Literature
This is a list of literature I have read and highly recommend.
Ranging from varying philosophies and political engagements, I have drawn my inspiration,
including my defense of atheism, in part, from this collection. Although the list may seem erratic,
I believe it covers fully the best of the world view derived from science and reason,
and this views’ strongest opposition, political implications, and impact in the potential future of our society.
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature -Matt Ridley
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth -Thomas Jefferson
The Beauty of the Infinite : The Aesthetics of Christian Truth -David Bentley Hart
Rights of Man -Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology -Thomas Paine
Beyond Freedom and Dignity -B.F. Skinner
The Rainbow -D.H. Lawrence
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness -Joseph Conrad
The Anti-Christ, Curse on Christianity -Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human, A Book for Free Spirits -Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future -Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo, How One Becomes What One Is -Friedrich Nietzsche
Walden -Henry David Thoreau
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong -Marc Hauser
Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution -Leonard Shlain
The God Delusion -Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene -Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype -Richard Dawkins
River out of Eden -Richard Dawkins
Being and Time -Martin Heidegger
Leviathan -Thomas Hobbes
Natural Right and History -Leo Strauss
Chance and Chaos -David Ruelle
Mere Christianity -C.S. Lewis
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History -Howard Bloom
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century -Howard Bloom
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul-Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy -Jacob Burckhardt
Reflections on the Revolution in France-Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful-Edmund Burke
A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind -Edmund Burke
Consciousness Explained -Daniel Dennett
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life -Daniel Dennett
Freedom Evolves -Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon -Daniel Dennett
god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything -Christopher Hitchens
Letters to a Young Contrarian -Christopher Hitchens
Stranger in a Strange Land -Robert Heinlein
The Revolution Betrayed -Leon Trotsky
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot -Naomi Wolf
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America -Cullen Murphy
The Gods Themselves -Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun -Isaac Asimov
Atonement -Ian McEwan
The End of Faith -Sam Harris
Letter to a Christian Nation -Sam Harris
Nineteen Eighty-Four -George Orwell
Catch-22 -Joseph Heller
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist -Victor Stenger
The Satanic Verses -Salman Rushdie
Jewels of the Qur’an and its Pearls -Al-Ghazali
The Evolution of Sex -John Maynard Smith
Evolution and the Theory of Games -John Maynard Smith
The Major Transitions in Evolution -John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry
Cat’s Cradle -Kurt Vonnegut
The Divine Comedy -Dante Alighieri
We -Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating -David M. Buss
The Blank Slate -Steven Pinker
The Fountainhead -Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged -Ayn Rand
Principia Mathematica -Bertrand Russell
Why I am not a Christian -Bertrand Russell
Aeneid -Virgil
The Female Brain -Louann Md Brizendine
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
Paradise Lost -John Milton
Summa Theologiae I, II, III, IV -Thomas Aquinas
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man
far better than through mortal friends.
~ S. Weir Mitchell ~