Start with high-confidence cognitive science books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Conscious
Annaka Harris
Knowing What We Know
Simon Winchester, Harper
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil
Thought and Language, Revised and Expanded Edition
Lev S. Vygotsky
Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
David Herman
The Extended Mind
Annie Murphy Paul, Mariner Books
Brainscapes
Rebecca Schwarzlose
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal, Sean Runnette
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R Hofstadter
Rationality
Steven Pinker
The Storytelling Animal
Jonathan Gottschall
Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky
Irreducible
Federico Faggin
A World Appears
Michael Pollan
