Updates from Derren Brown and the Enigma Crew

So many of you email us asking us what to read on a specific subject or books we/Derren are currently reading. Here is an ever growing list of the books we feel offer a good start – if you have a book you think we should have listed here just email us:

Portraits	Tricks of the Mind	Extracts from “Tricks of the Mind”	The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas	On Deception

Friends of the blog

Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives	59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot	Bad Science

Recommended reading

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion	The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few	Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions	Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness	Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Flip: How to Succeed by Turning Everything You Know on Its Head	Irrationality	THE Right Way to Do Wrong: An Expose of Successful Criminals	The Happiness Hypothesis	The Story of Art Pocket Edition
On Intelligence	The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution	Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel	The Demon-haunted World	Do You Think What You Think You Think?

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain	Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better	Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams	The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers	The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series)
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck	The Art of Memory	An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural	The Skeptic’s Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
Flim-Flam: The Truth about Unicorns, Parapsychology and Other Delusions	How We Know What isn’t So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life	Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley bad science series)	Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History	Supersense: From Superstition to Religion – the Brain Science of Belief
Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things	Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You	A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives	A Short History of Nearly Everything	The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science	Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts	Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control	What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-reading People
Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings	Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial

There’s more recommended reading here – some of it unrelated to the above – others there to make you think and chuckle. If you have any suggestions for books that you feel we should know about then please email us here with a mini review and what section you think it belongs in.