Books › The meme machine › Books like it
If you loved
Books like The meme machine
A paradigm-shifting exploration that will make you question whether your thoughts are truly your own or just viral replicators using your brain as a host. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The meme machine.
- mind-expanding
- existential
- curious
- intellectually stimulating
- 01
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins · 1995
A paradigm-shifting journey that fundamentally rewires how you look at life, survival, and your own place in the natural world.
- 02
The elephant in the brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
A cheerful but ruthless dismantling of every noble motive you thought you had.
- 03
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley · 1993
A provocative, paradigm-shifting dive into the biological imperatives that secretly pull the strings of human desire and behavior.
- 04
The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins · 1989
A rigorous, mind-expanding journey that completely rewires how you perceive the boundaries of living things.
- 05
The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan · 1977
A poetic, mind-expanding journey into the deep evolutionary history of human consciousness.
- 06
The secret of our success
Joseph Patrick Henrich
A paradigm-shifting exploration that dismantles the myth of the lone genius to reveal the true superpower of our species: our collective brain.
- 07
Darwin's dangerous idea
Daniel C. Dennett · 1995
An intellectually dizzying journey that uses a single biological concept to dismantle and rebuild your understanding of meaning itself.
- 08
Consciousness
Susan Blackmore · 2003
A dizzying, rigorous dismantling of everything you thought you knew about your own mind and sense of self.
- 09
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Julian Jaynes
A sweeping, deeply unsettling, and awe-inspiring journey into the ancient mind that will forever change how you hear your own internal monologue.
- 10
On human nature
Edward O. Wilson · 1978
A sweeping, intellectually provocative exploration that strips away human exceptionalism to reveal the biological machinery driving our culture, morals, and minds.
- 11
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Daniel C. Dennett
A sweeping, cerebral exploration of how mindless biological processes gave rise to the breathtaking complexity of human consciousness.
- 12
The Ape that Understood the Universe
Steve Stewart-Williams
An expansive, intellectually stimulating exploration of how a biological primate developed the capacity to ponder its own existence.
