What to Read After Descartes' Error
Readers who loved Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Descartes' Error 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 Descartes' Error
In Search of Memory
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
Conversations on consciousness
Philosophy in the flesh
The Emotional Brain
The astonishing hypothesis
A Universe of Consciousness
The illusion of conscious will
The Quest for Consciousness
Supersizing the mind
QED
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
An Anthropologist on Mars
Sex at Dawn
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Bad Science
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
Predictably Irrational
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The God Delusion
Cloud Atlas
The Tipping Point
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
A short history of nearly everything