Core Frameworks
- Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (PDF)
- Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, & Murray Silverstein, A Pattern Language (PDF)
- Martin Daly & Margo Wilson, Homicide
- Philippe Rochat, Others in Mind: The Social Origins of Self-Consciousness
- Roy Baumeister, Meanings of Life
- Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
- Aidan Kavanagh, On Liturgical Theology
- Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Peripheral Frameworks
- Donald E. Brown, Human Universals
- Alex Messoudi, Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture & Synthesize the Social Sciences
- Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, & Reginald Adams Jr., Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
- Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (PDF)
- Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (text)
- Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Terror
- Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip
- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (PDF)
- David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been
- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- Adam Seligman & Robert Weller, Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
- Roger Schank, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory
- Linda Dégh, American Folklore and the Mass Media
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (PDF
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (PDF)
- Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Journals
Novels