2019’s Top Ten Texts

Over the past year I have enjoyed a bunch of books. Here are the top ten in a non-hierarchical list. After I made the last I remembered how much I loved The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Jospeh Henrich, so think of it as honorably (almost) forgotten. While I am only half-way through the book currently, I am confident that Michael Kerr’s Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families would be on the list if I waited until next week to write this.

1. 1. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
   2. Why We Need Religion by Stephen Asma
   3. This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution by David Sloan Wilson
   4. The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
   5. Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff
   6. Believers: Faith in Human Nature by Melvin Kooner
   7. Nature as Event: The Lure Of The Possible by Didier Debaise
   8. God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall by Bethany N. Sollereder
   9. Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon by Eboni Marshall Turman
   10. Faith and Evolution: A Grace-filled Naturalism by Roger Haight