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Books that will level up your logic game

Written by Avi Hegland-Fisher | June 22, 2025 2:46:39 AM Z

“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, P. D. Magnus

An Introduction to Logic, Richard T. W. Arthur

An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, George Boole

A Pocket Guide to Formal Logic, Karl Laderoute

Beginning Mathematical Logic: A Study Guide, Peter Smith

Deductive Logic, Warren Goldfarb

Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits, Richard Jeffrey

How We Reason, Philip Johnson-Laird

Introduction to Logic and its Philosophy, Peter Schotch

Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences, Alfred Tarski

Introduction to Logic: Predicate Logic, Howard Pospesel

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

Logic, Wilfrid Hodges

Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Graham Priest

Logic for Philosophy, Theodore Sider

Logic Primer, Colin Allen & Michael Hand

Logic: The Laws of Truth, Nick Smith

Logic Works, Lorne Falkenstein

Meaning and Argument, Ernie LePore

Paradoxes, R. M. Sainsbury

Philosophy of Logic, Willard Van Orman Quine

Philosophy of Logics, Susan Haack

Thinking about Logic, Stephen Read

What is the Name of this Book?, Raymond Smullyan