Skeptical Reading List

This page is a list of books that have been mentioned on the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe and SGU 5x5 podcasts.

Author	Title	SGU episodes	Gutenberg link	Main theme
Charles Darwin	On The Origin of Species	38	2009	Evolution
Stephen Jay Gould	Wonderful Life	38		Evolution
Niles Eldredge	The Pattern of Evolution	38		Evolution
Pat Shipman	Taking Wing	38		Evolution
Stephanie Muller	The Neanderthals	38		Evolution
Donald Johanson	Lucy's Child	38		Evolution
Delta Willis	The Hominid Gang	38		Evolution
Carl Sagan	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	38		Human psychology
Susana Martinez-Conde	Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains	396		Human psychology
Raymond Moody	Life After Life	462		Religion & Faith
Eben Alexander	Proof of Heaven	462		Religion & Faith
Bill Nye	Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation	473		Evolution
Scott Weems	Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why	473		Neuroscience
Anonymous	Book of Job	473	8018	Religion
David Kirby	Evidence of Harm	7		Science & Medicine
J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	7		Fantasy
Carl Sagan	Demon Haunted World	10		Logic & Philosophy
Debra Frasier	On the Day You Were Born	10		Science & Education
Greg Fritz	God Made You Special	10		Religion & Faith
Philip J. Klass	The Real Roswell Crash Saucer Cover Up	10		UFOs & Aliens
Philip J. Klass	UFO Abductions, A Dangerous Game	10		UFOs & Aliens
Robert A. Baker	They Call it Hypnosis	10		Human psychology
Robert A. Baker	Hidden Memories: Voices and Visions from Within	10		Human psychology
Robert A. Baker	Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome	10		Human psychology
Robert A. Baker	Missing Pieces: How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs, Psychics, and other Mysteries	10		Paranormal
Robert Park	Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud	11		Pseudoscience
James Burke	The Day The Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth and Other Events in History that Dramatically Altered Our Understanding Of the World	14		History
Michael Shermer	The Science of Good and Evil	5		Psychology
Michael Shermer	The Borderlands of Science	5		General science
Michael Shermer	Denying History	5		History
Michael Shermer	How We Believe	5		Psychology
Michael Shermer	Why People Believe Weird Things	5		Psychology
Chris Mooney	The Republican War on Science	15		Politics
Glenn Sparks	Media Effects Research, A Basic Overview	16		Media
Joe Nickell	Inquest on the Shroud of Turin	17		Religion
Joe Nickell	Secrets of the Supernatural	17		Pseudoscience
Joe Nickell	Looking for a Miracle	17		Religion
Joe Nickell	Missing Pieces	17		Paranormal
Joe Nickell	Secret of the Sideshows	17		Pseudoscience
Lloyd Pye	Everything You Know is Wrong	19		UFOs & Aliens
E. B. White	Charlotte’s Web	19		Fiction
Susan Blackmore	The Meme Machine	91		Human psychology
Jennifer Ouellette	Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self	453		Human psychology
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter	When Prophecy Fails	24		Human psychology
Terence Hines	Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: a Critical Examination of the Evidence	31		Pseudoscience
Susan Clancy	Abducted	31		UFOs and Aliens
Margaret Singer	Cults in Our Midst	36		Religion & Faith
Robert Jay Lifton	Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism	36		Human psychology
Eric Hoffer	The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements	36		Human psychology