 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $5.99 Probably the most popular book on atheism
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 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $8.63 Hitchens uses the context of his career as a journalist to showcase the how literally, religion poisons everything.
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 | The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $9.79 / Used from: $6.44 Compilation of writings from atheists Epicurus to Einstein to Salman Rushdie
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 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.89 The skeptics bible
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.85 On my reading list
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 | How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.50 More on my reading list from Shermer
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 | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.86 Reading LIst
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $3.00 Reading it now, shows how evolution should change the way we think about everything.
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 | The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.47 Sagan as always shows how the real world is so much more satisfying and mysterious than religious nonsense.
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.85 Not really skeptical but probably my favorite book. Feynman was so amazingly curious about everything.
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 | What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.82 More great tales of Feynman.
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 | Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.65 Reading list.
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 | Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $27.32 / Used from: $13.10 Classic hard sci-fi(read SCIENCE based sci-fi) book about an encounter with an alien civilization that is far more bizarre than anything found on Star Trek.
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 | Protector by Larry Niven
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.16 Worth it for the parts of the book that deal with interstellar sublight travel.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $4.75 If you love science you probably already know everything in this book but Bryson is a great writer and invokes the stories of scientists behind the discoveries.
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 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.07 Another of the holy trinity of atheists book along with Dawkins and Hitchens, its pretty good but I think Harris takes it a little to easy on Eastern Religions.
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 | Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage) by Sam Harris
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $4.99 A short book which address the feedback Harris got from writing "The End of Faith"
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 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.29 A good book explaining some cutting edge physics for a qualitative(non-mathematical) view point.
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 | Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.18 Haven't read this one but MIT has some video lectures on a class they taught based on this book. It deals with formal systems, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem and how that applies to human conscienceness.
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 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $2.25 Why not understand math makes people believe dumb things.
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