road to Character by David Brooks
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
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Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by David Benatar
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
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Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine
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Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noel Thomas
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Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference by William MacAskill
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One Soldier's War In Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
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Connected The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
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Islam In The World by Malise Ruthven (1984)
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Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalyrmple
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper (1934)
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Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie
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#Republic Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein
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Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
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Essays Michel de Montaigne
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes
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The Phenomenology of the Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2004)
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Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
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The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 by William James
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
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Looking for Spinoza Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
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Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Story of Art by E.H Gombrich
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Descartes Error Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (2014)
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The Feeling of What Happens Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
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The View From Nowhere by Thomas Nagel
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The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
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The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
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Inquisition by Edward Peters
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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945)
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Against Empathy The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
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Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)
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Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
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The Paradox of Choice Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
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The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley (2003)
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Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj by Nisargadatta Maharaj (1973)
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Freedom from the Unknown by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (2007)
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About:
Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American author, philosopher, critic of religion, blogger, public intellectual, and podcast host. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind, politics, Islamism, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. He is described as one of the atheistic "Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse", along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett. BIBLIOGRAPHY (BY POPULARITY)
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