- 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
- 2000 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge – E.O. Wilson (bridging science and humanities)
- Steven Pinker
- 2018 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 2021 Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Richard Dawkins
- 1998 Unweaving the Rainbow (scientific understanding does not diminish wonder but enhances it)
- 2011 The Magic of Reality (for teens, contrasts superstitions with scientific explanations)
- 2017 Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- 2019 The Scientific Attitude – Lee McIntyre (not method, but attitude—willingness to change beliefs based on evidence)
- 2017 The Knowledge Machine – Michael Strevens (science works: not because it’s logical, but because it’s institutionally irrational (limits subjective reasoning)
- 1993 Science as a Way of Knowing – John A. Moore
- 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- 2005 The Invisible Gorilla – Chabris & Simons (attention blindness and flawed intuition)
- 2018 The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe – Steven Novella (tools for scientific skepticism)
- 2002 Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer (skepticism in everyday life)
- 1995 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – Carl Sagan
- 2010 Merchants of Doubt – Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway ()obscured truth, manipulation)
- 2009 Don’t Be Such a Scientist – Randy Olson (bridging the scientist–audience divide)
- 2014 If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? – Alan Alda (on empathy and clarity in science)