Books about synesthesia

Here’s a list of books on synesthesia that I’ve read and can recommend. All can be bought online and some are available for download from pdfdrive.com.

IN ENGLISH (in chronological order of publication):

The Man who Tasted Shapes (Richard E. Cytowic). The MIT Press. 1993

 

Bright Colors Falsely Seen. Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge (Kevin T. Dann). Yale University Press. 1998 

Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens. How Synesthetes Colour their Worlds (Patricia Lynne Duffy). Times Books. 2001

 

A Mango-shaped Space (Wendy Mass). Little, Brown and Company. 2003. (Fiction for young readers)

The Hidden Sense. Synesthesia in Art and Science (Cretien Von Campen). The MIT Press. 2007

Born on a Blue Day (Daniel Tammet). Hodder Paperback. 2007

 

The Frog Who Croaked Blue. Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses (Jamie Ward). Routledge. 2008

 

Wednesday is Indigo Blue. Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman) The MIT Press. 2009

 

Mirror Touch. A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain (Joel Salinas). Harper One. 2017

Synesthesia (Richard E. Cytowic). The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. 2018

Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction (Julia Simner). Oxford University Press. 2019

Audio Book: Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens. How Synesthetes Colour their Worlds (Patricia Lynne Duffy, narrated by Appelusa). With research updates and synesthetic music. Available from Audible (in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Australia and Japan). 2021

Synesthetes: A Handbook. (Sean Day). Second edition. 2021. Available in PDF format, here.

IN SPANISH:

 

Sinestesia. El color de las palabras, el sabor de la música, el lugar del tiempo… (Alicia Callejas and Juan Lupiáñez). Alianza Editorial, 2012

 

IN FRENCH:

 

Des phénomènes de synopsie (Théodore Flournoy). Elibron Classics. Facsimile edition. 1893.

This page last updated: 6 March 2022

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