my mind on books

What do Michel Foucault and Thich Nhat Hanh have in common? Maybe not much, but both have bestselling books in Amazon’s “Consciousness & Thought” category (and they both live/d in France!)

Amazon’s lists are usually interesting to browse, though their subject categories can sometimes give you an odd assortment of titles. The category “Consciousness & Thought” is found in Books/Nonfiction/Philosophy.

Right now the top five books in this category are

1. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
2. I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (a personal favorite)
3. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
4. The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
5. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James

This list should change as Amazon updates their bestseller information: Amazon’s most popular books in Consciousness & Thought

The top five new & future releases in Consciousness & Thought are

1. Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by B. Alan Wallace
2. The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
3. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson
4. Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will

Link to the complete and ever-changing list:
Amazon’s bestselling new & future releases in Consciousness & Thought