Books
- Inside the Brain (with George A. Ojemann, New York:New American Library, 1980).
- The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Update 1991 by Bantam.)
- The River That Runs Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain (New York: Macmillan, 1986. ISBN 0-02-520920-5)
- The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness (New York: Bantam Books, 1990. ISBN 0-553-05707-3)
- The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1991. ISBN 0-553-07084-3)
- How the Shaman Stole the Moon: The Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists: From Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon (New York: Bantam Books, 1991. ISBN 0-553-07740-6)
- Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language (with George A. Ojemann)
- How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (New York: Basic Books, 1996. ISBN 0-465-07277-1)
- The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
- Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain (with Derek Bickerton) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0-262-03273-2)
- A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-09201-1)
- A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-515907-1)
- Almost Us: Portraits of the Apes (2005, ISBN 1-4196-1979-9)
- Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN 0-226-09204-6.
- The Great Climate Leap: A Climate Surprise Is Like a Heart Attack (Seattle; ClimateBooks, 2012), ISBN 978-1-4751-4934-0.
- The Great CO2 Cleanup: Backing Out of the Danger Zone (Seattle: ClimateBooks,2012), ISBN 978-1-4751-5174-9.
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