Atheism, humanism, freethought, &c. — Best nonfiction books in favour of

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A reading list inspired by Jerry Coyne’s post on the website _Why Evolution Is True_ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/i-got-the-book-you-know-the-one-with-the-best-arguments-for-god/
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett
3,167 members
40 reviews
3.8
6 Members
aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter, Condrat_Catalina
2
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
18,402 members
382 reviews
3.9
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, Luchtpint, AlanAndrews33
3
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
by Carl Sagan
9,636 members
104 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, kdemetter
4
God Is Not Great
by Christopher Hitchens
9,010 members
225 reviews
3.9
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, mspixieears
5
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
8,136 members
119 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter
6
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
7,701 members
110 reviews
4
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff
10
The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
1,743 members
33 reviews
4.2
4 Members
paradoxosalpha, AntAllan, AlanAndrews33, Nonconformisto
13
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan
1,750 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
14
God, the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
by Victor J. Stenger
892 members
15 reviews
3.9
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
15
Religion and Science
by Bertrand Russell
692 members
9 reviews
3.8
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33
16
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker
590 members
10 reviews
3.8
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : I wasn't very impressed with this book. Don't give it to you evangelical friends and expect them to de-convert.
17
The Historical Evidence for Jesus
by George Albert Wells
33 members
1 review
½ 3.3
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter
18
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
5,432 members
95 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
19
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by Bart D. Ehrman
4,430 members
109 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
20
The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking
3,812 members
113 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
21
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche
2,354 members
12 reviews
4
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
22
Jesus Interrupted
by Bart D. Ehrman
1,521 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
23
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
by Michel Onfray
1,186 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
25
The Essence of Christianity
by Ludwig Feuerbach
1,040 members
12 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
27
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions
by James Randi
821 members
11 reviews
4
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
28
How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
by Michael Shermer
820 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, AntAllan
Explanations
aulsmith: This didn't add much to Why People Believe Weird Things, but if you read this one first, I think the opposite will be true.
29
Atheism: The Case Against God
by George H. Smith
731 members
7 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
30
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich
709 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
31
Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It
by David Mills
612 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
32
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
by Julian Baggini
589 members
7 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
33
Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
by Greg M. Epstein
483 members
13 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, carolannvicki
34
The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
by A. C. Grayling
382 members
7 reviews
4
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
35
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
by Russ Kick
325 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
36
A Manual for Creating Atheists
by Peter Boghossian
290 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, hvg
37
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
by Thomas E. Kida
270 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
38
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
by Louise M. Antony
248 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, carolannvicki
39
Science and Religion
by Paul Kurtz
237 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
40
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
by Susan Jacoby
223 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
41
The Natural History of Religion
by David Hume
198 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, AntAllan
42
Religion without revelation
by Julian Huxley
190 members
3 reviews
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
43
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
by Dan Barker
182 members
6 reviews
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
44
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
by Richard Carrier
93 members
6 reviews
3
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
46
The Problem of God: A Short Introduction
by Peter Adam Angeles
25 members
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
47
Did Jesus Exist?
by George Albert Wells
19 members
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
49
Lead Us Not into Penn Station : Provocative Pieces
by Anne Nicol Gaylor
4 members
1 review
½ 4.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
50
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
11,933 members
135 reviews
4.2
Member
AntAllan
51
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
7,606 members
47 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
52
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
5,127 members
88 reviews
4.2
Member
AntAllan
53
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,924 members
202 reviews
4.2
Member
AntAllan
54
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume
4,393 members
31 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
55
Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
3,698 members
98 reviews
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : Too strident. Scares people more than convinces them.
56
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett
3,403 members
36 reviews
4.1
Member
AntAllan
57
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
3,394 members
78 reviews
4.1
Member
AntAllan
58
Letters from the Earth
by Mark Twain
3,031 members
40 reviews
4.1
Member
AntAllan
59
The Antichrist
by Friedrich Nietzsche
2,777 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
paradoxosalpha
60
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins
2,505 members
28 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
61
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
by David Hume
2,318 members
13 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
62
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins
2,259 members
48 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
64
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
by Bart D. Ehrman
2,066 members
26 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
65
The Future of an Illusion
by Sigmund Freud
1,933 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
AntAllan
66
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris
1,888 members
44 reviews
3.8
Member
AntAllan
67
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by Richard Dawkins
1,840 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
68
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
1,837 members
82 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
69
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss
1,769 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
70
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
1,509 members
23 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
71
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,449 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
72
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright
1,394 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
73
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by R. Crumb
1,390 members
53 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
74
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
1,366 members
27 reviews
4.1
Member
AntAllan
75
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,350 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
76
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch
1,273 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
77
Theological-Political Treatise
by Baruch Spinoza
1,181 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
78
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
1,171 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan
80
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
by Catherine Nixey
1,008 members
31 reviews
3.8
Member
Rodemail
81
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
by Robin Lane Fox
840 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Rodemail
83
God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
by Penn Jillette
632 members
39 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
AntAllan
84
The Woman's Bible
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
565 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
AntAllan
85
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
by John Allen Paulos
547 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
AntAllan
86
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
by A. C. Grayling
487 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
AntAllan
87
Why I Am Not a Muslim
by Ibn Warraq
451 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
AntAllan
88
Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris
395 members
6 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
89
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God
by J. L. Mackie
330 members
5 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
90
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
by Bruce Hood
319 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
AntAllan
91
The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
by Anthony Pagden
302 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
AntAllan
92
The Faith of a Heretic
by Walter Kaufmann
282 members
4
Member
AntAllan
94
The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
by Michael Martin
265 members
4.1
Member
AntAllan
95
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
by John W. Loftus
239 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
AntAllan
96
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
by Victor J. Stenger
229 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
97
Treatise on the Gods
by H. L. Mencken
223 members
8 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
AntAllan
98
Gospel Fictions
by Randel Helms
216 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
AntAllan
99
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
by John W. Loftus
201 members
2 reviews
4
Member
AntAllan
100
Atheism: A Reader
by S. T. Joshi
195 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
AntAllan