Our Past Book Selections
These are the books we've read and discussed as a community over the years. Below each book you'll find a link to the corresponding discussion forum. And on some books you'll notice links to chat transcripts. This is because we've conducted live chats with many of our authors over the years. You may wish to see all chat transcripts in one index.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
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Empire of Illusion
by Chris Hedges
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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The Extended Phenotype
by Richard Dawkins
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Smoke and Mirrors
by Neil Gaiman
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
(Non-Fiction)
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When Good Thinking Goes Bad:
How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own
by Todd C. Riniolo
(Non-Fiction)
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
(Fiction)
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Primates and Philosophers:
How Morality Evolved
by Frans de Waal
(Non-Fiction)
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Dreams from My Father:
A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
(Non-Fiction)
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics,
and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips
(Non-Fiction)
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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became
One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker
(Non-Fiction)
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The Limits of Power:
The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew Bacevic
(Non-Fiction)
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On Being Certain:
Believing You Are Right
Even When You're Not
by Robert Burton
(Non-Fiction)
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
by Guy P. Harrison
(Non-Fiction)
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Ten Theories of Human Nature
by Leslie Stevenson
(Non-Fiction)
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
(Non-Fiction)
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How
Good People Turn Evil
by Philip Zimbardo
(Non-Fiction)
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Religious Expression and the American Constitution
by Franklyn S. Haiman
(Non-Fiction)
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Deep Economy:
The Wealth of Communities
and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
(Non-Fiction)
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The Third Chimpanzee:
The Evolution and Future
of the Human Animal
by Jared Diamond
(Non-Fiction)
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The Woman in the Dunes
by Abe Kobo
(Fiction)
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The Omnivore's Dilemma:
A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
(Non-Fiction)
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I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
by Robert Graves
(Non-Fiction)
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett
(Non-Fiction)
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A Peace to End All Peace:
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
Creation of the Modern Middle East Peace
by David Fromkin
(Non-Fiction)
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
(Non-Fiction)
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The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
(Fiction)
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Freethinkers: A History
of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
(Non-Fiction)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
(Non-Fiction)
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What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live
by A.C. Grayling
(Non-Fiction)
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Civilization and It's Enemies:
The Next Stage of History
by Lee Harris
(Non-Fiction)
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Pale Bue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
(Non-Fiction)
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How We Believe:
Science, Skepticism,
and the Search for God
by Michael Shermer
(Non-Fiction)
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Looking for Spinoza:
Joy, Sorrow
and the Feeling Brain
by Antonio Damasio
(Non-Fiction)
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken
(Non-Fiction)
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
(Non-Fiction)
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The Blank Slate:
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
(Non-Fiction)
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Unweaving the Rainbow:
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins
(Non-Fiction)
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Atheism: A Reader
edited by S.T. Joshi
(Non-Fiction)
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Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century
by Howard Bloom
(Non-Fiction)
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The Lucifer Principle:
A Scientific Expedition
into the Forces of History
by Howard Bloom
(Non-Fiction)
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Guns, Germs and Steel:
The Fates
of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
(Non-Fiction)
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The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
(Non-Fiction)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History
of the American West
by Dee Brown
(Non-Fiction)
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