Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (hc) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (hc) by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
The Ascent of Man (hc) by Jacob Bronowski
Triumph: Life after the Cult - A Survivor's Lessons (hc) by Carolyn Jessop
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (hc) by George Lakoff
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (hc) by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
What Are Journalists For? (hc) by Jay Rosen
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (pb) by James Bamford
Two Treatises of Government (pb) by John Locke
The only ones I've read previously are Mistakes Were Made and The Political Mind; the former I consider to be an essential item on any skeptic's bookshelf and the latter an accessible (though flawed) 21st century explication of a principle long ago recognized by David Hume: "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions."
Update: Went back and picked up two more items:
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 (pb) by Milton Mayer
The Mismeasure of Man (pb) by Stephen Jay Gould
Unfortunately, this is the original edition of Mismeasure and not the revised/updated version that features a critique of The Bell Curve.
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