77 highly recommended atheist-related books
This week I asked on Twitter and Facebook about people's favourite atheist-related books, and why.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins was recommended as many times as the next three books combined. The Bible took second place, with its power to convince people of atheism edging it ahead of God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Also popular were books by Phillip Pullman, Sam Harris, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Dennett, Douglas Adams, Michael Shermer, Julian Baggini, Pascal Boyer, Nietzsche, Carl Sagan and Derren Brown.
But the most fascinating part is the eclectic list of books recommended once. You may not have heard of all of them, but each is a book that somebody, somewhere, believes to be a valuable read for anybody interested in finding out more about atheism, reality or morality.
Here’s the full list, along with some of the reasons that people gave as to why this was their favourite atheist-related book.
77 highly-recommended atheist-related books
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins was recommended as many times as the next three books combined. The Bible took second place, with its power to convince people of atheism edging it ahead of God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Also popular were books by Phillip Pullman, Sam Harris, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Dennett, Douglas Adams, Michael Shermer, Julian Baggini, Pascal Boyer, Nietzsche, Carl Sagan and Derren Brown.
But the most fascinating part is the eclectic list of books recommended once. You may not have heard of all of them, but each is a book that somebody, somewhere, believes to be a valuable read for anybody interested in finding out more about atheism, reality or morality.
Here’s the full list, along with some of the reasons that people gave as to why this was their favourite atheist-related book.
77 highly-recommended atheist-related books
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Permalink Reply by Dave G on -
A good list, a number of which I've read, some of which are on my to-read list, and some of which I'd not heard of.
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Permalink Reply by Serotonin Wraith on -
I've read/heard on audio book 11 of them, and there's a few there I'm getting to soon. Good list. I wish I could just download the knowledge into my brain to save time.
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Permalink Reply by Rev. James Thomas Hicks, D.D. on -
Thanks for this list. It'll help with my bad memory of rememberin' titles to look up.
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Permalink Reply by SabreNation on -
Hey sweet, I was quoted among the blurbs for God Is Not Great! :p
Lots of stuff I've never read down in the 1-4 recommendation area, I'll have to add those to my to-read list. Great work Michael.
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