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  • Atheism—The Case Against God by George Smith

  • Why Atheism by George Smith

  • Scaling the Secular City by JP Moreland

  • American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll by Orvin Larson

  • The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

  • 2000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haught

  • The Disappearance of God by Richard Elliott Friedman

  • The Seven Mysteries of Life by Guy Murchie

  • Abel Sanchez by Miguel de Unamuno

  • Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzche

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

  • Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain

  • The Bible by Various Men

  • The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

  • Mythology’s Last Gods by William Harwood

  • Jewish Literacy by Joseph Telushkin

  • Jewish Wisdom by Joseph Telushkin

  • Chaos by James Gleick

  • How We Die by by Sherwin Nuland

  • The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith

  • The Illusion of Immortality by Corliss Lamont

  • The Red Queen by Matt Ridley

  • The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

  • Candide by Voltaire

  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

  • Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking

  • Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett

  • Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

  • Summer for the Gods by Larson

  • Woman – An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

  • The Other Bible edited by Willis Barnstone

  • From Lucy to Language by Donald Johannsen

  • The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

  • How We Believe by Michael Shermer

  • The Philosophy of Humanism by Corliss Lamont

  • Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell

  • Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer

  • Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

  • Unweaving The Rainbow by Richard Dawkins

  • Immortality by Paul Edwards

  • Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond

  • The Stranger by Albert Camus

  • Existentialism by Walter Kaufmann

  • The Wisdom of Confucious by Confucious

  • The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

  • The Meaning of Life edited by E.D. Klemke

  • Tower of Babel by Robert Pennock

  • Losing Faith in Faith by Dan Barker

  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzsu

  • Reversing Human Aging by Dr. Michael Fossel

  • Animal Rights and Human Morality by Bernard E. Rollin

  • In God We Trust, But Which One? by Judith Hayes

  • The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe

  • The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

  • Vegan by Erik Marcus

  • Farewell to God by Charles Templeton

  • That Which You Seek is Causing You to Seek by Cheri Huber

  • Zen and the Brain by James Austin

  • The Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau

  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

  • The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

  • Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor

  • Straw Dogs — On Humans and Other Animals by John Gray

  • Dhammapada translated by Ananda Maitreya

  • Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein

  • The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World by Colin McGinn

  • Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat Zinn

  • Open the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen by Kosho Uchiyama

  • Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn edited by Stephen Mitchell

  • Shambala Guide to Taoism by Wong

  • Science and Religion by Paul Kurtz

  • The Pursuit of Happiness by David Myers

  • No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Moon in a Dew Drop by Dogen

  • An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by DT Suzuki

  • The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

  • Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

  • Sweet Zen: Dharma Talks from Cheri Huber edited by Sara Jenkins

  • Intuition: Its Powers and Perils by David G Myers

  • The Book of Chuang Tzu translated by Martin Palmer

  • Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer

  • Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby

  • The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

  • Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett

  • Science Friction by Michael Shermer

  • Zen Buddhism — Selected Writings of DT Suzuki by DT Suzuki

  • Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders by Aaron T Beck, MD

  • Driven to Distraction by Hallowell and Ratey

  • Delivered from Distraction by Hallowell and Ratey

  • Leadership and Self Deception by Arbinger Institute

  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders by Webb, Amend, et al.

  • The Problem of the Soul by Owen Flanagan

  • Atheism: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers by Hunsberger & Altemeyer

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • Out of My Later Years by Albert Einstein

  • The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath

  • What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

  • Mumonkan — The Gateless Gate by Ekai

  • 10 Bulls by Kakuan

  • American Piety in the 21st Century by Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

  • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

  • The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner

  • Thinking Points by George Lakoff

  • Is God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant? : A Professor And a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity by Preston Jones

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

  • Dao De Jing – A Philosophical Translation by Ames and Hall

  • Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

  • The End of Faith by Sam Harris

  • Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett

  • God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

  • His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

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