The River of Consciousness is a collection of ten essays by the writer, naturalist, and neurologist Oliver Sacks.

[1] Some of the essays are dedicated to specific figures such as Darwin, Freud, and William James.

The River of Consciousness compiles the following essays: The Chicago Tribune reviewed The River of Consciousness, Praising Sacks' "ability to braid wide reading".

[2] In a review for the Wall Street Journal Laura J. Snyder notes that the volume "reminds us, in losing Sacks we lost a gifted and generous storyteller.”[3] In a review published by The Guardian the physician Gavin Francis writes: For those thousands of correspondents, The River of Consciousness will feel like a reprieve – we get to spend time again with Sacks the botanist, the historian of science, the marine biologist and, of course, the neurologist.

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