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

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A reading list inspired by Jerry Coyne’s post on the website _Why Evolution Is True_ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/i-got-the-book-you-know-the-one-with-the-best-arguments-for-god/
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
de Daniel C. Dennett
2,922 membres
37 critiques
3.8
6 Members
aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter, Condrat_Catalina
2
Pour en finir avec Dieu
de Richard Dawkins
16,908 membres
366 critiques
3.9
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, Luchtpint, AlanAndrews33
3
Cosmos
de Carl Sagan
8,314 membres
87 critiques
½ 4.4
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, kdemetter
4
Dieu n'est pas grand : Comment la religion empoisonne tout
de Christopher Hitchens
8,170 membres
202 critiques
3.9
5 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, mspixieears
5
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
de Carl Sagan
7,060 membres
105 critiques
½ 4.3
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter
6
A Brief History of Time
de Stephen Hawking
6,784 membres
99 critiques
4
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff
7
Pourquoi je ne suis pas chrétien, et autres textes
de Bertrand Russell
4,033 membres
39 critiques
3.9
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, AlanAndrews33
9
La Bible dévoilée
de Israel Finkelstein
1,318 membres
24 critiques
4
4 Members
aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
10
L'Horloger aveugle
de Richard Dawkins
6,329 membres
58 critiques
4.1
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
11
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
de Christopher Hitchens
2,524 membres
27 critiques
3.9
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33
12
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
de Carl Sagan
1,561 membres
32 critiques
½ 4.3
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
13
The Age of Reason
de Thomas Paine
1,524 membres
29 critiques
4.2
3 Members
paradoxosalpha, AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
14
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
de Victor J. Stenger
830 membres
14 critiques
3.9
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg
15
Science et religion
de Bertrand Russell
607 membres
7 critiques
3.8
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33
16
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
de Dan Barker
536 membres
10 critiques
3.8
4 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explications
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
de G. A. Wells
31 membres
1 critique
½ 3.3
3 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter
18
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
de Sam Harris
5,064 membres
92 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
19
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
de Bart D. Ehrman
3,985 membres
108 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
20
Y a-t-il un grand architecte dans l'univers ?
de Stephen Hawking
3,295 membres
111 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
21
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
de Friedrich Nietzsche
2,087 membres
11 critiques
4
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
22
Jesus Interrupted
de Bart D. Ehrman
1,344 membres
48 critiques
4
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
23
Traité d'athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique
de Michel Onfray
1,096 membres
24 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
24
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
de Bart D. Ehrman
1,014 membres
30 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
25
L'essence du christianisme
de Ludwig Feuerbach
883 membres
12 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
27
How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
de Michael Shermer
774 membres
9 critiques
4
2 Members
aulsmith, AntAllan
Explications
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
de James Randi
749 membres
10 critiques
4
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
29
Atheism: The Case Against God
de George H. Smith
695 membres
7 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
30
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
de Thomas Gilovich
655 membres
3 critiques
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
31
Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It
de David Mills
578 membres
12 critiques
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
32
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
de Julian Baggini
519 membres
7 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
33
Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
de Greg M. Epstein
419 membres
12 critiques
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, carolannvicki
34
The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
de A. C. Grayling
313 membres
7 critiques
4
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
35
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
de Russ Kick
305 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
36
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
de Thomas E. Kida
251 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
37
A Manual for Creating Atheists
de Peter Boghossian
241 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, hvg
38
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
de Louise M. Antony
225 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, carolannvicki
39
Science and Religion
de Paul Kurtz
215 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
40
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
de Susan Jacoby
193 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
41
The Natural History of Religion
de David Hume
181 membres
2 critiques
4.2
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, AntAllan
42
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
de Dan Barker
169 membres
5 critiques
4
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
43
Religion without revelation
de Julian Huxley
168 membres
3 critiques
3.8
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
44
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
de Richard Carrier
81 membres
6 critiques
3
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
46
The Problem of God: A Short Introduction
de Peter Adam Angeles
20 membres
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
47
Did Jesus Exist?
