What to Read After The Origins of Virtue
Readers who loved The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Origins of Virtue 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 Origins of Virtue
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are
The Blank Slate
Freedom Evolves
Consilience
The Meme Machine
Why is sex fun?
Evolution
The Mating Mind
On Human Nature
Nonzero
Religion Explained
Sociobiology
The 10,000 Year Explosion
Why We Get Sick
Not by Genes Alone
The Third Chimpanzee
Mothers and Others
The Evolution of Desire
Full House
The Science of Good and Evil
Good Natured
Our Inner Ape
How the Mind Works