HGP Reading list

title author recommended by comment count is in HGP library publisher publication city publication year
2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt James A. Haught book Bill Maiden 2 no Prometheus Books Amherst, NY 1996
36 Arguments for the Existence of God; a work of fiction Rebecca Goldstein book Sheri Winkelman 1 no Vintage Books 2011
A Brief History of Disbelief with Jonathan Miller DVD Bill Maiden 1 yes Independent Production Fund New York, NY
A Peace to End All Peace David Fromkin book Howard Gorlin 1 no
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman Lisa Shannon book 1 yes Seal Press Berkeley 2011
A Very British Coup Chris Mullen book Don Feller 1 no
Age of Lincoln Orville Vernon Burton book Al Christians 1 no
American Infidel: Robert Ingersoll Orvin Larson book 2 yes Citidel Press New York 1962
Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding Mysteries) Bruce Alexander book Anne Henderson 1 no
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back Frank Schaeffer book Sue Emmett 1 no De Capo Press 2008
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Richard Rodriguez book Ruth Currie 1 no Viking Adult 1992
Don’t Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives George Lakoff book Roger Jacobson 2 yes Chelsea Green Publishing White River Junction, VT 2004
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson Jennifer Michael Hecht book 2 yes Harper One New York 2003
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism Susan Jacoby book 2 yes Henry Holt & Co. New York 2004
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe Greg M. Epstein book 2 yes Willam Morrow New York 2009
Hitch 22: A Memoir Christopher Hitchens book Marilyn Taylor 2 no Grand Central Publishing New York 2010
I Don't Cry, But I Remember: A Mexican Immigrant's Story of Endurance Joyce Lackie book 1 no University of Arizona Press Tuscon 2012
If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent Joshua Fost book Bill Maiden 1 yes Clearhead Studios 2007
In the Shadow of the Temple Dennis Lavery and Karen DiMilia DVD Bill Maiden 1 yes Pepita Productions 2009
Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God DVD Bill Maiden 0 no Indefatigable Productions
Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Nick Turse book Laurent Beuregard 1 no Picador New York, NY 2013
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Fred Kaplan book Al Christians 1 no Harper Perennial 2010
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist Dan Barker book 1 no Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. Madison, WI 1992
Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age A. C. Grayling book Bill Maiden 1 no Oxford University Press Oxford 2002
On Bullshit Harry Frankfurt book Laurent Beauregard 1 no
One Woman’s Fight Vashti McCollum book 2 no Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. Madison, WI 1993
Quantum Man (biography) Lawrence M Krauss book Laurent Beauregard 1 no W. W. Norton 2012
The Art of War Sun Tzu book Patty Thompson 1 no
The Atheism Tapes with Jonathan Miller DVD Bill Maiden 1 yes 116 Films New York 2004
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker book Bill Maiden 1 no
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker book Bill Maiden 1 no Viking Press New York 2002
The Blind Watchmaker - Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design Richard Dawkins book 2 no W. W. Norton New York 1996
The Coroner’s Lunch Colin Cotterill book Carl Levin 1 no
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins book 1 yes Houghton Mifflin Boston 2006
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True Richard Dawkins book 1 no Free Press New York 2011
The Origin of the Species Charles Darwin book 1 no Bridge-Logos Alachua, FL 2009
The Philosophy of Humanism Corliss Lamont book 1 no Frederich Ungar Publishing Co. New York 1982
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Christopher Hitchens book 2 yes Da Capo Press Philadelphia 2007
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution David Quammen book 2 no W. W. Norton New York 2006
The Survival of Jan Little John Man book Suzanne Thornton 2 no Penguin Books 1988
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson book Bill Maiden 3 yes Random House New York 2010
The Young Atheist's Handbook Alom Shaha book 1 yes Biteback Publishing London 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman book Bill Maiden 3 no Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
Welfare Brat: A Memoir Mary Childers book Helen Hewitt 1 no Bloomsbury USA 2006
West of Here Jonathan Evison book Ted Kozlowski 2 no Algonquin Books 2011
Why I Am Not a Christian and other essays on religion and related subjects Bertrand Russell book 1 no Simon and Schuster New York 1957
Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy David Leigh and Luke Harding book Sue Emmet 2 no PublicAffairs 2011
Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer--and turned its back on the middle class Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. book Bill Maiden 2 no Simon and Schuster 2011