Atheism, humanism, freethought, &c. — Best nonfiction books in favour of

Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation

16,954 medlemmer

367 anmeldelser

3.9

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, Luchtpint, AlanAndrews33

3

af Carl Sagan

8,372 medlemmer

87 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, kdemetter

4

Gud er ikke stor: Hvordan religion forpester alt

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

8,208 medlemmer

202 anmeldelser

3.9

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, mspixieears

5

af Carl Sagan

7,093 medlemmer

106 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter

6

A Brief History of Time

af Stephen Hawking

6,836 medlemmer

99 anmeldelser

4

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff

7

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

af Bertrand Russell

4,053 medlemmer

39 anmeldelser

3.9

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, AlanAndrews33

8

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

af Michael Shermer

2,432 medlemmer

40 anmeldelser

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

9

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

af Israel Finkelstein

1,325 medlemmer

24 anmeldelser

4

4 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

10

The Blind Watchmaker

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

6,362 medlemmer

59 anmeldelser

4.1

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

11

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

2,529 medlemmer

27 anmeldelser

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

12

af Carl Sagan

1,572 medlemmer

32 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

13

The Age of Reason

af Thomas Paine

1,542 medlemmer

29 anmeldelser

4.2

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

14

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

af Victor J. Stenger

832 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

15

Religion and Science

af Bertrand Russell

617 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

16

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

af Dan Barker

536 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

3.8

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Forklaringer: aulsmith : I wasn't very impressed with this book. Don't give it to you evangelical friends and expect them to de-convert.

17

The Historical Evidence for Jesus

af G. A. Wells

31 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter

18

Troens fallit : religion, terror og fornuftens fremtid

af Sam Harris

5,085 medlemmer

92 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

19

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

Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

4,004 medlemmer

108 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

20

The Grand Design

af Stephen Hawking

3,324 medlemmer

111 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

21

af Friedrich Nietzsche

2,097 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

22

Jesus Interrupted

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

1,355 medlemmer

48 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

23

af Michel Onfray

1,103 medlemmer

24 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

24

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

The Essence of Christianity

1,018 medlemmer

30 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

25

af Ludwig Feuerbach

899 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

26

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

af Michael Shermer

778 medlemmer

26 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

27

How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science

af Michael Shermer

776 medlemmer

9 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan
Forklaringer: aulsmith: This didn't add much to Why People Believe Weird Things, but if you read this one first, I think the opposite will be true.

28

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions

af James Randi

753 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

29

Atheism: The Case Against God

af George H. Smith

696 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

30

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

af Thomas Gilovich

658 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

31

Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It

af David Mills

578 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

32

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

af Julian Baggini

525 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

33

Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

af Greg M. Epstein

424 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

34

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

af A. C. Grayling

315 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

35

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

af Russ Kick

305 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

36

Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

af Thomas E. Kida

254 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

37

A Manual for Creating Atheists

af Peter Boghossian

241 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, hvg

38

Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life

af Louise M. Antony

226 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

39

Science and Religion

af Paul Kurtz

216 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

40

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

af Susan Jacoby

194 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

41

The Natural History of Religion

af David Hume

181 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan

42

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

af Dan Barker

171 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

43

Religion without revelation

af Julian Huxley

169 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

44

Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

af Richard Carrier

81 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

3

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

45

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition-Lectures

af Robert Green Ingersoll

30 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

46

The Problem of God: A Short Introduction

af Peter Adam Angeles

20 medlemmer

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

47

Did Jesus Exist?

af George Albert Wells

17 medlemmer

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

48

God Doesn't; We Do: Only Humans Can Solve Human Challenges

af James A. Lindsay

6 medlemmer

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

49

Lead Us Not into Penn Station : Provocative Pieces

af Anne Nicol Gaylor

4 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

50

The Selfish Gene

Darwins teori: Om evolution, videnskab og sandhed

10,881 medlemmer

119 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: AntAllan

51

Critique of Pure Reason

af Immanuel Kant

6,623 medlemmer

44 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: AntAllan

52

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4,640 medlemmer

86 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: AntAllan

53

Ayaan

af Ayaan Hirsi Ali

4,594 medlemmer

193 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: AntAllan

54

af David Hume

3,871 medlemmer

27 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: AntAllan

55

Letter to a Christian Nation

af Sam Harris

3,452 medlemmer

94 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Forklaringer: aulsmith : Too strident. Scares people more than convinces them.

56

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

af Daniel C. Dennett

3,182 medlemmer

35 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: AntAllan

57

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

af Steven Pinker

2,871 medlemmer

72 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: AntAllan

58

Letters from the Earth

af Mark Twain

2,785 medlemmer

37 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: AntAllan

59

Antikrist

af Friedrich Nietzsche

2,414 medlemmer

28 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: paradoxosalpha

60

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Dialoger om den naturlige religion

2,342 medlemmer

28 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: AntAllan

61

af David Hume

2,030 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

4

Member: AntAllan

62

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

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

1,968 medlemmer

45 anmeldelser

4

Member: AntAllan

63

The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

1,917 medlemmer

25 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: AntAllan

64

af Robert Wright

1,876 medlemmer

21 anmeldelser

4

Member: AntAllan

65

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

The Future of an Illusion

1,741 medlemmer

20 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: AntAllan

66

af Sigmund Freud

1,732 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: AntAllan

67

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

af Sam Harris

1,691 medlemmer

40 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: AntAllan

68

Dødelighed

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

1,615 medlemmer

75 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: AntAllan

69

af Lawrence M. Krauss

1,526 medlemmer

42 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

70

Letters to a Young Contrarian