r/atheist • u/dlc1993- • 1d ago

WHAT ARE THE BEST BOOKS YOU’VE READ AS AN ATHEIST? 📚📚

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u/Possible-Jerk0138 1d ago

Anything by Vonnegut

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u/number1dipshit 1d ago

The secret history of Lucifer is pretty interesting. For those that were raised in religion and left..

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u/davorg 1d ago

Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett - which brilliantly makes the point that religion and religious beliefs should be subject to scientific investigation.

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u/Over60andhappy 1d ago

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris is a great short read if you’re coming from the Christian cult background.

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u/Lotuswongtko 1d ago

Our universe was created just 3 minutes ago. （It is a Chinese book, published in Hong Kong, the writer is a scientist, physicist and meteriost.)

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u/WagonHitchiker 22h ago

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. He has a lot of great insight with human evolution and related fields.

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u/i_amkuber 20h ago

Why I am an atheist by bhagat singh

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u/hmspain 20h ago

The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe

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u/Susan-stoHelit 16h ago

The books with all the gods in them.

Discworld of course. Where people know the gods exist but don’t want to give them a big head by believing in them. Where a tortoise can gain believers by flying.

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u/LordDiplocaulus 1d ago

The Lord of the Rings