Atheism: The Basics
By: Graham Oppy
4.06
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deitie…
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1. Why Evolution Is True
By: Jerry A. Coyne
4.19
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized de… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
"These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
2. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
3. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
4. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
5. A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.94
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taki… read more
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"I’m forever realizing things too late."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"The light of morning decomposes everything."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
6. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
7. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer,… read more
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8. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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9. Reasonable Faith
By: William Lane Craig
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence. The average … read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
10. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
By: Sam Harris
3.90
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
11. The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
By: A.C. Grayling
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--all of them--right across the… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
12. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchm… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
13. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
14. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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15. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more
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16. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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- philosophy
- atheism
- nonfiction
"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
17. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.00
Format: None pages,
. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more
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18. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
By: Sam Harris
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more
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19. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
20. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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21. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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22. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.74
Format: 646 pages,
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23. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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24. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
25. Letter to a Christian Nation
By: Sam Harris
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriati… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- atheism
"There had been ample warning that a storm “of biblical proportions"-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"These data are unequivocal: we are building a civilization of ignorance."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
26. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
By: Sam Harris , Maajid Nawaz
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this deeply informed and absorbing exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to … read more
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27. This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
By: Ed Winters
4.64
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices ca… read more
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- nonfiction
"Why do dairy farmers deserve public support but oat farmers who produce oat milk don't?"-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet."-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"It is ironic that we believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathize with the animals who suffer at our hands."-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is th…"-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
28. How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith
By: Joshua Rasmussen
4.29
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Do you seek the truth? Do you value reason, science, and independent thinking? Are you skeptica… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
29. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
30. The Majesty of Reason: A Short Guide to Critical Thinking in Philosophy
By: Joseph C. Schmid
4.34
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
How do we think critically about issues in philosophy, science, and religion? How do we discover tr… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Atheism: The Basics
By: Graham Oppy
4.06
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deitie… read more
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