John’s Gender/Sexuality/Psychology Reading List

The following list shows all the gender-related books that I currently own:

My Gender/psychology reading list (opens a .pdf)

~ or refer to this list below (as of February 8, 2025):

ISBN/link Year Published Title ~ Author

0394441834 1905 “Studies in the Psychology of Sex” ~ Havelock Ellis (Two-volume set; 1942 edition)
0804709742 1974 “The Psychology of Sex Differences” Volume I/Text ~ Eleanor Emmons Maccoby and Carol Nagy Jacklin
0804709750 1974 “The Psychology of Sex Differences” Volume II/Annotated Bibliography ~ Eleanor Emmons Maccoby and Carol Nagy Jacklin
046500802x 2003 “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating” ~ David M. Buss
0399140417 1996 “The Alchemy of Love and Lust” ~ Dr. Theresa L. Crenshaw
1560258489 2006 “Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles” ~ Robin Baker (Trade)
0465081797 1996 “Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex” ~ Robin Baker (First Edition – Hardcover)
0060556579 1993 “The Red Queen – Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature” ~ Matt Ridley
0399153322 2005 “Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide” ~ Maureen Dowd
1594036756 2013 “Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters” ~ Helen Smith
9780393239966 2015 Women After All – Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy ~ Melvin Konner, M.D.
0375751467 1859 “The Origin of the Species” ~ Charles Darwin
0691023697 1871 “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” ~ Charles Darwin
9780760763117 1871 “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” ~ Charles Darwin (2004 Barnes & Noble printing)
1568361041 1969 “The Human Zoo” ~ Desmond Morris
0553351370 1992 “Fire In the Belly: On Being a Man” ~ Sam Keen
0306813769 1990/2004 “Iron John – A Book about Men” ~ Robert Bly
978-1728275154 2023 “A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

“~ Deena Emera, PhD

0684838915 1998 “The Trouble with Testosterone: and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament”

~ Robert M. Sapolsky

1591792576 2006 “The Way of the Superior Man” ~ David Deida
0618139303 2003 “Y: The Descent of Men” ~ Steve Jones
0393304485 1986 “The Blind Watchmaker – Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design”

~ Richard Dawkins

9780142003343 2002/2016 “The Blank Slate – The Modern Denial of Human Nature” ~ Steven Pinker
1580083501 2001 “How to Manage Your Dick: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self” ~ Sean O’Reilly
0525952098 2011 “A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire”

~ Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam

0425181448 2001 “The Myth of Male Power” ~ Warren Farrell
9780521223614 1980 “Reproduction in Mammals – Book 8: Human Sexuality” ~ C.R. Austin & R.V. Short
0226467066 1954 “The Human Animal” ~ Weston La Barre ~ The University of Chicago Press
0716750538 1989 “Sexual Selection” ~ James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould ~ Scientific American Library
9780385495172 2001 “The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature” ~ Geoffrey Miller
9780063375444 2025 “The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender, and mating shape modern relationships” ~ Nathan H. Lents
9780767927543 2011 “The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think” ~ Louann Brizendine, M.D.
9780767920100 2006 “The Female Brain” ~ Louann Brizendine, M.D.
0385479425 1999 “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty” ~ Nancy Etcoff
9781541674899 2022 “Bitch – On the Female of the Species” ~ Lucy Cooke
0195063805 1991 “In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought” ~ Carl N. Degler
9781451644180 2013 “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming our Young Men” ~ Christina Hoff Sommers
0345434854 2000 “Raising Cain – Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys” ~ Dan Kindlon, Ph.D and Michael Thompson, Ph.D
9781604612714 2007 “Women: Theory and Practice” ~ Bernard Chapin
9780143113294 2008 “Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee” ~ Pamela Druckerman
0801828937 1974/1986 “Him/Her/Self: Sex Roles in Modern America” ~ Peter G. Filene
083911463X 1980 “Social Behavior in Primates” ~ Neil Chalmers
0201061945 1983 “Masculine and Feminine: Sex Roles over the Life Cycle” ~ Marie Richmond-Abbott
0735203474v 2004 “You Don’t Say: Navigating Nonverbal Communication Between the Sexes “

~ Audrey Nelson & Susan K. Golant

0060959622 1990 “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation” ~ Deborah Tannen
0380717832 1994 “Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work” ~ Deborah Tannen
0306446413 1994 “Too Close for Comfort” ~ Geraldine K. Piorkowski
1595230432 2007 “Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars” ~ Kingsley Browne
0300080263 1999 “Divided Labours: An Evolutionary View of Women at Work (Darwinism Today series)” ~ Kingsley Browne
0813530539 2002 “Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality (Rutgers Series on Humas Evolution)” ~Kingsley Browne
0648852918 2000 “The Kinder, Gentler Military” ~Stephanie Gutmann
0060173084 1997 “Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives” ~ Laura Schlessinger
0060186976 1998 “The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love” ~ Thomas Moore
0446673714 1996 “The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling” ~ James Hillman
0671244221 1946/1956/1984 “Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy” ~ Viktor E. Frankl
0195095731 1997 “How Do We Know Who We Are? A Biography of the Self”  ~ Arnold M. Ludwig
0393045358 1997 “How The Mind Works” ~ Steven Pinker
0312325347 2004 “Freedom from Fear: Finding the Courage to Act, Love, and Be” ~ Forrest Church
0809142848 2007 “Ordinary People as Monks & Mystics: Lifestyles for Spiritual Wholeness” ~ Marsha Sinetar
0553371320 1993 “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”

~ Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham

0060191325 1992 “Men Are From Mars – Women Are From Venus” ~ John Gray
006093221X 1999 “Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting

Relationship” ~ John Gray

0060926619 2005 “Mars and Venus Together Forever: Relationship Skills for Lasting Love” ~ John Gray
0553580159 1999 “Linda Goodman’s Relationship Signs” ~ Linda Goodman
0452280117 1994 “Guerrilla Dating Tactics – Strategies, Tips, and Secrets for Finding Romance” ~ Sharyn Wolf
0446602744 1995 “The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right” ~ Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
1591840031 2003 “Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard” ~ George Anders
0471267651 2003 “Backfire: Carly Fiorina’s High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard” ~ Peter Burrows
     

 

 

 

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