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Here is a very impressive list of recommended books I found at http://www.buildupthatwall.com/recommended.html

Yes, I spent the several minutes reading the entire list. Very impressive. Some I have and read, most I do not, but need to.

Alphabetical by Author

A
Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe by Amir D. Aczel
Breakdown of Will by George Ainslie
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs by Madeleine Albright
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen
Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Group… by Anonymous
The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam by Thomas Asbridge
Asimov's Guide to the Bible: A Historical Look at the Old and New Testaments by Isaac Asimov
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series) by Scott Atran
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

B
Leaving The Fold: Testimonies Of Former Fundamentalists by Edward T. Babinski
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire by Alessandro Barbero
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist by Dan Barker
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks) by John D. Barrow
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate by Tim Berra
Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth by Wayne R. Besen
C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Revised and Updated) by John Beversluis
Conversations on Consciousness: What the BestMinds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human by Susan Blackmore
The Oxford Companion to the Body by Colin Blakemore
The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates by Ned Block
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok
Honor: A History by James Bowman
When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Studies in Cultural History) by Paul Boyer
D.M. Bennett, The Truth Seeker by Roderick Bradford
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology by Paul Broks
A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church by Frank Bruni
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay: The Thirty-Nine Steps/Greenmantle/Mr. Standfast/the Three Hostages by John Buchan
Can We Be Good Without God?: Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe by Robert Buckman
Self-Contradictions of the Bible by William Henry Burr
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton
Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen by Robert E., Jr. Buswell
The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita by Thomas Byrom

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Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story (Canto) by A. G. Cairns-Smith
The Plague by Albert Camus
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History by James Carroll
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Chah
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative) by Jean-Pierre Changeux
The Northern Crusades: Second Edition by Eric Christiansen
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen by Jeremy Cohen
What's Left? by Nick Cohen
Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 by Linda Colley
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery by Francis Crick
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq by Thomas Cushman

D
The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin
Inquiries into Truthand Interpretation (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson) by Donald Davidson
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
Breaking The Spell by Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
Blasphemy: How the Religio Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence by Alan Dershowitz
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David Deutsch
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher
Good Sense Without God by Baron D'Holbach
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared M. Diamond
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Flight of the Garuda, Second Edition: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by Keith Dowman
Imagined Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Freeman Dyson

E
Belief or Non-Belief? by Umberto Eco
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment by Paul R. Ehrlich
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman
The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) by Bart D. Ehrman
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend by Bart D. Ehrman
Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker by David Eller
Natural Atheism by David Eller
The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [4 volumes] (Contemporary Psychology) by J. Harold Ellens
The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt

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The Psychological Roots Of Religious Belief: Searching For Angels And The Parent-god by M. D. Faber
The Rage and the Pride: International English Edition by Oriana Fallaci
Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self by Todd E. Feinberg
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition by Richard P. Feynman
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, And Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Self-Deception by Herbert Fingarette
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them by Owen Flanagan
The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief by Tom Flynn
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The End of the World: A History by Otto Friedrich
The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945 by Otto Friedrich
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo; Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud
Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition by Joaquin M. Fuster

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There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire by Michael Gaddis
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion by Neil Gaiman
The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas (P.S.) by Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Mind's Past by Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind by Ian Glynn
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior by Erving Goffman
Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings by Erving Goffman
Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit by R. D. Gold
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind by Elkhonon Goldberg
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Experience of Insight (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by Joseph Goldstein
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
Against All Gods by A. C. Grayling
Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World by A. C. Grayling
The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible by Ruth Hurmence Green
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Orient Express by Graham Greene
The Oxford Companion to the Mind by Richard L. Gregory
Animal Minds by Donald R. Griffin
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross
Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World by Nicholas Guyatt

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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West by Lee Harris
The End Of Faith by Sam Harris
Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus by William Harwood
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think by Marc Hauser
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Illustrated On The Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins by Robert Hazen
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht
The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations (World perspectives) by Werner Heisenberg
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy New Edition by Ted Honderich
Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial by R. Po-chia Hsia
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Jack Huberman
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Principal Writings on Religion including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religi… by David Hume
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

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Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches by Robert G. Ingersoll
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel

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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
The Principles of Psychology, Vol.1 by William James
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality by William James
Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
History of Christianity by Paul Johnson
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk

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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku
Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety by Wendy Kaminer
Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel
With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right by Esther Kaplan
The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter A. Kaufmann
Tom Paine: A Political Life (Grove Great Lives) by John Keane
All in the Mind: A Farewell to God by Ludovic Kennedy
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertzer
Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy by David I. Kertzer
The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner
Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (Philosophy in Action) by Philip Kitcher
Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness by David Ross Komito
The Atheist's Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts by Joan Konner
Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Awakening of Intelligence, The by Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil

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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll by Orvin Larson
The God Problem by Nigel Leaves
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark Lilla
Why I Rejected Christianity: A Former Apologist Explains by John W. Loftus

