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A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn Non-Fiction #153: July, Aug. & Sept. 2017 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel Dennett Non-Fiction #152: Mar., Apr. & May 2017 Join the book discussion! Buy the book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Fiction #151: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2017 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Non-Fiction #150: Dec. '16 thru Feb '17 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Fiction #149: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2016 Join the book discussion! Read for FREE! God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction Dan Barker Non-Fiction #148: Sept., Oct. & Nov. 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Sebastian Junger Non-Fiction #147: June, July & Aug. 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition Ernest Hemingway Fiction #146: May, June & July 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington Non-Fiction #145: Apr., May & Jun. 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Soul Identity Dennis Batchelder Fiction #144: Feb., Mar. & Apr. 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt - by Richard Carrier Richard Carrier Non-Fiction #143: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2016 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Martian Andy Weir Fiction #142: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser Guy P. Harrison Non-Fiction #141: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Post-American World: Release 2.0 Fareed Zakaria Non-Fiction #140: Aug., Sept. & Oct. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Go Set a Watchman: A Novel Harper Lee Fiction #139: Aug., Sept. & Oct. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Fiction #138: June, July & Aug. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright Non-Fiction #137: May, Jun. & Jul 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan Non-Fiction We discussed this book 2x: #136: Feb. & Mar. 2015 #3: August 2002 Join the book discussion! Buy the book King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) William Shakespeare Fiction #135: Dec. 2014 and Jan. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century Lex Bayer & John Figdor Non-Fiction #134: Dec. 2014 and Jan. & Feb. 2015 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Sense and Goodness Without God Richard Carrier Non-Fiction #133: Sept., Oct. & Nov. 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Fiction #132: June, July & Aug. 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Big Questions: Philosophy Simon Blackburn Non-Fiction #131: June, July & August 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki Stacy Trasancos Non-Fiction #130: April, May & June 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt Non-Fiction #129: Mar., April & May 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One George R. R. Martin Fiction #128: Mar., April & May 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Tempesta's Dream: A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco Fiction #127: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson Non-Fiction #126: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2014 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Drowning Girl Caitlin R. Kiernan Fiction #125: Oct, Nov. & Dec. 2013 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga Sylvain Tesson Non-Fiction #124: Oct, Nov. & Dec. 2013 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, Book One: The Mormons David Fitzgerald Non-Fiction #123: Sept., Oct. & Nov. 2013 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Fiction #122: July, Aug. & Sept. 2013 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Fiction #121: June, July & Aug. 2013 Join the book discussion! 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Tolkien Fiction #113: Nov. & Dec. 2012 & Jan. 2013 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Fiction #112: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiction #111: Sept., Oct. & Nov. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Non-Fiction #110: Sept., Oct. & Nov. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Non-Fiction #109: July, Aug., & Sept. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks Fiction #108: July, Aug., & Sept. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett, John Lycett Non-Fiction #107: April & May 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Moby Dick: or, the Whale Herman Melville Fiction #106: March, April & May 2012 Join the book discussion! Book available FREE online! A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Fiction #105: Mar. & April 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel Russell Banks Fiction #104: Jan. & Feb. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn Non-Fiction #103: Jan. & Feb. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition Thomas Hobbes Non-Fiction #102: Jan. & Feb. 2012 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Fiction #101: Nov. & Dec. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens Non-Fiction #100: Oct. & Nov. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Falls: A Novel (P.S.) Joyce Carol Oates Fiction #99: Sept. & Oct. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection D.M. Murdock & Achary S. Non-Fiction #98: Aug. & Sept. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel Hermann Hesse Fiction #97: June & July 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love Richard Dawkins Non-Fiction #96: May, June & July 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Non-Fiction #95: March, April & May 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fiction #94: March, April & May 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Fiction #93: Jan. & Feb. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Moral Landscape Sam Harris Non-Fiction #92: Dec. 2010 & Jan. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Fiction #91: Dec. 2010 & Jan. 2011 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Road Cormac McCarthy Fiction #90: Nov. & Dec. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Grand Design Stephen Hawking Leonard Mlodinow Non-Fiction #89: Nov. & Dec. 2010 FACTS Selection Discussion coming soon! Buy the book The Evolution of God Robert Wright Non-Fiction #88: Sept. & Oct. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Tin Drum Gunter Grass Fiction #87: Sept. & Oct. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Good Omens Neil Gaiman Fiction #86: June, July & Aug. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Dan Ariely Non-Fiction #85: June, July & Aug. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Haruki Murakami Fiction #84: June, July & Aug. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book ALONE: Orphaned on the Ocean Richard Logan & Tere Duperrault Fassbender Non-Fiction #83: June, July & Aug. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes, Edith Grossman Fiction #82: April, May & June 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks Non-Fiction #81: April, May & June 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Nikolai Gogol Fiction #80: Mar. & Apr. