A collection of books on various brain-related topics. All are accessible, and most are a good read.
Andreasen, Nancy C. (2004). Brave new brain: Conquering mental illness in the era of the genome (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Bear, Mark, Connors, Barry, and Paradiso, Michael. (2016). Neuroscience: Exploring the brain (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Berkowitz, Ari. (2016). Governing behavior: How nerve cell dictatorships and democracies control everything we do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Cajal, Santiago Ramón y. (1989). Recollections of my life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Crick, Francis. (1994). The astonishing hypothesis: The scientific search for the soul. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Damasio, Antonio R. (1994). Descartes’ error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York, NY: Grosset/Putnam.
Dennett, Daniel C. (1992). Consciousness explained. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
Doidge, Norman. (2007). The brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. New York, NY: Penguin.
Dowling, John E., and Dowling Joseph L. (2016). Vision: How it works and what can go wrong. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dunbar, Robin, Barrett, Louise, and Lycett, John. (2005). Evolutionary psychology: A beginner’s guide (paperback ed.). Oxford, UK: One World.
Herman, Dorothy. (1998). Helen Keller: A life (paperback ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hobson, J. Allan. (1989). The dreaming brain. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Hubel, David H. (1988). Eye, brain, and vision. New York, NY: Freeman.
Kaku, Michio. (2014). The future of the mind: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
Kandel, Eric. (2007). In search of memory: The emergence of a new science of mind (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Norton.
Koch, Christopher. (2012). Consciousness: Confessions of a romantic reductionist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kramer, Peter D. (1997). Listening to prozac. New York, NY: Penguin USA.
LeDoux, Joseph. (2002). Synaptic self: How our brains become who we are. New York, NY: Penguin.
Luria, A. R. (1968). The mind of a mnemonist. New York, NY: Basic Books (also available with new introduction in paperback from Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1987)
Morange, Michel. (2001). The misunderstood gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Pinker, Steven. (1994). The language instinct. New York, NY: Morrow.
Pollen, Daniel A. (1993). Hannah’s heirs: The quest for the genetic origins of Alzheimer’s disease. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Posner, Michael I., and Raichle, Marcus E. (1994). Images of mind. New York, NY: Scientific American Library.
Sacks, Oliver. (1995). An anthropologist on Mars. New York, NY: Knopf.
Sacks, Oliver. (1987). The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
Schacter, Daniel L. (1996). Searching for memory: The brain, the mind and the past. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Snyder, Solomon H. (1989). Brainstorming: The science and politics of opiate research. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Thompson, Richard F., and Madigan, Stephen A. (2007). Memory: The key to consciousness (paperback ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Valenstein, Elliot S. (1986). Great and desperate cures: The rise and decline of psychosurgery and other radical treatments for mental illness. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Watson, Peter. (2016). Convergence: The idea at the heart of science. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Zeki, Semir. (1993). A vision of the brain. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.