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Einstein's God: A Way of Being Spiritual Without the Supernatural by Todd Macalister
Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God by J. L. Mackie
Voting About God in Early Church Councils by Ramsay MacMullen
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin
The Improbability of God by Michael Martin
The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - 1913 by Karl Marx
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr
Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry Mcdermott
The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World by Colin Mcginn
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion by Dale McGowan
Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior by Lee C. McIntyre
The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the R… by Terence Mckenna
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence Mckenna
True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise by Terence Mckenna
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity by Darrin M. McMahon
Self-Deception Unmasked by Alfred R. Mele
H.L. Mencken on Religion by H. L. Mencken
Notes on Democracy by H. L. Mencken
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity by Thomas Metzinger
Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions by Thomas Metzinger
On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics) by John Stuart Mill
Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence by William Ian Miller
The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller
Faking It by William Ian Miller
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism by David Mills
Areopagitica by John Milton
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life by David P. Mindell
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921 by Ray Monk
Chance and necessity;: An essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology by Jacques Monod
The Complete Works by Michel de Montaigne
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of Madhyamika System by T. R. V. Murti

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Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction by Steven Nadler
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel
The View From Nowhere by Thomas Nagel
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel
The Last Word (Philosophical Essays) by Thomas Nagel
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul
The Holy Bible: King James Version from Thomas Nelson
The Antichrist (Great Books in Philosophy) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Church That Can And Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by John Thomas Noonan
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna : A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulnes… by Nyanaponika

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On the Eve of the Millenium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason by Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray
In Defense of Atheism by Michel Onfray
1984 by George Orwell
Coming Up for Air (Harvest Book) by George Orwell

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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics) by Thomas Paine
Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull: How To Tell The Difference : A Handbook of Practical Logic and Clear Thinking by Bernard M. Patten
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose
Inquisition by Edward Peters
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury by Kevin Phillips
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker
Where Is Science Going? by Max Planck
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains by Porphyry
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination by Swami Prabhavananda
Jesus Is Dead by Robert M. Price
The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts by Robert M. Price
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust
The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition by W. V. Quine

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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (The Ayn Rand Library, Vol V) by Ayn Rand
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
The Qur'an Translation by Sayed A. A. Razwy
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees
Religion and Society in Modern Europe (Making of Europe) by René Rémond
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health by Richard Rhodes
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives) (rough edge) by Matt Ridley
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.) by Matt Ridley
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections: with parallel French text by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers, Vol 1) by Richard Rorty
Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty
Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg
The Nature of Mind by David M. Rosenthal
The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
Islam in the World by Malise Ruthven

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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan
The Varieties Of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan
Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement by Lauren Sandler
Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy by George Santayana
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Jonathan Schell
The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Jonathan Schell
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (American Empire Project) by Jonathan Schell
The Vanquished Gods: Science, Religion, and the Nature of Belief by Richard H. Schlagel
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
The World As Will and Representation, In Two Volumes: Vol. I by Arthur Schopenhauer
What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches" by Erwin Schrodinger
My View of the World by Erwin Schrodinger
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power (Columbia Themes in Philosophy) by John Searle
Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World by John R. Searle
The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle
Rationality in Action (Jean Nicod Lectures) by John R. Searle
The Rediscovery of the Mind (Representation and Mind) by John R. Searle
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life by Lee M. Silver
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer
Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine by Richard P. Sloan
Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf) by George H. Smith
Ken's Guide to the Bible by Ken Smith
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith
Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality by Tara Smith
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life by Robert C. Solomon
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
The Essential Spinoza: Ethics And Related Writings by Benedictus de Spinoza
Atheism: A Beginner's Handbook: All you wanted to know about atheism and why by Philip A Stahl
Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (Ideas Explained) by David Ramsay Steele
God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger
The Significance of Phil Scepticism by Barry Stroud
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger by Montague Summers
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes

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The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth by Valerie Tarico
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) by Kip S. Thorne
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn
Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu by Yaroslav Trofimov
The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics) by Mark Twain
What Is Man? And Other Essays by Mark Twain
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Merlin's Tour of the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence by Peter Unger

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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi by Sri Munagala Venkataramiah
The Religion of Jesus the Jew by Geza Vermes
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick
Zen War Stories (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Brian Victoria
Zen at War (2nd Edition) by Brian Daizen Victoria
Creation: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

W
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson
DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Illusion of Conscious Will (Bradford Books) by Daniel M. Wegner
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe by Steven Weinberg
Idiot Proof: A Short History Of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom 2 Volume Set by Andrew Dickson White
Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson
God's Funeral: A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization by A.N. Wilson
Jesus by A. N. Wilson
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A. N. Wilson
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary Commemorative… by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman

Y
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev
The Dhimmi: Jews & Christians Under Islam by Bat Yeor
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide by Bat Yeor

Z
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? by Slavoj Zizek

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What the hell, I'm not doing

What the hell, I'm not doing anything important in the next 50 years/

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"Ta Daaa!"

"Ta Daaa!"

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