Podblack and Embiggen Books’ Recommended Reading

In association with Melbourne Skeptics, Melbourne Eastern Hills Skeptics recently presented ‘Podblack’s Booklist with Embiggen Books’, a cosy presentation of Kylie Sturgess and Warren Bonett’s recommended reading list for critical thinkers and popular science lovers. The event was also recorded and released as a special Science on Top episode.

Here, for your future reading and book-buying pleasure, is the entire list of books recommended by Kylie and Warren. As they agree on many titles, I’ve colour-coded the titles, red where recommended by both, green if only by Kylie, and blue if only Warren. Where possible I have also linked to the title at the Embiggen Books site from which you can find out more, or place an order online.

You can also view Kylie’s list alone at the TokenSkeptic.org website.

Without further to-do, here’s the recommended reading list:

• Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Sagan
• Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas by Mike McRae
  
• Why people Believe Weird Things by Shermer
• Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Shermer
• Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal by Bridgstock
  
• Bad Science by Goldacre
  
• Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Singh and Ernst
  
• Bad Astronomy by Plait
  
• Flim Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by Randi
  
• Faith Healers by Randi
  
• Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Wiseman
  
• 59 Seconds: How Psychology Can Improve Your Life in Less than a Minute by Wiseman
  
• The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceives Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
  
• 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology by Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio and Beyerstein
  
• Making Sense: Philosophy Behind the Headlines by Julian Baggini
• Do You Think What You Think You Think by Julian Baggini
• The Skeptic’s Dictionary by Carroll
  
• The Skeptic’s Guide to the Paranormal by Kelly
  
• The Science of Superstition by Hood
  
• Crimes Against Logic by Whyte
• Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Specter
  
• Doubt: A History by Hecht
• Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Sandra Blakeslee
• Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools Of Us All by Shapiro
• Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History by David Aaronovitch
• Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate by Mnookin
• Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit
• Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Vyse
• Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Loxton
• Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries by Radford
• Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Gardner
  

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• Podblack’s Book Club at Melbourne / MEH SitP (codenix.org)
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• The Australian Book of Atheism (seantheblogonaut.com)