metaculture Top 100
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
by
Bobby Azarian
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by
Edward O. Wilson
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by
Carl Sagan
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by
Jonathan Haidt
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
How the Mind Works
by
Steven Pinker
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
by
Michael Pollan
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
by
Sogyal Rinpoche
Tao Te Ching
by
Lao Tzu
The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
by
Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by
Thomas S. Kuhn
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by
Edward S. Herman
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by
Jonathan Haidt
1984
by
George Orwell
Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
A Brief History of Time
by
Stephen Hawking
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by
Bill Bryson
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism
by
Gregory Stock
Chaos: Making a New Science
by
James Gleick
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
by
Neil Theise
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
by
Sam Harris
Done: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion
by
Daryl R. Van Tongeren
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
by
Andrew B. Newberg
Sex, God, and the Brain: How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot More
by
Andrew B. Newberg
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by
Camille Paglia
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by
Michael Pollan
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
by
Terence McKenna
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by
Steven Pinker
Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
by
Saul Perlmutter
The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions-More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete
by
Ken Wilber
Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence
by
A. Severan
Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World
by
Brendan Graham Dempsey
The Selfish Gene
by
Richard Dawkins
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by
Daniel C. Dennett
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by
Sam Harris
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
by
Max Solomon Bennett
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
by
Paul Bloom
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by
Douglas Adams
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
by
Jamil Zaki
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by
Steven Pinker
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by
António Damásio
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain
by
Patricia S. Churchland
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by
Daniel C. Dennett
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by
Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Man’s Search for Meaning
by
Viktor E. Frankl
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit
by
Donald Kalsched
I Am a Strange Loop
by
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by
Steven Pinker
The Society of Mind
by
Marvin Minsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Free Will
by
Sam Harris
The Emperor's New Mind
by
Roger Penrose
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by
Steven Pinker
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
by
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by
Jonathan Haidt
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
by
Michael Schur
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by
Edwin A. Abbott
Games: Agency As Art
by
C. Thi Nguyen
The Happiness Project
by
Gretchen Rubin
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by
Adam Smith
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by
Karl Marx
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by
Anonymous
Ishmael
by
Daniel Quinn
The Story of B
by
Daniel Quinn
No Logo
by
Naomi Klein
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
by
Naomi Klein
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
by
Derek Beres
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
by
Amanda Montell
The Way Things Ought to Be
by
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
by
Al Franken
Making Sense
by
Sam Harris
Doubt: A History
by
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by
Bertrand Russell
The God Delusion
by
Richard Dawkins
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by
Christopher Hitchens
Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
by
Slavoj Žižek
How to Win Friends & Influence People
by
Dale Carnegie
Utilitarianism
by
John Stuart Mill
Civilization and Its Discontents
by
Sigmund Freud
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by
Steven D. Levitt
Atlas Shrugged
by
Ayn Rand
Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell
by
Aldous Huxley
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by
Robert M. Pirsig
Cryptonomicon
by
Neal Stephenson
I, Robot
by
Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land
by
Robert A. Heinlein
Fahrenheit 451
by
Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
Siddhartha
by
Hermann Hesse
The Stranger
by
Albert Camus
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Celestine Prophecy
by
James Redfield
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by
Carlos Castenada
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by
Hunter S. Thompson
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