Reading Room

These are some of the books that I’ve read since my enlightenment in July 2007; it’s likely that this page will always be under construction. The books are not listed in any particular order, but the selection focuses primarily on atheism, religion, science, philosophy and history.

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SHELF #1
Burr – Gore Vidal
Believing Bullshit – Steven Law
Liars for Jesus – Chris Rodda
50 Voices of Disbelief – Russell Blackford & Udo Schuklenk
A Voice of Reason in an Unreasonable World – Al Stefanelli
Seeing Further – Bill Bryson
About the Bible – Robert G. Ingersoll
The Moral Landscape – Sam Harris
The Needletoe Letters – Robert M. Price
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? – Greta Christina
Forged – Bart Ehrman
God! No – Penn Jillette

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SHELF #2
1984 – George Orwell
The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain – Mark Twain
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man – Robert M. Price
Candide – Voltaire
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett
Holy Horrors – James A. Haught
2000 Years of Disbelief – James A. Haught
Leaving Islam – Ibn Warraq
Losing My Religion – William Lobdell
Founding Fathers – Steven Waldman
Moral Minority – Brooke Allen

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SHELF #3
Doubt – Jennifer Michael Hecht
Freethinkers – Susan Jacoby
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist – Norman Geisler & Frank Turek
The Meaning of Jesus – N.T. Wright & Marcus Borg
How the Mind Works – Stephen Pinker
Thomas Jefferson – Christopher Hitchens
The Beak of the Finch – Jonathan Weiner
Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin
The Age of American Unreason – Susan Jacoby
The Canon – Natalie Angier
The Portable Atheist – Christopher Hitchens
Why I Am Not a Christian – Bertrand Russell

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SHELF #4
The Science of Good and Evil – Michael Shermer
Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene
The Origins of Virtue – Matt Ridley
The Flight of Peter Fromm – Martine Gardner
The Red Queen – Matt Ridley
The Fall of the Evangelical Nation – Christine Wicker
Lost Christianities – Bart Ehrman
Sceptical Essays – Bertrand Russell
God’s Problem – Bart Ehrman
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Misquoting Jesus – Bart Ehrman
The Reason Driven Life – Robert M. Price
Lost Scriptures – Bart Ehrman
Atheist Manifesto – Michael Onfray

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SHELF #5
I Sold My Soul on eBay – Hemant Mehta
Shopping for God – James B. Twitchell
The Daily Show and Philosophy – Jason Holt
The Rights of Man – Thomas Paine
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
Letters from the Earth – Mark Twain
The Age of Reason – Thomas Paine
Atheist Universe – David Mills
Jesus, Interrupted – Bart Ehrman
Russell: A Very Short Introduction – A.C. Grayling
The Lectures of Colonel R. G. Ingersoll (2 volumes)

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SHELF #6
Biblical Nonsense – Jason Long
Superstition in All Ages – Jean Meslier
Your Religion is False – Joel Grus
Irreligion – John Allen Paulos
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God – Guy P. Harrison
Why I Became an Atheist – John Loftus
Atheism – Julian Baggini
Philosophers Without God – Louise M. Antony
The Necessity of Atheism – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) – Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
Existentialism – Thomas Flynn

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SHELF #7
The Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan
In Defense of Secular Humanism – Paul Kurtz
Godless – Dan Barker
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
Natural Atheism – David Eller
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens
The End of Faith – Sam Harris
Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea – Daniel Dennett
Atheism Advanced – David Eller
1776 – David McCullough

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SHELF #8
The Crisis – Thomas Paine
Like Rolling Uphill – Dianna Narciso
Everything You Know About God is Wrong – Russ Kick
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast – Lewis Wolpert
Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Health Care Reform – Howard Dean, M.D.
The Greatest Show on Earth – Richard Dawkins
Parenting Beyond Belief – Dale McGowan
The New Atheists – Victor Stenger
Death by Black Hole – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Family – Jeff Sharlet
40 Days and 40 Nights – Matthew Chapman