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TOK Book List MD Version Master W Doc Revisable Freethought Society Recommended Reading List Tree of Knowledge Ornaments and Scan List This list is an ongoing project with new books and authors added every 3-6 months. If you would like to add a book and author, please send a high-resolution color scan of the front book cover to: [email protected] * Indicates an ornament has been made (no scan). ** Indicates that both a scan and ornament are available. A Antony, Louise M. Philosophers Without Gods Acharya, S. (aka Dorothy Milne Murdock) The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Appleman, Philip Sold Darwin** Suns of God Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie Who Was Jesus Darwin’s Ark Christ in Egypt The Labyrinth Shame The Devil Addis, Don Let There Be Light Cartoons for the Irreverent** Armstrong, Karen Alcantar, Fernando A History of God To the Cross And Back** The Battle for God The Spiral Staircase Ali, Ayann Hirsi Islam: A Short History Infidel** Holy War Nomad** A Short History of Myth The Caged Virgin The Bible: A Biography Heretic Through the Narrow Gate From Islam to America Buddha Prey In the Beginning Atheistisch Manifest (with Herman Philipse) Visions of God Submission (with Bret Stephens) The Battle of Ideas: Can the Beliefs that Feed Asimov, Isaac Terrorism be Changed? (with other authors) A Memoir** The Roving Mind** Allen, Norm R. Jr. The New Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science African American Humanism** Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury* Allen, Steve B Dumbth** Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality Baggini, Julian Meeting of Minds Atheism A Very Short Introduction* The Edge of Reason Alley, Robert Public Education and the Public Good** Balabat, Janina The Constitution & Religion** Conversations with an Atheist* Andrews, Seth Barber, Nigel Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason Kindness in A Cruel World** 1 Barbera, Donald R. Bernstein, R. B. Black and Not Baptist** Thomas Jefferson* Bard, Martin Berra, Tim M. The Peril of Faith** Evolution and The Myth of Creationism Barker, Dan Bierce, Ambrose God The Most Unpleasant Character in All The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Fiction** Fantastic Fables Godless** Life Driven Purpose** Blackford & Schuklenk Losing Faith In Faith** 50 Voices of Disbelief** Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children** Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong** Blackmore, Susan Maybe Yes, Maybe No** Dying to Live* The Good Atheist** Free Will Explained** Blaker, Kimberly Mere Morality The Fundamentals of Extremism* Atheist Tales (with Earl Lee) Boghossian, Peter Barrow, John A Manual for Creating Atheists** Theories of Everything** Parenting Without God (with Dan Arel) Bartholemew, Robert & Radford, Benjamin Boston, Robert The Martians Have Landed!** Taking Liberties** Why the Religious Right is Wrong About Batchelor, Stephen Separation of Church and State** Buddhism Without Beliefs** Close Encounters With the Religious Right The Most Dangerous Man in America? Belser, Charles Religious Liberty Under Fire Larry The Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Why We Still Need Public Schools Life** Bova, Ben Benedict, Marie The Sam Gunn Omnibus* The Only Woman in The Room* Briggs, Kenneth Bercholz, Samuel Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic The Buddha and His Teachings Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns Berg, Geoffrey Brockman, Chris The Six Ways of Atheism* What about Gods?** Berlinblau, Jacques Brockman, John How to Be Secular The New Humanists** The Secular Bible** The Higgs Bozon and Beyond Berman, Morris Brown, Dan Dark Ages America Origin** 2 Buckalew, Robin Chapman, Matthew The Diary of Mrs. Noah* 40 Days and 40 Nights* Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir Bush, Lawrence Waiting for God** Cicero, Marcus The Nature of the Gods and on Divination C Cohen, Elliot D. Cameron, Christopher What Would Aristotle Do?** Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism** Cohen, Randy The Abolitionist Movement The Good The Bad & The Difference* To Plead Our Own Cause** Comings, David E. Campbell, Joseph Did Man Create God?* The Power of Myth** Connolly, Brendan Carlin, George The Natural Religion When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?