| Why people believe weird things: Pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time M Shermer Macmillan, 2002 | 1387 | 2002 |
| The believing brain: From ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies---How we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths M Shermer Macmillan, 2011 | 736 | 2011 |
| Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Updated and Expanded M Shermer, A Grobman Univ of California Press, 2023 | 349 | 2023 |
| The science of good and evil: Why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule M Shermer, D McFarland Macmillan, 2004 | 339 | 2004 |
| In Darwin's shadow: The life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A biographical study on the psychology of history M Shermer Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 | 273 | 2002 |
| How we believe: The search for God in an age of science M Shermer Macmillan, 2000 | 214 | 2000 |
| Patternicity: Finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise M Shermer Scientific American 299 (5), 48, 2008 | 180 | 2008 |
| Why Darwin matters: The case against intelligent design M Shermer Macmillan, 2007 | 169 | 2007 |
| The borderlands of science: Where sense meets nonsense M Shermer Oxford University Press, 2001 | 164 | 2001 |
| How we believe: Science, skepticism, and the search for God M Shermer Macmillan, 2003 | 152 | 2003 |
| The moral arc: How science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom M Shermer Macmillan, 2015 | 147 | 2015 |
| Exorcising Laplace's demon: Chaos and antichaos, history and metahistory M Shermer History and theory, 59-83, 1995 | 139 | 1995 |
| The view of science: Stephen Jay Gould as historian of science and scientific historian, popular scientist and scientific popularizer MB Shermer Social Studies of Science 32 (4), 489-524, 2002 | 90 | 2002 |
| The mind of the market: Compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics M Shermer Macmillan, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
| The Mind of the Market. M Shermer Scientific American 298 (2), 35-36, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience:[2 volumes] M Shermer Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2002 | 70 | 2002 |
| Surviving statistics. How the survivor bias distorts reality M Shermer Scientific American 311 (3), 94, 2014 | 61* | 2014 |
| The moral arc: How science makes us better people M Shermer Henry Holt and Company, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| The Shamans of Scientism. M Shermer Scientific American 286 (6), 35-35, 2002 | 56 | 2002 |
| The mind of the market: How biology and psychology shape our economic lives M Shermer Macmillan, 2009 | 53 | 2009 |