| a History M Hecht, D Jennifer New York, Harper San Francisco, 2003 | 268 | 2003 |
| The end of the soul: scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France J Hecht Columbia University Press, 2005 | 205 | 2005 |
| Stay: A history of suicide and the philosophies against it JM Hecht Yale University Press, 2013 | 92 | 2013 |
| Vacher de Lapouge and the rise of Nazi science JM Hecht Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (2), 285-304, 2000 | 51 | 2000 |
| The happiness myth: Why what we think is right is wrong J Hecht Harper Collins, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Stay: A history of suicide and the arguments against it JM Hecht Yale University Press, 2017 | 31* | 2017 |
| The solvency of metaphysics: The debate over racial science and moral philosophy in France, 1890-1919 JM Hecht Isis 90 (1), 1-24, 1999 | 27 | 1999 |
| French scientific materialism and the liturgy of death: The invention of a secular version of catholic last rites (1876-1914) JM Hecht French Historical Studies, 703-735, 1997 | 24 | 1997 |
| A vigilant anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers. JM Hecht Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 33 (3), 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity JM Hecht Atheism, and, 2003 | 12 | 2003 |
| The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to what Isn't Working Today JM Hecht HarperOne, 2008 | 11* | 2008 |
| Doubt JM Hecht A history, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Dúvida-Uma História JM Hecht Ediouro Publicações, 2005 | 5 | 2005 |
| Funny JM Hecht Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2005 | 3 | 2005 |
| The next ancient world JM Hecht Tupelo Press, 2001 | 3 | 2001 |
| Anthropological utopias and republican morality: political atheism and the mind/body problem in France, 1880-1914 JM Hecht Columbia University, 1995 | 2 | 1995 |
| To Live Is an Act of Courage. JM Hecht American Scholar 82 (4), 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
| Humor and poetry: Snapping out of it JM Hecht Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 22 (3), 351-360, 2009 | 1 | 2009 |
| Philosophy and Story, Stevens and Frost: Rewriting and Rereading JM Hecht Wallace Stevens Journal 41 (1), 126-135, 2017 | | 2017 |
| COWARDICE A Brief History JM Hecht AMERICAN SCHOLAR 84 (1), 109-111, 2015 | | 2015 |
