Humanist Society of Gainesville

The Humanist Society of Gainesville offers a lending library for members only.  To request a book, contact us at [email protected].

If you’d like to add a title to our library, or make a recommendation for interested readers, please leave a comment below!

Title	Author
The Mighty and the Almighty	Madeleine Albright
Moral Minority – Our Skeptical Founding Fathers	Brooke Allen
The Battle For God – A History of Fundamentalism	Karen Armstrong
No God but God	Reza Aslan
Losing Faith In Faith	Dan Barker
In Praise of Doubt	P. Bergen, A. Zyderveld
Why Evolution is True	Jerry A. Coyne
The Ancestor’s Tale	Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design	Richard Dawkins
The Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science and Love	Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins
Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon	Daniel Dennett
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea	Daniel Dennett
The Amazing Deception: A History of Christianity	Doyle Duke
Good without God	Greg Epstein
No Gods – No Masters	Annie Laurie Gaylor
Woe To The Woman – The Bible Tells Me So	Annie Laurie Gaylor
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism	Michelle Goldberg
Ever Since Darwin	Stephen Jay Gould
The Flamingo’s Smile	Stephen Jay Gould
The Richness of Life	Stephen Jay Gould
Against All Gods	A.C. Grayling
Meditations of a Humanist	A.C. Grayling
The Mystery of Things	A.C. Grayling
Russell – A Very Short Introduction	A.C. Grayling
What Is Good – The Search for the Best Way to Live	A.C. Grayling
The Best of Robert Ingersoll	Roger Greeley, ed.
The Born Again Skeptics Guide To The Bible	Ruth Green
Letter To A Christian Nation	Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape	Sam Harris
The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking
Doubt	Jennifer Hecht
Fear, Fact, Faith, Fantasy	John Henderson
God Is Not Great	Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22	Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist	Christopher Hitchens
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul	Edward Humes
What’s God Got To Do With It?	Robert Ingersol
Apes, Angels and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley and Evolution	William Irvine
The Age of American Unreason	Susan Jacoby
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism	Susan Jacoby
With God on Their Side: G.W. Bush and the Christian Right	Ester Kaplan
The Faith of a Heretic	Walter Kaufmann
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong	Russ Kick
Under the Banner of Heaven	John Krackauer
Transcendental Meditations	Paul Kurtz
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow	Larson & Marshall
The Mysterious Flame	Colin McGinn
Calling Bernadette’s Bluff	Dale McGowan
American Gospel	Jon Meacham
Atheist Universe	David Mills
New World New Mind	Ornstein & Ehrlich
American Theocracy	Kevin Phillips
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) Book 1	Phillip Pullman
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials) Book 2	Phillip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) Book 3	Phillip Pullman
Warriors of God – Richard the Lionheart & Saladin	James Reston
How to Read Darwin	Mark Ridley
The Impossible H.L. Mencken	Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Autobiography	Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not A Christian	Bertrand Russell
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Primate’s Memoir	Robert Sapolsky
The Family	Jeff Sharlet
Celebrities in Hell	Warren Allen Smith
God, the Failed Hypothesis	Victor Stenger
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason	Victor Stenger
Farewell to God: My reasons for rejecting the Christian Faith	Charles Templeton

Books on Issues of Interest for Humanists:

Women’s Issues

Title	Author
Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America	Ellen Chesler
Half the Sky	Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Science
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