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Psychology reading list: Oxford, St Hilda's College (Experimental Psychology and PPL)

Oxford, St Hilda's College (Experimental Psychology and PPL) lists 26 books for students about to start the course in Psychology. The list starts with Psychology by Graham Davey, Psychology by G. Neil Martin and Neil R. Carlson and Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology by Bruce V, Green PR, Georgeson MA. 1 of the books also appear on other Oxford and Cambridge lists we collected.

Source

Reading List for Experimental Psychology and PPL (University of Oxford), PDF. www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/psychology-reading-list-2026.pdf

Retrieved 3 October 2026. Check the source for the current year's version.

The 26 books

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  1. 1.
    Psychology
    Graham Davey
  2. 2.
    Psychology
    G. Neil Martin and Neil R. Carlson
  3. 3.
    Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology
    Bruce V, Green PR, Georgeson MA
  4. 4.
    Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook
    Eysenck MW, Keane MT
  5. 5.
    Social Psychology
    Hogg, M., & Vaughan, W. (Eds.)
  6. 6.
    An Introduction to Developmental Psychology
    Slater, A. & Bremner, A.
  7. 7.
    The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
    Ward, J
  8. 8.
    Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
    Bear MF, Connors B, Paradiso M
  9. 9.
    Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
    Agresti and Finlay
  10. 10.
    Statistical Methods for Psychology
    David Howell
  11. 11.
    Your Memory: A User's Guide
    Alan Baddeley
  12. 12.
    The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
    Paul Bloom
  13. 13.
    Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
    Sarah Jayne Blakemore
  14. 14.
    The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
    Matthew Cobb
  15. 15.
    Children's Minds
    Margaret Donaldson
  16. 16.
    Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
    Lisa Genova
  17. 17.
    The Philosophical Baby
    Alison Gopnik
  18. 18.
    The Human Brain
    Susan Greenfield
  19. 19.
    Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing
    Richard Gregory
  20. 20.
    Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain
    Masud Husain
  21. 21.
    30-Second Psychology
    Christian Jarrett
  22. 23.
    Trouble in Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook
    Jenni Ogden
  23. 24.
    Perception: A Very Short Introduction
    Brian Rogers
  24. 25.
    An Anthropologist on Mars
    Oliver Sacks
  25. 26.
    30-Second Brain
    Anil Seth

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How this list was made

We fetched the list from the institution's own page or PDF on the date shown and recorded each title and author as printed. We did not add books, and we copied no descriptions. Obvious misprints are corrected and marked. The extraction was done with AI assistance and checked against the source. Lists change every year, so check the source page before you buy anything.