** The Astonishing Hypothesis Carlshausen, John Conrad, Jane Kathryn Religion Delusion** The Pillars of Religion: Ignorance, Indoctrination, Inadequacy Carney, C. G. Things I Wanted You to Know** Covington, Dennis Salvation on Sand Mountain* Carrier, Richard Sense & Goodness Without God Cowan, Eleanor A History of a Pedophile’s Wife** Carroll, Robert Todd The Skeptic’s Dictionary Coyne, Jerry Faith vs. Fact** Carroll, Sean B. Evolution 2.0 The Making of the Fittest** Why Evolution Is True From DNA to Diversity Billions of Years, Amazing Changes Spacetime and Geometry Darwin Devolves From Eternity to Here Speciation The Particle at the End of the Universe Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time Crick, Francis How Music and Mathematics Relate What Mad Pursuit Something Deeply Hidden Life Itself The Big Picture Of Molecules and Men The Higgs Boson and Beyond The Double Helix Dark Matter, Dark Energy The Astonishing Hypothesis** Carson, Rachel Crumb, R. Silent Spring** The Book of Genesis Illustrated* Cave, Stephen Cunningham, George Immortality** Decoding The Language of God** 3 D Science and Faith The Four Horsemen: The Conversation that Dacey, Austin Sparked an Atheist Revolution (Dennett, Hitchens, The Secular Conscience* Harris) Dan, Joseph Dees, Morris Kabbalah A Lawyer’s Journey** Darrow, Clarence DelFattore, Joan Why I Am an Agnostic** The Fourth R** Darwin, Charles Dennett, Daniel C. The Origin of Species* Consciousness Explained The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Breaking the Spell* The Voyage of The Beagle Freedom Evolves** The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Domestication The Conscious Mind The Blind Watchmaker Caught in the Pulpit (with Linda LaScola) Sweet Dreams Davies, Paul Brainchildren The 5th Miracle** Content and Consciousness Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Dawkins, Richard Consciousness A Devil’s Chaplain** From Bacteria to Bach and Back An Appetite for Wonder** Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Climbing Mount Improbable** Brainstorms The View from Mount Improbable Elbow Room Growing Up in the Universe* Kinds of Minds How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think* The Mind’s I River Out of Eden** The Intentional Stance The Ancestor’s Tale** Science and Religion (with Alvin Plantings) The Blind Watchmaker** Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and The Extended Phenotype** Language The God Delusion** The Philosophical Lexicon The Greatest Show on Earth** The Future of Atheism (with Alister McGrath) The Magic of Reality** The Four Horsemen: The Conversation that The Selfish Gene** Sparked an Atheist Revolution (with Hitchens, Unweaving the Rainbow** Hawkins, Harris) Brief Candle in the Dark Science in the Soul Denonn, Lester Outgrowing God The Bertrand Russell Dictionary of Mind, Morals, Viruses of the Mind and Matter** The Evolution of Life Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Dershowitz, Alan Science Finding Jefferson The Alabama Insert Why We Believe in God(s) Devoto, Bernard God’s Utility Function New Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder The Voyage of the Beagle 4 DiCarlo, Christopher Eller, David How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass** Natural Atheism* So You Think You Can Think** Atheism Advanced Dobrin, Arthur Epstein, Greg Spelling God with Two O’s* Good Without God** Ethics for Everyone: How To Increase Your Moral Intelligence Erikson, Eric Gandhi’s Truth Doerr & Menendez Religious Liberty and State Constitutions** Erickson, George A. Time Traveling With Science and the Saints** Doerr, Menendez, Swomley True North** The Case Against School Vouchers** Ericson, Edward L. Downey, Margaret The Humanist Way Tree of Knowledge** Erikson, Erik H. Druyan, Ann Gandhi’s Truth* Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Comet Evatt, Cris Cosmos: Possible Worlds The Myth of Free Will** The Demon-Haunted World (with Carl Sagan) F Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk* Faid, Robert W. A Scientific Approach to Biblical Mysteries Durant, Will The Story of Philosophy* Farrell, Paul Illustrated Stories From The Bible E Fast, Howard Eftimiades, Nicholas Citizen Tom Paine** Edward of Planet Earth** Feynman, Richard Egan, Laury Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!** The Outcast Oracle** Flew, Anthony Ehrman, Bart D. God: A Critical Enquiry Jesus, Interrupted** Misquoting Jesus Flynn, Tom The Trouble with Christmas** Einstein, Albert Galactic Rapture Essays in Humanism** Nothing Sacred The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief Eisler, Riane The Messiah Game The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future Disbelief 101 (with S.C. Hitchcock) 5 Forrest, Barbara & Paul Gross Gordon, Elan Creationism’s Trojan Horse The Dark Side of Faith* Frazier, Sir James Gottschall, Jonathan The Golden Bough* The Storytelling Animal* Freedom From Religion Foundation Gould, Stephen Jay Cartoons for the Irreverent* Rock Of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life Freely, John The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Aladdin’s Lamp* The Panda’s Thumb** Time’s Arrow Fruchtman, Jack Jr. Time’s Cycle Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom** Grafen, Alan and Mark Ridley G Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think Gardner, Martin Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?** Graham, Lloyd Deceptions and Myths of the Bible** Garst, Karen Women Beyond Belief** Granados, Luis Women v. Religion A Jefferson Bible** Damned Good Company** Gaskin, J. C. A. The Church of Exemption: A Farce with Footnotes Varieties of Unbelief
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