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Critical Thinking Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 584,400 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.85 — 40,809 ratings — published 2011
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.13 — 144,069 ratings — published 2021
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,081 ratings — published 1995
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,858 ratings — published 1981
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,088 ratings — published 2018
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,886 ratings — published 2008
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,700 ratings — published 2016
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,799 ratings — published 2023
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,267 ratings — published 2020
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,853 ratings — published 2018
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,356 ratings — published 2000
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,213 ratings — published 1986
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,028 ratings — published 2012
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,128 ratings — published 2004
Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 229 ratings — published
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,402 ratings — published 2019
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,738 ratings — published 1940
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,303 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,468 ratings — published 2007
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.97 — 629 ratings — published 1994
You Are Not So Smart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 36,105 ratings — published 2011
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,404 ratings — published 2015
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,153 ratings — published 2001
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,775 ratings — published 2008
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 36 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,041 ratings — published 2007
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,417 ratings — published 2012
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,981 ratings — published 1997
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,260 ratings — published 2018
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,882 ratings — published 2005
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 29 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,249 ratings — published 2018
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,961 ratings — published 1954
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,125 ratings — published 2015
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,638 ratings — published 2012
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,175 ratings — published 1991
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,075 ratings — published 2008
Think Like a Freak (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,125 ratings — published 2014
Rationality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,411 ratings — published 2021
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,799 ratings — published 2021
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,460 ratings — published 2008
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,250,662 ratings — published 2011
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,661 ratings — published 2009
Critical Thinking Skills (Palgrave Study Skills)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 376 ratings — published 2005
The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking-Concepts and Tools (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 752 ratings — published 1999
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,290 ratings — published 2005
Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills (Audio CD)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,266 ratings — published
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,451 ratings — published 2014
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,206 ratings — published 2013
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,579 ratings — published 2019
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,961 ratings — published 2018
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”
― Animal Liberation
― Animal Liberation












