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How the Mind Works

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Books like How the Mind Works

If you loved How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

No. 2

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

No. 3

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Daniel C. Dennett

No. 4

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Richard Dawkins

No. 5

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Jared Diamond

No. 6

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

No. 7

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

Richard Dawkins

No. 8

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Daniel C. Dennett

No. 9

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

No. 10

Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

No. 11

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

No. 12

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

No. 13

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley

No. 14

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

No. 15

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

No. 16

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

No. 17

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

No. 18

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

No. 19

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

No. 20

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

No. 21

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

No. 22

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

No. 23

Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris

No. 24

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Bertrand Russell, Paul Edwards