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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Darin Hammond (11 Lists)



How the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsConsciousness Explained by Daniel C. DennettThe Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
Best Cognitive Science Books
421 books — 518 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusHamlet by William ShakespeareSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Existential Fiction
462 books — 785 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven PinkerHow the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,345 books — 1,522 voters
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
Human Behavior or Evolutionary Psychology
59 books — 60 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. DennettHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Evolutionary Psychology
236 books — 97 voters
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Notable Atheist Books
585 books — 998 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Atheist Fiction
146 books — 33 voters
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
Works of Literary Criticism
468 books — 109 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
929 books — 2,387 voters
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHamlet by William ShakespeareFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Philosophical Literature
1,204 books — 2,843 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFaust, and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Get Smart!
257 books — 118 voters