Hey guys, so I want to share with you the techniques I’ve used to go from reading a book or two a month to reading two or three a week
Now this is only my own experience and I don’t know if you’ll get the same results, but I’ve collected this information after months of researching about the best speed reading practices
I tried to keep this post as concise and to the point as possible so I just added the most important points but it’s still a little long, so you might wanna grab a cup of coffee and go through it, or you can save/bookmark it for later
WEEK 1
1) Find your starting speed
• Get a book, make sure it’s not full of information or data, just choose a “fun” or a story-driven book to start with (preferably a hard-cover)
• Set a timer to 2 minutes
• Read for comprehension (how you normally read)
• After 2 minutes count the number of the lines you’ve read (it counts as a line if it goes more than halfway across the page)
• Divide the number of the lines by 2 (if you read 50 lines then 50/2= 25) That’s your average lines per minute
• Count the number of words in any 3 lines and divide by 3 (30 words in 3 lines means 30/3= 10) That’s your average words per line
• To calculate your words per minute WPM, just multiply Lines Per Min x Words Per Line (25 x 10= 250 WPM)
Choose a time where you’re most focused to get the most accurate results, the average reading speed is about 200 to 250 WPM
2) Remove Obstacles
The most common obstacles while reading are lack of focus, sub-vocalization, and regression, in fact research shows that 25-30% of reading time is spent re-reading words
The best way to eliminate them is to use a visual pacer for three reasons:
• Using a visual pacer increases reading speed 25-50%
• Your eyes are attracted to motion
• Your sense of sight and touch are closely linked (considering you use your finger as a pacer)
Tips for using a visual pacer:
• Don’t sway your finger, rather use your whole arm, since your finger can get tired much more quickly if you keep moving it for a long time
• Don’t just move your finger around the page, make sure it’s on the exact words you’re reading
• Keep and upright posture, and don’t put the book on a flat surface
3) Indentation Reading
This technique depends mainly on your peripheral vision, which allows you to see a group of words at the same time instead of reading one word at a time
So the way to do this is by moving the margins of your finger and your eyes movement closer
The way to do this is to not move them all the way to the left when you begin a line, and you don’t move them all the way to the right when you’re ending a line
So for example if you read the previous line, instead of moving your finger all the way to the word “line”, you can stop at the word “you’re” and you can still see the few words after it
This save you time and energy because you’re covering less real estate on the page
Tip: if you’re reading digitally, you can decrease the margins from the settings menu on your device so your peripheral vision won’t be wasted on empty margins
WEEK 2
1) Overcoming Sub-vocalization
Sub-vocalization is reading each word either out loud or most commonly inside your head
The problem with it is that if you have to say each word then you can only read as fast as you could speak
Which means that your reading speed is limited to your talking speed rather than your thinking speed
95% of what we read are “sight words” which are words that occur frequently in written language that you can automatically know on sight
In fact JFK was said to be a fast reader, he read 1000 words per minute, and read 6 newspapers with one cup of coffee, which means if he speaks 300 words per minute and reads 1000 words per minute, this means that there are about 700 words that he’s not pronouncing
The 1-2-3 Technique
This technique is used to reduce sub-vocalization (you can’t eliminate it but you’ll reduce it)
I’ll be honest, this technique is really tricky and very confusing at first, and it needs a lot of practice
• The idea is that while reading you count 1-2-3, 1-2-3, etc.
• This will be difficult at first and your comprehension will drop, and probably your speed too
• But the goal behind this technique isn’t to be faster or understand better, it’s to interrupt the pattern of sub-vocalization
• Because if you’re counting, then you can’t be reading the words at the same time
2) Speed Drills
You know when you lift something relatively heavy with one arm, say a chair, for a minute and then you lift something lighter like a book
The book feels much lighter than it usually does, right?
