 | Principles of Neural Science by Eric Kandel
Buy new: $93.75 / Used from: $56.25 The classic neuroscience textbook; comprehensive, but now overdue for a 5th edition.
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 | Fundamental Neuroscience, Second Edition
Buy used from: $30.30 An advanced and comprehensive alternative to Kandel.
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 | An Introduction to Nervous Systems by Ralph J. Greenspan
Buy new: $38.71 / Used from: $19.92 A general undergraduate level text based on an evolutionary/comparative.
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 | Neuroscience
Buy used from: $16.50 A good graduate level neuroscience textbook.
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 | Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain by Mark F Bear
Buy new: $78.80 / Used from: $37.42 A good undergraduate level alternative to Kandel.
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 | The Synaptic Organization of the Brain
Buy new: $60.17 / Used from: $53.09 A classic circuit level look at brain wiring; very comprehensive. Highly recommended.
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 | Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems by Peter Dayan
Buy new: $27.74 / Used from: $20.00 A fairly recent and now classic text for systems & higher level neuroscience theory. Important.
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 | Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code (Computational Neuroscience) by Fred Rieke
Buy new: $35.38 / Used from: $26.50 Classic introduction to neural coding from the perspective of information theory.
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 | Cognitive Neuroscience, Second Edition by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Buy new: $117.00 / Used from: $10.00 A textbook which covers a wide range at from a cognitive/neuro perspective.
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 | Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology (Bradford Books) by Daniel Johnston
Buy new: $62.58 / Used from: $43.50 A recent and now classic textbook for single neuron function.
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 | Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience) by Christof Koch
Buy new: $60.21 / Used from: $53.12 A textbook on single neuron function from a computational perspective.
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 | From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System, Fourth Edition by John G. Nicholls
Buy new: $73.26 / Used from: $43.48 A classic textbook covering a wide range with a cellular-molecular emphasis.
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 | Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) by Bertil Hille
Buy new: $89.21 / Used from: $75.00 The classic textbook on single channels.
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 | Development of the Nervous System, Second Edition by Dan H. Sanes
Buy new: $65.78 / Used from: $51.10 The major textbook on neural development; recent.
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 | Molecular Basis of Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience by Eric J. Nestler
Buy used from: $11.35 A major textbook from a disease orientation.
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 | Principles of Brain Evolution by Georg F. Striedter
Buy new: $55.96 / Used from: $28.38 A recent textbook.
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 | Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy: Evolution and Adaptation by Ann B. Butler
Buy new: $112.49 / Used from: $99.00 A recent textbook.
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 | Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan (Medicine) by Larry W. Swanson
Buy new: $31.79 / Used from: $24.94 A very conceptually account of brain anatomy from an evolutionary and structural perspective.
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 | The Essentials of Conditioning and Learning by Michael P. Domjan
Buy new: $46.73 / Used from: $26.00 A psychology textbook that covers basics of conditioned animal behavior.
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 | An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology by J. R. Krebs
Buy new: $83.00 / Used from: $15.00 A classic on behavior from an ecological perspective.
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 | Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science) by Jaak Panksepp
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $42.07 An original contribution with a very broad perspective.
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 | Drive: Neurobiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Sexual Motivation (Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience) by Donald W. Pfaff
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $3.91 Emphasizes the author's extensive work on subcortical mechanisms in innate behavior.
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 | The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory by D.O. Hebb
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $43.00 An important summary of brain theory (1949) monograph that is still important over 50 years later.
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 | Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books) by Paul W. Glimcher
Buy new: $16.13 / Used from: $13.23 An integration of systems neuroscience with economics.
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 | Rhythms of the Brain by Gyorgy Buzsaki
Buy new: $58.36 / Used from: $49.26 A bird's eye view of the brain with an emphasis on oscillations and synchrony.
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 | I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self by Rodolfo R. Llinas
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $13.99 An even higher bird's eye view of the brain with an emphasis on oscillations and synchrony.
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 | Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $7.99 A very readable theory of cognition and emotion with an emphasis on neuropsychological insights (ie from brain damage).
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 | The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.29 A more challenging (and rewarding) theory of consciousness.
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 | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition by Robert M. Sapolsky
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $8.49 A popular book on the neurobiology of stress.
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 | The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch
Buy new: $38.71 / Used from: $20.00 An ambitious manifesto on one of the biggest mysteries.
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 | Corticonics: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex by M. Abeles
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $18.93 An older classic on the microanatomy of cortex.
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 | The Rat Nervous System, Third Edition (Paxinos, The Rat Nervous System)
Buy new: $244.00 / Used from: $200.00 A massive reference book on neuroanatomy.
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 | The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates - The New Coronal Set, Fifth Edition by George Paxinos
Buy used from: $272.86 The standard working manual for rat neuroanatomy.
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 | Brain Maps, Third Edition: Structure of the Rat Brain (Vol 3) by Larry Swanson
Buy new: $225.00 / Used from: $212.62 The alternative working manual for rat neuroanatomy.
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 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)
Buy new: $75.65 / Used from: $53.99 The book that defines mental illness.
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 | Introduction To The Theory Of Neural Computation, Volume I (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity) by John A. Hertz
Buy new: $54.00 / Used from: $14.95 A good introduction to neural network theory.
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 | Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics by David Marvin Green
Buy new: $78.00 / Used from: $51.99 A classic in quantitative methods for studying perceptual function.
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