 | Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $5.77 From the award winning author of Ishmael. Quinn explains his ideas and gives us a framework for walking away.
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.82 The most inspirational novel that I have ever read.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $5.00 Atheism has come out of the closet.
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 | Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.83 Of all of Chuck's great works this is the one that I keep returning to.
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 | Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $2.64 There are passages in this novel that will change your thought process.
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 | A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.01 Like all of the authors on this list you could add all of their works but this piece by Vonnegut shows that with age courage does not wane.
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 | Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics) by Thomas Paine
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.80 Maybe our President should read this and be reminded of where he stands.
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 | God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.20 Start with this thought experiment and read the sequel "The Religion War" and you'll never look at Dilbert the same way again
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 | A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $10.94 This should be the first Classroom text book we use in our public school system.
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 | How To Be Happy (Too Much Coffee Man) by Shannon Wheeler
Buy used from: $5.17 Any of the collected works of Too Much Coffee Man could be included here but this is a good start.
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 | Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.74 My favorite philosopher of all time. This book helped me as a teenager remove the remnants of my christian implants.
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 | Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.83 This book is a slow painful ride but the insight gained from it is better than any therapy.
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 | Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (Vol 1) by Jeff Smith
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $15.00 This is a true masterpiece of comic proportions.
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 | The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $4.91 Brave New World is the center of the dystopian world along with the wonderful We and 1984 but here we get a look into the mind of a true visionary and master thinker.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.50 How many Graphic Novels make Time magazines 100 greatest novels of all time? The answer is ONE and this is it.
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 | Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.95 Another positive step in the evolution of man.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.49 Animal farm may be my fave by Orwell but his telling of this story and the reality in which we live today should make us all shudder and take notice.
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