That’s what we’re doing here, you’ll try to read up to 4 times faster than how you usually read that when you’re back to what’s normal, your normal is much easier than it how it used to be
The 4-3-2-1
• Grab a book and set a timer for 4 minutes
• Make sure you know where you started by highlighting or using a marker on the margin
• Read for full comprehension (don’t forget using your finger)
• When the 4 minutes finish, and put a mark where you left off
• Now re-read what you just read but this time with a 3 minutes timer
• When you’re done do the same process but in 2 minutes (I know this is difficult but the goal here is to finish at half the time even if you skip some lines, just make it to the end)
• Do the same thing in 1 minute (at this point you’re basically skimming but the point isn’t reading as much as it is getting your brain used to processing the words and information as fast as it can)
• After you’re done with the drill, continue where you left off (don’t re-read again) for 2 minutes, but this time for full comprehension
• Calculate your new WPM, (Go back to week 1)
• I recommend you do this drill daily and track your progress, it only takes about 10 minutes
3) Ask Questions
Now this one seemed a bit weird to me at first but the effect it has is amazing
Jim Kwik said that when he trains SAT students he tells them to read questions first before reading the paragraph and that’s because when they read the paragraph first and then look at the question they’re like “oh he’s asking about that bit, I didn’t know it was important”
That’s why he trains them to do the opposite so that when they read the questions first and then go back to the paragraph they already know what the examiner deems as important and when they see it in the paragraph they’re like “aha that’s the answer”
Same principle applies to reading and it does help you pay attention and be more focused
The researcher George Miller at Harvard University came up with the idea called 7+2 or 7-2
Which basically states that the human brain can only pay attention to 5 to 9 bits of information at once
So you come up with 5 to 9 questions before reading (works especially great for fiction books) like asking who is this about, where does it take place, when is it happening, etc. and while some things won’t be mentioned directly, you can look for clues yourself
Now I don’t really read fiction so I’m sure you can come up with much better questions, bear in mind that this principle isn’t used only for fiction books and it’s not exclusive for reading either
WEEK 3
1) How To Take Notes
Well everyone knows how important it is to take notes on what you’re reading, but do you know that you forget 80% of what you’ve read after 48 hours? Yikes
So to help you take better notes here my two favorite ways, also keep in mind that taking notes with pen and paper is superior to doing so digitally for reasons I don’t want to bombard you with, but either way is effective
A) Capture-Create
• Spilt the page into two segments Capture and Create
• The capture segment is for not taking so if you read a piece of information like the one you’re reading now just write it in there
• The create segment is more for your impression on what you’re reading, so for example if you’re reading this right now and you’re thinking of all the ways you can apply it to your life and your imagination is starting to go wild, it’s better to do it on that segment of the page
• The create segment could also be used to write down your questions, how the information relates to you, or how you’re gonna teach it to someone
B) Mind Map
• Write the main idea in the middle of the page with a circle around it
• Put the sub-ideas around it like branches coming out of a tree
• For example if Sales is the main idea you put the sub-ideas around it as building rapport, tonality, handling objections
• You can do the same with the sub-ideas to so for example handling objections could have branches coming out of it like the price is too high, I don’t need this, I need to ask my wife first
• This is a great idea because it’s not linear which means you can see everything in one place on the same page, if it was linear then something on page 50 could be more important than what’s on the first page
• A great thing to do as well is to add symbols so you can add/or substitute the word sales with $
2) Eye Fixations
A fixation is when your eye stops, and it’s the difference between a child, an average reader, and a speed reader
When a child is learning to read, they read individual letters at a time before they can make sense of the whole word so they’d read the word park like this P A R K which means their eyes have to make four stops on each letter
An average reader reads one word at a time which means their eyes make one stop on each word instead of each letter, like this
He was at the park, that’s five stops for each individual word
Speed readers on the other hand use what we talked about earlier which is their peripheral vision, which allows them to see groups of words at a time, so instead of making a fixation on each word, they could make only two or three per line, which means their eyes are moving faster and smoother along each line
3) Limiting Eye Fixations
• Get a book and divide a page into four segments, so there are two ways to do this, you can either use a pencil to draw three parallel vertical lines
• Or if you don’t want to that you can put three dots on the top of the page and imagine a vertical line coming down from each one of them dividing the page into quarters
• Those four areas are now your fixations
• Using your finger or any visual pacer you’re using, instead of going through each word at a time, go one segment at a time, which means you’ll be making just four fixations on each line
Note: The number of lines or “imaginary lines” will depend on the size of the book you’re reading and how comfortable you are using your peripheral vision, so you don’t have to draw exactly three lines, just start with whatever number you’re comfortable with and make your way into decreasing eye fixations
Conclusion:
Now this isn’t something you have to do the exact same way I did it, it’s just my own experience and it worked for me, just don’t expect to implement one or two things and then you’ll find results straight away
You’ll have to practice each new technique first before you move on to the next one, and feel free to measure your new WPM whenever you feel like
It’s important to asses your progress but don’t get discouraged if your reading speed or comprehension fluctuate, it’s normal and it depends on a lot of factors like your mood, how focused you are, how well you slept, nutrition, etc.
