Steven Pinker

The Evolution of Human Sexuality

by Donald Symons

Adaptation and Natural Selection

by George C. Williams

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

by Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose

by Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

The Psychology of Communication

by George Miller

Language and Mind

by Noam Chomsky

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum

Words and Things: An Introduction to Language

by Roger Brown

The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage

by Theodore Bernstein

One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

by George Gamow

Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

by Colin McGinn

Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

by Daniel C. Dennett

Plato at the Googleplex

by Rebecca Goldstein

The Last Word

by Thomas Nagel

Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information

by David Marr

The Sciences of the Artificial

by Herbert Simon

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

by Judith Rich Harris

Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

by Nancy Etcoff

The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap

by Susan Pinker

The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters

by Susan Pinker

The Strategy of Conflict

by Thomas Schelling

Principles of Psychology

by William James

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

by Johan Norberg

The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People

by Michael Shermer

Right Ho, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century

by Ron Bailey

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

by Ruth DeFries

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Stephen Radelet

Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

by Stewart Brand

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City

by David Courtwright

A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem

by James Payne

The Remnants of War

by John Mueller

A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security

by John Mueller

Retreat from Doomsday

by John Mueller

The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer

by Jonathan Gottschall

Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

by Joshua Goldstein

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior

by Martin Daly & Margo Wilson

Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements

by Matthew White

Yanomamo: The Fierce People

by Napoleon Chagnon

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

by Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

by Roy Baumeister

The Two Cultures

by C. P. Snow

Thinks ...

by David Lodge

1984

by George Orwell

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

The Iliad

by Homer

Enemies: A Love Story

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

The Mind-Body Problem

by Rebecca Goldstein

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

by Rebecca Goldstein

Properties of Light

by Rebecca Goldstein

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Brazzaville Beach

by WIlliam Boyd

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

by Chris Thomas