What to Read After The Language Instinct
Readers who loved The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Language Instinct is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Language Instinct
UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE.
Empires of the Word
The Power of Babel
The First Word
Le Ton beau de Marot
How the Mind Works
How language works
The Stuff of Thought
The Blank Slate
The Symbolic Species
Consciousness explained
On language
In the land of invented languages
Nature via nurture
A course in phonetics
Kinds of Minds
Women, fire, and dangerous things
Darwin's dangerous idea
The better angels of our nature
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind
The Ancestor's Tale
The Blind Watchmaker
Genome
The Extended Phenotype