It took 3 weeks for me to double my reading speed but it might take you more or less, depending on your starting speed, I saw great improvement especially because English isn’t my first language and I do all my reading in English.
I also can read much faster now that I can finish up to 3 books a week which I never thought I could do, which also enabled me to finish and summarize books and that enabled me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while
So I started this Youtube channel where I summarize non-fiction books, since all the existing channels use the same animated board style I decided to do something very different, if you want to take a look you can check it out, I’m doing two uploads per week because It’s still new
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q3Vx ... zn1nqTJIKA
I hope you can get value out of this and that it helps you, if you have any questions leave a comment and I’ll answer it
-
In total there are 56 users online :: 1 registered, 0 hidden and 55 guests (based on users active over the past 60 minutes)
Most users ever online was 871 on Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:00 am
How I X2 My Reading Speed in 3 Weeks (The Complete Guide)
The perfect space for valuable discussions that may not neatly fit within the other forums.
Forum rules
Do not promote books in this forum. Instead, promote your books in either Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book! or Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!.
All other Community Rules apply in this and all other forums.
Do not promote books in this forum. Instead, promote your books in either Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book! or Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!.
All other Community Rules apply in this and all other forums.
-
-
Getting Comfortable
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:17 pm
- 3
- Been thanked: 3 times
Re: How I X2 My Reading Speed in 3 Weeks (The Complete Guide)
Great post with amazing advice! I also like your youtube video. Keep up the good work. - Gustavo Woltmann
Jump to
- General Discussion
- ↳ Religion & Philosophy
- ↳ Current Events & History
- ↳ Science & Technology
- ↳ Arts & Entertainment
- ↳ Everything Else
- Non-Fiction Books
- ↳ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
- ↳ What non-fiction book should we read and discuss next?
- ↳ Non-Fiction General Discussion
- ↳ Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!
- Fiction Books
- ↳ The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood
- ↳ What fiction book should we read and discuss next?
- ↳ Short Story Discussions
- ↳ Fiction General Discussion
- ↳ Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book!
- Special Forums
- ↳ What are you currently reading?