de George Albert Wells
17 membres
½ 3.5
2 Members
AntAllan, Rodemail
49
Lead Us Not into Penn Station : Provocative Pieces
de Anne Nicol Gaylor
4 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33
50
Le Gène égoïste
de Richard Dawkins
10,823 membres
119 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
AntAllan
51
Critique de la raison pure
de Immanuel Kant
6,557 membres
44 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
52
Le plus grand spectacle du monde
de Richard Dawkins
4,599 membres
86 critiques
4.2
Member
AntAllan
53
Ma vie rebelle
de Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,570 membres
193 critiques
4.2
Member
AntAllan
54
Enquête sur l'entendement humain
de David Hume
3,843 membres
26 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
55
La Bible de l'athéisme
de Sam Harris
3,438 membres
94 critiques
3.9
2 Members
AntAllan, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explications
aulsmith : Too strident. Scares people more than convinces them.
56
Darwin est-il dangereux ?
de Daniel C. Dennett
3,170 membres
35 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
57
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
de Steven Pinker
2,852 membres
72 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
58
Letters from the Earth
de Mark Twain
2,773 membres
37 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
59
L'Antéchrist
de Friedrich Nietzsche
2,410 membres
28 critiques
3.8
Member
paradoxosalpha
60
Les Mystères de l'arc-en-ciel
de Richard Dawkins
2,332 membres
27 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
61
Dialogues sur la religion naturelle, textes philosophiques
de David Hume
2,015 membres
11 critiques
4
Member
AntAllan
62
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
de Richard Dawkins
1,958 membres
45 critiques
4
Member
AntAllan
63
Les christianismes disparus : La bataille pour les Ecritures (French Edition)
de Bart D. Ehrman
1,909 membres
24 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
64
L'animal moral : Psychologie évolutionniste et vie quotidienne
de Robert Wright
1,869 membres
21 critiques
4
Member
AntAllan
65
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
de Richard Dawkins
1,736 membres
20 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
66
L'Avenir d'une illusion
de Sigmund Freud
1,724 membres
14 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
AntAllan
67
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
de Sam Harris
1,681 membres
40 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
68
Mortality
de Christopher Hitchens
1,604 membres
74 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
69
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
de Lawrence M. Krauss
1,514 membres
42 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
70
Letters to a Young Contrarian
de Christopher Hitchens
1,357 membres
21 critiques
4
Member
AntAllan
71
The Age of American Unreason
de Susan Jacoby
1,353 membres
47 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
72
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
de Robert Wright
1,295 membres
17 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
73
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
de Susan Jacoby
1,248 membres
27 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
74
La Genèse
de R. Crumb
1,221 membres
50 critiques
4
Member
AntAllan
75
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
de Marvin Harris
1,205 membres
19 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
76
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
de Matt Ridley
1,065 membres
14 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
77
Traité théologico-politique
de Baruch Spinoza
1,003 membres
12 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
78
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
de David Deutsch
986 membres
22 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan
80
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
de Robin Lane Fox
774 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Rodemail
81
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
de Catherine Nixey
716 membres
26 critiques
3.8
Member
Rodemail
82
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
de Ayaan Hirsi Ali
701 membres
29 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
83
God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
de Penn Jillette
583 membres
36 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
AntAllan
84
The Woman's Bible
de Elizabeth Cady Stanton
518 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
AntAllan
85
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
de John Allen Paulos
504 membres
12 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
AntAllan
86
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
de A. C. Grayling
443 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
AntAllan
87
Why I Am Not a Muslim
de Ibn Warraq
398 membres
6 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
88
Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
de Marvin Harris
356 membres
5 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
89
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God
de J. L. Mackie
299 membres
4 critiques
4.1
Member
AntAllan
90
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
de Bruce Hood
275 membres
4 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
91
The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
de Anthony Pagden
263 membres
5 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
92
The Faith of a Heretic
de Walter Kaufmann
262 membres
4
Member
AntAllan
93
The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
de Michael Martin
244 membres
4.1
Member
AntAllan
94
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
de Windsor Mann
240 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
AntAllan
95
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
de John W. Loftus
215 membres
8 critiques
3.8
Member
AntAllan
96
Treatise on the Gods
de H. L. Mencken
210 membres
7 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
AntAllan
97
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
de Victor J. Stenger
206 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
AntAllan
98
Gospel Fictions
de Randel Helms
196 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
AntAllan
100
Atheism: A Reader
de S. T. Joshi
182 membres
3 critiques
3.9
Member
AntAllan