14 Top nonfiction books like Free Will by Sam Harris

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Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo…

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1. 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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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
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  • science
"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

Cover of The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Bertrand Russell, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Richard Dawkins, Mark Twain, H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Hardy, Omar Khayyám, Ian McEwan, Penn Jillette, George Eliot, John Updike, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, Sigmund Freud, A.C. Grayling, Joseph Conrad, David Hume, Daniel C. Dennett, Charles Darwin, Sam Harris, Albert Einstein, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emma Goldman, Steven Weinberg, Anatole France, John Stuart Mill, Martin Gardner, Victor J. Stenger, James Boswell, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Hobbes, Leslie Stephen, Philip Larkin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Baruch Spinoza, Lucretius, A.J. Ayer, Carl van Doren, John Betjeman, Ibn Warraq, Michael Shermer, Chapman Cohen, J.L. Mackie, Charles Templeton, Elizabeth S.  Anderson

2. The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

By: Bertrand Russell , Karl Marx , George Orwell , Richard Dawkins , Mark Twain , H.P. Lovecraft , Thomas Hardy , Omar Khayyám , Ian McEwan , Penn Jillette , George Eliot , John Updike , Carl Sagan , Christopher Hitchens , Sigmund Freud , A.C. Grayling , Joseph Conrad , David Hume , Daniel C. Dennett , Charles Darwin , Sam Harris , Albert Einstein , Salman Rushdie , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Emma Goldman , Steven Weinberg , Anatole France , John Stuart Mill , Martin Gardner , Victor J. Stenger , James Boswell , H.L. Mencken , Thomas Hobbes , Leslie Stephen , Philip Larkin , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Baruch Spinoza , Lucretius , A.J. Ayer , Carl van Doren , John Betjeman , Ibn Warraq , Michael Shermer , Chapman Cohen , J.L. Mackie , Charles Templeton , Elizabeth S. Anderson

4.03

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

«Οι οπαδοί των νεράιδων δεν χτυπάνε την πόρτα σου για να σε προσηλυτίσουν. Δεν απαιτούν να διδάσκετ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • atheism
  • nonfiction
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"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you pro…"

-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

"By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply the…"

-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

"The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacr…"

-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so mod…"

-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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3. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
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  • science
"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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4. The Selfish Gene

By: Richard Dawkins

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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5. The Problems of Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science

6. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • atheism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
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"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

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8. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • atheism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • science

9. 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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10. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

By: Douglas E. Harding

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instanta… read more

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11. Letters to a Young Contrarian

By: Christopher Hitchens

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens ins… read more

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12. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

By: David Benatar

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Better Never to Have Beenargues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into… read more

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13. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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14. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

By: Daniel C. Dennett

3.74

Format: 646 pages,

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15. 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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16. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
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  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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17. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.99

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
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"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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18. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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19. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

By: Richard Dawkins

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science wri… read more

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"These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it."

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn’t wrong too?"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

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20. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

By: Annaka Harris

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more

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  • neuroscience
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21. On Having No Head

By: Douglas E. Harding

3.63

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thin… read more

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  • religion
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14 best-selling philosophy books like Free Will by Sam Harris

Transform Your Habits

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Bertrand Russell , Karl Marx , George Orwell , Richard Dawkins , Mark Twain , H.P. Lovecraft , Thomas Hardy , Omar Khayyám , Ian McEwan , Penn Jillette , George Eliot , John Updike , Carl Sagan , Christopher Hitchens , Sigmund Freud , A.C. Grayling , Joseph Conrad , David Hume , Daniel C. Dennett , Charles Darwin , Sam Harris , Albert Einstein , Salman Rushdie , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Emma Goldman , Steven Weinberg , Anatole France , John Stuart Mill , Martin Gardner , Victor J. Stenger , James Boswell , H.L. Mencken , Thomas Hobbes , Leslie Stephen , Philip Larkin , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Baruch Spinoza , Lucretius , A.J. Ayer , Carl van Doren , John Betjeman , Ibn Warraq , Michael Shermer , Chapman Cohen , J.L. Mackie , Charles Templeton , Elizabeth S. Anderson

4.03

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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

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The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

4.16

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Alan W. Watts

3.75

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Lisa Miller

4.15

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Tommy Wieringa

4.07

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