- ↳ A Passion for Poetry
- ↳ Author's Lounge
- ↳ Creative Writing
- The Archives
- ↳ Archived Book Discussion Forums
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2022-2023
- ↳ Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - by Yuval Noah Harari
- ↳ The Day of the Triffids - by John Wyndham
- ↳ The Hidden Life of Trees - by Peter Wohlleben
- ↳ How the World Really Works - by Vaclav Smil
- ↳ Slaughterhouse-Five - by Kurt Vonnegut
- ↳ How to Read the Constitution -- and Why - by Kim Wehle
- ↳ Big Time: Stories - by Jen Spyra
- ↳ Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius
- ↳ Divided We Fall - by David French
- ↳ Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce... - by Steven Pinker
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2020-2021
- ↳ Crime and Punishment - by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ↳ The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars - by Jo Marchant
- ↳ Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - by Adam Grant
- ↳ Books do Furnish a Life - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ Another Country - by James Baldwin
- ↳ Dracula - by Bram Stoker
- ↳ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - by Isabel Wilkerson
- ↳ To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
- ↳ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic - by Peter Wadhams
- ↳ The Rosie Project: A Novel - by Graeme Simsion
- ↳ The Righteous Mind - by Jonathan Haidt
- ↳ The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2018-2019
- ↳ American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good - by Colin Woodard
- ↳ July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century - by Arthur C. Clarke
- ↳ The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution - by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett
- ↳ Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - by James W. Loewen
- ↳ The Last Unicorn - by Peter S. Beagle
- ↳ Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped - by Garry Kasparov
- ↳ 1984 - by George Orwell
- ↳ Finding Purpose in a Godless World - by Ralph Lewis (Foreword by Michael Shermer)
- ↳ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari
- ↳ The Time Machine - by H. G. Wells
- ↳ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J. D. Vance
- ↳ We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2016-2017
- ↳ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- ↳ The Master and Margarita - by Mikhail Bulgakov
- ↳ A People's History of the United States - by Howard Zinn
- ↳ Darwin's Dangerous Idea - by Daniel Dennett
- ↳ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - by Jules Verne
- ↳ A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
- ↳ Uncle Tom's Cabin - by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ↳ God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction - by Dan Barker, foreword by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - by Sebastian Junger
- ↳ The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition - by Ernest Hemingway
- ↳ Up From Slavery - by Booker T. Washington
- ↳ Soul Identity - by Dennis Batchelder
- ↳ On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt - by Richard Carrier
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2014-2015
- ↳ The Martian - by Andy Weir
- ↳ Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser - by Guy P. Harrison
- ↳ The Post-American World: Release 2.0 - by Fareed Zakaria
- ↳ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel - by Harper Lee
- ↳ Flowers for Algernon - by Daniel Keyes
- ↳ Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - by Lawrence Wright
- ↳ Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan with Ann Druyan
- ↳ King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) (Pt. 1) - by William Shakespeare
- ↳ Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century - by Lex Bayer and John Figdor
- ↳ Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism - by Richard Carrier
- ↳ Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus – by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- ↳ The Big Questions: Philosophy - Simon Blackburn
- ↳ Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki - by Stacy Trasancos
- ↳ The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - by Jonathan Haidt
- ↳ A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - by George R. R. Martin
- ↳ Tempesta's Dream: A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera - by Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
- ↳ Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2012-2013
- ↳ The Drowning Girl - by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- ↳ The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga - by Sylvain Tesson
- ↳ The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion: The Mormons - by David Fitzgerald
- ↳ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - by James Joyce
- ↳ The Divine Comedy - by Dante Alighieri
- ↳ The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ Dubliners - by James Joyce
- ↳ My Name Is Red - by Orhan Pamuk
- ↳ The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - by Jared Diamond
- ↳ The Man Who Was Thursday - by G. K. Chesterton
- ↳ The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - by Steven Pinker
- ↳ Lord Jim - by Joseph Conrad
- ↳ The Hobbit - by J. R. R. Tolkien
- ↳ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Douglas Adams
- ↳ Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand
- ↳ Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
- ↳ World War Z - by Max Brooks
- ↳ Evolutionary Psychology - by Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett, John Lycett
- ↳ Moby Dick; or, the Whale - by Herman Melville
- ↳ A Visit from the Goon Squad - by Jennifer Egan
- ↳ Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel - by Russell Banks
- ↳ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - by Thomas S. Kuhn
- ↳ Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition - by Thomas Hobbes
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2010-2011
- ↳ The House of the Spirits - by Isabel Allende
- ↳ Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens - by Christopher Hitchens
