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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce... - by Steven Pinker
Archived Book Discussions 2020-2021
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars - by Jo Marchant
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - by Adam Grant
Books do Furnish a Life - by Richard Dawkins
Another Country - by James Baldwin
Dracula - by Bram Stoker
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - by Isabel Wilkerson
To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic - by Peter Wadhams
The Rosie Project: A Novel - by Graeme Simsion
The Righteous Mind - by Jonathan Haidt
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Archived Book Discussions 2018-2019
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good - by Colin Woodard
July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century - by Arthur C. Clarke
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution - by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - by James W. Loewen
The Last Unicorn - by Peter S. Beagle
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped - by Garry Kasparov
1984 - by George Orwell
Finding Purpose in a Godless World - by Ralph Lewis (Foreword by Michael Shermer)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari
The Time Machine - by H. G. Wells
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J. D. Vance
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Archived Book Discussions 2016-2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Master and Margarita - by Mikhail Bulgakov
A People's History of the United States - by Howard Zinn
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - by Daniel Dennett
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - by Jules Verne
A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
Uncle Tom's Cabin - by Harriet Beecher Stowe
God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction - by Dan Barker, foreword by Richard Dawkins
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - by Sebastian Junger
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition - by Ernest Hemingway
Up From Slavery - by Booker T. Washington
Soul Identity - by Dennis Batchelder
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt - by Richard Carrier
Archived Book Discussions 2014-2015
The Martian - by Andy Weir
Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser - by Guy P. Harrison
The Post-American World: Release 2.0 - by Fareed Zakaria
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel - by Harper Lee
Flowers for Algernon - by Daniel Keyes
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - by Lawrence Wright
Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan with Ann Druyan
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) (Pt. 1) - by William Shakespeare
Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century - by Lex Bayer and John Figdor
Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism - by Richard Carrier
Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus – by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Big Questions: Philosophy - Simon Blackburn
Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki - by Stacy Trasancos
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - by Jonathan Haidt
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - by George R. R. Martin
Tempesta's Dream: A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera - by Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Archived Book Discussions 2012-2013
The Drowning Girl - by Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga - by Sylvain Tesson
The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion: The Mormons - by David Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - by James Joyce
The Divine Comedy - by Dante Alighieri
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True - by Richard Dawkins
Dubliners - by James Joyce
My Name Is Red - by Orhan Pamuk
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - by Jared Diamond
The Man Who Was Thursday - by G. K. Chesterton
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - by Steven Pinker
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Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand
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Evolutionary Psychology - by Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett, John Lycett
Moby Dick; or, the Whale - by Herman Melville
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Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel - by Russell Banks
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - by Thomas S. Kuhn
Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition - by Thomas Hobbes
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The House of the Spirits - by Isabel Allende
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens - by Christopher Hitchens
The Falls: A Novel (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates
Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection - by D.M. Murdock
The Glass Bead Game: A Novel - by Hermann Hesse
A Devil's Chaplain - by Richard Dawkins
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - by Joseph Campbell
The Brothers Karamazov - by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
The Moral Landscape - by Sam Harris
The Decameron - by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright
The Tin Drum - by Gunter Grass
Good Omens - by Neil Gaiman
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - by Dan Ariely
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel - by Haruki Murakami
ALONE: Orphaned on the Ocean - by Richard Logan & Tere Duperrault Fassbender
Don Quixote - Translated by Edith Grossman
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - by Oliver Sacks
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - by Nikolai Gogol
The Passion of the Western Mind - by Richard Tarnas
The Left Hand of Darkness - by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism - by Howard Bloom
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - by Lewis Carroll
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle - by Chris Hedges
The Sound and the Fury - by William Faulkner
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene - by Richard Dawkins
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions - by Neil Gaiman
The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins
When Good Thinking Goes Bad - by Todd C. Riniolo
House of Leaves - by Mark Z. Danielewski
American Gods: A Novel - by Neil Gaiman
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved - by Frans de Waal
The Enormous Room - by E.E. Cummings
The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - by Christopher Hitchens
The Name of the Rose - by Umberto Eco
Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
Paradise Lost - by John Milton
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - by Kevin Phillips
The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists - by Dan Barker
The Things They Carried - by Tim O'Brien
The Limits of Power - by Andrew Bacevich
Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov
Orlando - by Virginia Woolf
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - by Robert Burton
50 reasons people give for believing in a god - by Guy P. Harrison
Walden - by Henry David Thoreau
Exile and the Kingdom - by Albert Camus
Our Inner Ape - by Frans de Waal
Your Inner Fish - by Neil Shubin
No Country for Old Men - by Cormac McCarthy
The Age of American Unreason - by Susan Jacoby
Ten Theories of Human Nature - by Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman
Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
Archived Book Discussions 2006-2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - by Philip Zimbardo
Responsibility and Judgment - by Hannah Arendt
Godless in America: Conversations With an Atheist - by George A. Ricker
Interventions - by Noam Chomsky
Religious Expression and the American Constitution - by Franklyn S. Haiman
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - by Bill McKibben
The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - by Jared Diamond
The Woman in the Dunes - by Abe Kobo
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction - by Eugenie Scott
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - by Michael Pollan
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 - by Robert Graves
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - by David Fromkin
The Time Traveler's Wife - by Audrey Niffenegger
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris
Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon
Value & Virtue in a Godless Universe - by Erik J. Wielenberg
Archived Book Discussions 2004-2005
The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow
The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong
The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling
Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History - by Lee Harris
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - by Antonio Damasio
Archived Book Discussions 2002-2003
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - by Al Franken
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - by Richard Dawkins
Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown
Future Shock - by Alvin Toffler

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