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)
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
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: 15 August 2021
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