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Passion of the Western Mind Richard Tarnas Non-Fiction #79: Feb. & Mar. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction #78: Jan. & Feb. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Genius of the Beast Howard Bloom Non-Fiction #77: Dec. 2009 & Jan. 2010 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Fiction #76: Nov. & Dec. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Empire of Illusion Chris Hedges Non-Fiction #75: Nov. & Dec. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Fiction #74: Nov. & Dec. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Extended Phenotype Richard Dawkins Non-Fiction #73: Nov. & Dec. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman Fiction #72: Sept. & Oct. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins Non-Fiction #71: Sept. & Oct. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book When Good Thinking Goes Bad: How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own Todd C. Riniolo Non-Fiction #70: Aug. & Sept. 2009 - FACTS Join the book discussion! Buy the book House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Fiction #69: Aug. & Sept. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book American Gods: A Novel Neil Gaiman Fiction #68: May, June & July 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Frans de Waal Non-Fiction #67: June, July & August 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript The Enormous Room E.E.Cummings Fiction #66: April & May 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Fiction #65: Mar. & April 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens Non-Fiction #64: Mar., April & May 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco Fiction #63: Feb. & Mar. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama Non-Fiction #62: Feb. & Mar. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Paradise Lost John Milton Fiction #61: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Kevin Phillips Non-Fiction #60: Jan. & Feb. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Fiction #59: Dec. 2008 & Jan. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists Dan Barker Non-Fiction #58: Dec. 2008 & Jan. 2009 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Fiction #57: Nov. & Dec. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism Andrew Bacevic Non-Fiction #56: Oct. & Nov. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Fiction #55: Oct. & Nov. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Orlando Virginia Woolf Fiction #54: Oct. & Nov. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not Robert Burton Non-Fiction #53: Sept. & Oct. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God Guy P. Harrison Non-Fiction #52: August & Sept. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Walden: Or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau Fiction #51: July & August 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus Fiction #50: June & July 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Our Inner Ape Frans de Waal Non-Fiction #49: May & June 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin Non-Fiction #48: May & June 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Fiction #47: April & May 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Non-Fiction #46: March & April 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Ten Theories of Human Nature Leslie Stevenson Non-Fiction #45: March & April 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Fiction #44: Feb. & March 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature Steven Pinker Non-Fiction #43: Jan. & Feb. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Fiction #42: Dec. 2007 & Jan. 2008 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Philip Zimbardo Non-Fiction #41: Nov. & Dec. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Responsibility and Judgment Hannah Arendt Non-Fiction #40: Nov. & Dec. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Godless in America George A. Ricker Non-Fiction #39: July, Aug. & Sept. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Interventions Noam Chomsky Non-Fiction #38: July, Aug. & Sept. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Interview Transcript Religious Expression and the American Constitution Franklyn S. Haiman Non-Fiction #37: April, May & June 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Bill McKibben Non-Fiction #36: April, May & June 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Non-Fiction #35: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond Non-Fiction #34: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2007 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Woman in the Dunes Abe Kobo Fiction #33: Nov. & Dec. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction Eugenie C. Scott Non-Fiction #32: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Non-Fiction #31: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 Robert Graves Non-Fiction #30: Sept. & Oct. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Daniel C. Dennett Non-Fiction #29: July, Aug. & Sept. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin Non-Fiction #28: July, Aug. & Sept. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger Fiction #27: June, July & Aug. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam Harris Non-Fiction #26: April, May & June 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Fiction #25: April, May & June 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Fiction #24: Feb. & March 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe Erik J. Wielenberg Non-Fiction #23: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The March: A Novel E. L. Doctorow Fiction #22: Dec. 2005 & Jan. 2006 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Ethical Brain Michael Gazzaniga Non-Fiction #21: Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2005 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism Susan Jacoby Non-Fiction #20: July, Aug. & Sept. 2005 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Non-Fiction #19: April, May & June 2005 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript The Battle for God Karen Armstrong Non-Fiction #18: Jan., Feb. & Mar. 2005 Join the book discussion! Buy the book The Future of Life Edward O. Wilson Non-Fiction #17: Nov. & Dec. 2004 Join the book discussion! Buy the book What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live A.C. Grayling Non-Fiction #16: Sept. & Oct. 2004 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History Lee Harris Non-Fiction #15: July & August 2004 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Carl Sagan Non-Fiction #14: May & June 2004 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God Michael Shermer Non-Fiction #13: March & April 2004 Join the book discussion! Buy the book Read Chat Transcript Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain Antonio Damasio Non-Fiction #12: Jan. & Feb. 2004 Join the book discussion! 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