14 Best atheism books like Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

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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…

"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 pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."

-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

If you liked the atheism plot in Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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  • christianity
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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2. 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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"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

3. 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
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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  • science
"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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4. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

By: Richard Dawkins , Dan Barker , Dan Barker

3.97

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines t… read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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  • science
"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" …"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural "higher" than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God i…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden wo…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an A…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

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5. 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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"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 need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not."

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

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6. Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

By: Richard Dawkins

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Audio CD

The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense… read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science
Cover of The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

7. 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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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
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8. 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
  • science
Cover of Deconverted: a Journey from Religion to Reason by Seth Andrews, Matt Dillahunty

9. Deconverted: a Journey from Religion to Reason

By: Seth Andrews , Matt Dillahunty

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In this 190-page autobiography, Seth Andrews (host of The Thinking Atheist) recounts his religious … read more

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  • philosophy
  • atheism
  • nonfiction
  • religion
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10. 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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"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

11. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By: Karen Armstrong

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascina… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

12. 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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13. God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

By: Bart D. Ehrman

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly,… read more

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14. 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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  • science
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

15. 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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16. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more

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17. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

By: Daniel C. Dennett

3.74

Format: 646 pages,

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18. 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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19. 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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  • atheism
  • philosophy
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"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

Cover of The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens

20. 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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"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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21. 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

8 Best audiobook books like Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Transform Your Habits

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Transform Your Habits

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

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

3.90

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10 best-selling history books like A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong

Transform Your Habits

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

Huston Smith

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

4.16

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