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

Du store Gud? : hur religionen förgiftar allt

16,909 medlemmar

366 recensioner

3.9

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

3

Kosmos

av Carl Sagan

8,315 medlemmar

87 recensioner

½ 4.4

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

4

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

8,168 medlemmar

202 recensioner

3.9

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

5

av Carl Sagan

7,061 medlemmar

105 recensioner

½ 4.3

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter

6

A Brief History of Time

av Stephen Hawking

6,786 medlemmar

99 recensioner

4

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff

7

Varför jag inte är kristen och andra essäer om religion och besläktade ämnen

av Bertrand Russell

4,033 medlemmar

39 recensioner

3.9

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, AlanAndrews33

8

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

av Michael Shermer

2,424 medlemmar

40 recensioner

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

av Israel Finkelstein

1,319 medlemmar

24 recensioner

4

4 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

10

Den blinde urmakaren

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

6,329 medlemmar

58 recensioner

4.1

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

11

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

2,526 medlemmar

27 recensioner

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

12

av Carl Sagan

1,561 medlemmar

32 recensioner

½ 4.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

13

The Age of Reason

av Thomas Paine

1,526 medlemmar

29 recensioner

4.2

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

14

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

av Victor J. Stenger

830 medlemmar

14 recensioner

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

15

Religion och vetenskap

av Bertrand Russell

607 medlemmar

7 recensioner

3.8

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

16

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

av Dan Barker

536 medlemmar

10 recensioner

3.8

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Förklaringar: 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

av G. A. Wells

31 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 3.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter

18

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

av Sam Harris

5,065 medlemmar

92 recensioner

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

3,986 medlemmar

108 recensioner

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

20

Den stora planen

av Stephen Hawking

3,297 medlemmar

111 recensioner

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

21

av Friedrich Nietzsche

2,087 medlemmar

11 recensioner

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

22

Jesus Interrupted

Handbok för ateister : en ateologisk betraktelse

1,345 medlemmar

48 recensioner

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

23

av Michel Onfray

1,096 medlemmar

24 recensioner

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

1,015 medlemmar

30 recensioner

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

25

av Ludwig Feuerbach

885 medlemmar

12 recensioner

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

av Michael Shermer

775 medlemmar

26 recensioner

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

27

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

av Michael Shermer

774 medlemmar

9 recensioner

4

2 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan
Förklaringar: 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

av James Randi

749 medlemmar

10 recensioner

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

29

Atheism: The Case Against God

av George H. Smith

695 medlemmar

7 recensioner

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

30

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

av Thomas Gilovich

655 medlemmar

3 recensioner

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

31

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

av David Mills

577 medlemmar

12 recensioner

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

32

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

av Julian Baggini

520 medlemmar

7 recensioner

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

33

Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

av Greg M. Epstein

419 medlemmar

12 recensioner

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

34

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

av A. C. Grayling

313 medlemmar

7 recensioner

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

35

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

av Russ Kick

305 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

36

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

av Thomas E. Kida

251 medlemmar

3 recensioner

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

37

A Manual for Creating Atheists

av Peter Boghossian

241 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, hvg

38

Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life

av Louise M. Antony

225 medlemmar

2 recensioner

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

39

Science and Religion

av Paul Kurtz

215 medlemmar

4 recensioner

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

40

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

av Susan Jacoby

193 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

41

The Natural History of Religion

av David Hume

181 medlemmar

2 recensioner

4.2

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan

42

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

av Dan Barker

169 medlemmar

5 recensioner

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

43

Religion utan uppenbarelse

av Julian Huxley

169 medlemmar

3 recensioner

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

44

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

av Richard Carrier

81 medlemmar

6 recensioner

3

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

45

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

av Robert Green Ingersoll

30 medlemmar

1 recension

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

46

The Problem of God: A Short Introduction

av Peter Adam Angeles

20 medlemmar

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

47

Did Jesus Exist?

av George Albert Wells

17 medlemmar

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

48

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

av James A. Lindsay

6 medlemmar

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

49

Lead Us Not into Penn Station : Provocative Pieces

av Anne Nicol Gaylor

4 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 4.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

50

Den själviska genen

Kritik av det rena förnuftet

10,826 medlemmar

119 recensioner

½ 4.3

Member: AntAllan

51

av Immanuel Kant

6,564 medlemmar

44 recensioner

3.9

Member: AntAllan

52

Så gick det till

En fri röst : min självbiografi

4,600 medlemmar

86 recensioner

4.2

Member: AntAllan

53

av Ayaan Hirsi Ali

4,570 medlemmar

193 recensioner

4.2

Member: AntAllan

54

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

av David Hume

3,843 medlemmar

26 recensioner

3.9

Member: AntAllan

55

Brev till en kristen nation

av Sam Harris

3,438 medlemmar

94 recensioner

3.9

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

56

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

av Daniel C. Dennett

3,170 medlemmar

35 recensioner

4.1

Member: AntAllan

57

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

av Steven Pinker

2,852 medlemmar

72 recensioner

4.1

Member: AntAllan

58

Brev från jorden

av Mark Twain

2,777 medlemmar

37 recensioner

4.1

Member: AntAllan

59

Antikrist : Hammaren talar

av Friedrich Nietzsche

2,411 medlemmar

28 recensioner

3.8

Member: paradoxosalpha

60

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

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

2,332 medlemmar

27 recensioner

3.9

Member: AntAllan

61

av David Hume

2,016 medlemmar

11 recensioner

4

Member: AntAllan

62

Verklighetens magi

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

1,958 medlemmar

45 recensioner

4

Member: AntAllan

63

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

1,909 medlemmar

25 recensioner

3.9

Member: AntAllan

64

av Robert Wright

1,869 medlemmar

21 recensioner

4

Member: AntAllan

65

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

En illusion och dess framtid

1,736 medlemmar

20 recensioner

3.9

Member: AntAllan

66

av Sigmund Freud

1,724 medlemmar

14 recensioner

½ 3.6

Member: AntAllan

67

Moralens landskap

av Sam Harris

1,681 medlemmar

40 recensioner

3.8

Member: AntAllan

68

Att dö

Ett universum ur ingenting : varför det finns någonting snarare än ingenting

1,604 medlemmar

74 recensioner

4.1

Member: AntAllan

69

av Lawrence M. Krauss

1,514 medlemmar

42 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

70

Letters to a Young Contrarian