10 best-selling philosophy books like The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1 by Joshua Bowen

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The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1

By: Joshua Bowen

4.21

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side ac…

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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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  • nonfiction
  • atheism
  • history
  • religion
"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

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2. Great Ideas the Invisible Hand (Penguin Great Ideas)

By: Adam Smith

3.66

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"It is not from the benevolence of the Butcher, the Brewer or the Baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"

-Adam Smith, Great Ideas the Invisible Hand (Penguin Great Ideas)

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3. 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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  • history
  • christianity
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

By: Israel Finkelstein , Neil Asher Silberman

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use … read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. A History of Western Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history

7. god

By: Reza Aslan

3.71

Format: 412 pages,

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history

8. 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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9. Forged: Writing in the Name of God

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.50

Format: None pages,

s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Timesbestse… read more

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10. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson , Donald Goldsmith

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics… read more

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11. 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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12. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

By: Leon Festinger , Henry W. Riecken , Stanley Schachter

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

"We've all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the conv… read more

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13. 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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  • christianity
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

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14. The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1

By: Joshua Bowen

4.21

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side ac… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • judaism
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • old testament
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • skepticism
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15. Ten Things Christians Wish Jesus Hadn't Taught: And Other Reasons to Question His Words

By: David Madison

4.27

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries the gospels have been cherished devotional literature, and under the guidance of prea… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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16. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • judaism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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17. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

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18. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.25

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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19. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

By: Esther J. Hamori

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more

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13 Top history books like The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1 by Joshua Bowen

Transform Your Habits

Why Evolution Is True

Jerry A. Coyne

4.19

None

Barry S. Strauss , Eric H. Cline

None

Transform Your Habits

Great Ideas the Invisible Hand (Penguin Great Ideas)

Adam Smith

3.66

Transform Your Habits

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

Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

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13 must-read classics books like Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill, George Sher

Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume , J.B. Schneewind

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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