Best Atheist Books

[Minimalist]

I know lots of snot-spewing xtians who think Ehrman is the anti-christ because he dares tell them the facts about their silly ass bible.

I just finished Lost Christianities and it was a great read.

[Edwardo Piet]

All works of science.

Science alone certainly is a brain tonic.

EvF

[chris]

I'm not sure if you'd clasify it as an Atheist book but I'd thoroughly recomend Bill Bryson "A Short History of Nearly Everything" which is a great history of how science knows what it knows and doesn't know.

I would also recomend Richard Dawkins book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" which looks at the evidence for Evolution and is very good at explaining the evidence in a way that most people will understand.

All the best


Chris

[EggSpurt]

Greetings, I'm a newbie and this is my first post. First off, kudos on mentioning "the demon-haunted world", by Sagan. The book is a tour-de-force for combating irrational thinking and unsubstantiated beliefs. I'm presently reading Dawkins' "the greatest show on earth", but i'm only a few chapters in.

My recommendation (and i'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here already) is Sam Harris' book "the end of faith". Sam has a true talent for taking 21st century realities and contrasting them with and superimposing them over long-held religious beliefs, and the results really pack a punch when presented in such context.

My next reads on the subject will be some of Dan Dennett's books, specifically "darwin's dangerous idea", and "breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon".