What to Read After How the Mind Works
Readers who loved How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How the Mind Works 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 How the Mind Works
Consciousness explained
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are
The Extended Phenotype
Consilience
The Language Instinct
The Blank Slate
The Stuff of Thought
The Quest for Consciousness
Darwin's dangerous idea
The Ancestor's Tale
The better angels of our nature
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind
Genome
The Blind Watchmaker
Breaking the spell
The astonishing hypothesis
Synaptic Self
The origins of virtue
Religion Explained
Searching for Memory
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
The society of mind
Self comes to mind
Moral Landscape