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This is a list of '''controversial non-fiction books''' aimed at the general reader which discuss controversial issues, or are (or were at the time of writing) controversial for other reasons. 

The intention is to provide 
# a reading list of the pivotal works, good or bad, in controversial subjects
# a list of topics for Wikipedia articles on those books and their authors

Criteria for inclusion:

*This list is intended to be ''selective'', not exhaustive.
*The standard for books written in the last 40 years is necessarily weaker than that for older books, as there is no way of knowing whether these books will be as highly regarded (or reviled) in the decades to come. Their topical nature makes them important, and so they should be included here.


:''This list is alphabetical by topic, and books should be ordered by publication date within topics''

[[Artificial intelligence]] and the nature of [[consciousness]]:
* [[1986]]: ''[[The Society of Mind]]'' by [[Marvin Minsky]]
* [[1990]]: ''[[The Emperors New Mind|The Emperor's New Mind]]'' by [[Roger Penrose]]
* [[1991]]: ''[[Consciousness Explained]]'' by [[Daniel Dennett]]

[[Cosmology]]:
* [[1961]]: ''[[Anthropic principle|The Anthropic Cosmological Principle]]'' by [[John D. Barrow]] and [[Frank J. Tipler]]

[[Environmentalism]]:
* [[1798]]: ''[[An Essay on the Principle of Population]]'' by [[Thomas Malthus]]
* [[1962]]: ''[[Silent Spring]]'' by [[Rachel Carson]]
* [[1968]]: ''[[The Population Bomb]]'' by [[Paul Ehrlich|Paul R. Ehrlich]]
* [[1972]]: ''[[The Limits to Growth]]; A Report for the [[Club of Rome]]'s Project on the Predicament of Mankind''
* [[2001]]: ''[[The Skeptical Environmentalist]]'' by [[Bjorn Lomborg|Bjørn Lomborg]]

[[Evolution]]:
* [[1859]]: ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' by [[Charles Darwin]]
* [[1995]]: ''[[Darwins Dangerous Idea|Darwin's Dangerous Idea]]'' by [[Daniel Dennett]]

[[Feminism|Feminist Theory]]
* ''[[The Female Eunuch]]'' by [[Germaine Greer]]

[[History]]
* ''[[The End of History]]'' by [[Francis Fukuyama]]

[[Politics]]:
* [[1651]]: ''[[Leviathan]]'' by [[Thomas Hobbes]]
* [[1791]]: ''[[The Rights of Man]]'' by [[Thomas Paine]]
* [[1848]]: ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]
* [[1925]]/[[1926]]: ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' by [[Adolf Hitler]]

[[Race and intelligence]]:
* [[1981]]/[[1996]]: ''[[The Mismeasure of Man]]'' by [[Stephen Jay Gould]]
* [[1994]]: ''[[The Bell Curve]]''