- ↳ The Falls: A Novel (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates
- ↳ Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection - by D.M. Murdock
- ↳ The Glass Bead Game: A Novel - by Hermann Hesse
- ↳ A Devil's Chaplain - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ The Hero with a Thousand Faces - by Joseph Campbell
- ↳ The Brothers Karamazov - by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ↳ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
- ↳ The Moral Landscape - by Sam Harris
- ↳ The Decameron - by Giovanni Boccaccio
- ↳ The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
- ↳ The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
- ↳ The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright
- ↳ The Tin Drum - by Gunter Grass
- ↳ Good Omens - by Neil Gaiman
- ↳ Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - by Dan Ariely
- ↳ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel - by Haruki Murakami
- ↳ ALONE: Orphaned on the Ocean - by Richard Logan & Tere Duperrault Fassbender
- ↳ Don Quixote - Translated by Edith Grossman
- ↳ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - by Oliver Sacks
- ↳ Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - by Nikolai Gogol
- ↳ The Passion of the Western Mind - by Richard Tarnas
- ↳ The Left Hand of Darkness - by Ursula K. Le Guin
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2008-2009
- ↳ The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism - by Howard Bloom
- ↳ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - by Lewis Carroll
- ↳ Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle - by Chris Hedges
- ↳ The Sound and the Fury - by William Faulkner
- ↳ The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions - by Neil Gaiman
- ↳ The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ When Good Thinking Goes Bad - by Todd C. Riniolo
- ↳ House of Leaves - by Mark Z. Danielewski
- ↳ American Gods: A Novel - by Neil Gaiman
- ↳ Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved - by Frans de Waal
- ↳ The Enormous Room - by E.E. Cummings
- ↳ The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde
- ↳ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - by Christopher Hitchens
- ↳ The Name of the Rose - by Umberto Eco
- ↳ Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
- ↳ Paradise Lost - by John Milton
- ↳ Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - by Kevin Phillips
- ↳ The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- ↳ Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists - by Dan Barker
- ↳ The Things They Carried - by Tim O'Brien
- ↳ The Limits of Power - by Andrew Bacevich
- ↳ Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov
- ↳ Orlando - by Virginia Woolf
- ↳ On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - by Robert Burton
- ↳ 50 reasons people give for believing in a god - by Guy P. Harrison
- ↳ Walden - by Henry David Thoreau
- ↳ Exile and the Kingdom - by Albert Camus
- ↳ Our Inner Ape - by Frans de Waal
- ↳ Your Inner Fish - by Neil Shubin
- ↳ No Country for Old Men - by Cormac McCarthy
- ↳ The Age of American Unreason - by Susan Jacoby
- ↳ Ten Theories of Human Nature - by Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman
- ↳ Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
- ↳ The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2006-2007
- ↳ A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini
- ↳ The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - by Philip Zimbardo
- ↳ Responsibility and Judgment - by Hannah Arendt
- ↳ Godless in America: Conversations With an Atheist - by George A. Ricker
- ↳ Interventions - by Noam Chomsky
- ↳ Religious Expression and the American Constitution - by Franklyn S. Haiman
- ↳ Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - by Bill McKibben
- ↳ The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - by Jared Diamond
- ↳ The Woman in the Dunes - by Abe Kobo
- ↳ Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction - by Eugenie Scott
- ↳ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - by Michael Pollan
- ↳ I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 - by Robert Graves
- ↳ Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett
- ↳ A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - by David Fromkin
- ↳ The Time Traveler's Wife - by Audrey Niffenegger
- ↳ The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris
- ↳ Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
- ↳ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon
- ↳ Value & Virtue in a Godless Universe - by Erik J. Wielenberg
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2004-2005
- ↳ The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow
- ↳ The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga
- ↳ Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
- ↳ Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
- ↳ The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong
- ↳ The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
- ↳ What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling
- ↳ Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History - by Lee Harris
- ↳ Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan
- ↳ How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer
- ↳ Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - by Antonio Damasio
- ↳ Archived Book Discussions 2002-2003
- ↳ Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - by Al Franken
- ↳ The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley
- ↳ The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
- ↳ Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - by Richard Dawkins
- ↳ Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi
- ↳ Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom
- ↳ The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom
- ↳ Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
- ↳ Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
- ↳ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown
- ↳ Future Shock - by Alvin Toffler
Quick Links
As an Amazon Associate BookTalk.org earns from qualifying purchases.