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title: Books that will level up your logic game
description: Despite the fact that the logic games (a.k.a. analytical reasoning) section of the LSAT was discontinued in 2024, you still need to know formal logic.
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“Logic games?! But didn’t the LSAT get rid of those?!”

Yes—*breathe*. 

Despite the fact that the logic games (a.k.a. analytical reasoning) section of the LSAT was discontinued in 2024, you still need to know some amount of formal logic to be successful in reading comprehension and logical reasoning, whether it’s probability, necessity, equivalence, material conditions, or some other essential logical concept. 

If you want to get a heads-up on your competition—and if the phrase *Boolean algebra* doesn’t make you break into a cold sweat—you might enjoy a few of these books.

[An Introduction to Formal Logic](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/an-introduction-to-formal-logic), P. D. Magnus

[An Introduction to Logic](https://broadviewpress.com/product/natural-deduction-2/), Richard T. W. Arthur

[An Investigation of the Laws of Thought](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15114/15114-pdf.pdf), George Boole

[A Pocket Guide to Formal Logic](https://broadviewpress.com/product/a-pocket-guide-to-formal-logic/), Karl Laderoute

[Beginning Mathematical Logic: A Study Guide](https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/LogicStudyGuide.pdf), Peter Smith

[Deductive Logic](https://www.hackettpublishing.com/deductive-logic), Warren Goldfarb

[Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits](https://hackettpublishing.com/formal-logic), Richard Jeffrey

[How We Reason](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-we-reason-9780198569763?cc=us&lang=en&), Philip Johnson-Laird

[Introduction to Logic and its Philosophy](https://archive.org/details/introductiontolo0000scho), Peter Schotch

[Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/introduction-to-logic_alfred-tarski/435011/item/#edition=3365522&idiq=8754286), Alfred Tarski

[Introduction to Logic: Predicate Logic](https://archive.org/details/introductiontolo0000posp), Howard Pospesel

[Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy](https://people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp-ebk.pdf), Bertrand Russell

[Logic](https://archive.org/details/logic00hodg), Wilfrid Hodges

[Logic: A Very Short Introduction](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/logic-9780198811701?cc=us&lang=en&), Graham Priest

[Logic for Philosophy](https://fitelson.org/piksi/piksi_22/logic_for_philosophy.pdf), Theodore Sider

[Logic Primer](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543644/logic-primer/), Colin Allen & Michael Hand

[Logic: The Laws of Truth](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691151632/logic?srsltid=AfmBOoq0QrFPudSWnARelps1-sAP0jl7dsmWG7Yfk1OHtqUfGM0LykT5), Nick Smith

[Logic Works](https://www.routledge.com/Logic-Works-A-Rigorous-Introduction-to-Formal-Logic/Falkenstein-Stapleford-Kao/p/book/9780367460297?srsltid=AfmBOoqZFKXv_sptPgLYiQTSJEF9AA7_cOFwiij0anAjJUfY-c0wSkwu), Lorne Falkenstein

[Meaning and Argument](https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Meaning+and+Argument%3A+An+Introduction+to+Logic+Through+Language%2C+2nd%2C+Revised+Edition-p-9781118390191), Ernie LePore

[Paradoxes](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/paradoxes/1634F4E927B9478D1538AB06E8861F4F), R. M. Sainsbury

[Philosophy of Logic](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.4159/9780674042445/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOorhCJJMzth4f5LnyYdcDKUTrj2vQw1ihKNIGN57iJnn_S7CVUB4), Willard Van Orman Quine

[Philosophy of Logics](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/philosophy-of-logics/951150505337A200EB152237BDF55A3B), Susan Haack

[Thinking about Logic](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/thinking-about-logic-an-introduction-to-the-philosophy-of-logic-opus_stephen-read/573017/?srsltid=AfmBOoqIBzbjIF-CzbH55FtTcFaoAzb6zgm0r9gEv0ZQZPO2c3fajWc4#edition=4771328&idiq=4602756), Stephen Read

[What is the Name of this Book?](https://cs.bme.hu/~szeredi/ait/Smullyan-What-is-the-Name-of-This-Book.pdf), Raymond Smullyan

 

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