Sam Harris: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion https://books.google.com/books?id=dmhNAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=sam+harris&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJpPGvmJrTAhWm4IMKHdJNCNEQuwUIIzAB#v=onepage&q=sam%20harris&f=false This seems a much kinder, gentler, Harris than I'm accustomed to. Owen Flanagan: The Problem of The Soul https://books.google.com/books?id=lOxpTf870j8C&pg=PA327&dq=owen+flanagan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPs7iJmZrTAhUG5IMKHUrPDZM4ChDoAQgjMAI#v=onepage&q=owen%20flanagan&f=false Flanagan is one of my very favorite contemporary philosophers. Not light reading, but not especially difficult either. Until the thinking about them part.