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Vaunella's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List - by T. Fuller Dean"

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A collection of books originally found as a collection of Listmania! recommendations on Amazon.com, by another user. I am creating the list on listsofbests.com for my own reference, but please feel free to make use of it.

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  1. 1.
    The Roving Mind
    by Isaac Asimov

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    Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics
    by Dan Barker

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    Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers
    by Dan Barker

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    The Twilight of American Culture
    by Morris Berman

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    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

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    The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914
    by J. W. Burrow

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    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
    by Antonio Damasio

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    Climbing Mount Improbable
    by Richard Dawkins

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    The Illusions of Postmodernism
    by Terry Eagleton

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    The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism
    by Niles Eldridge

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    The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism
    by Niles Eldredge

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    Against Deconstruction
    by John M. Ellis

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    Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law
    by Daniel A. Farber

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    Science Confronts the Paranormal

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    Paranormal Borderlands of Science
    by Kendrick Frazier

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    Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution
    by Douglas J. Futuyma

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  18. 29.
    Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
    by Martin Gardner

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    Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
    by Martin Gardner

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    The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

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    Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

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  22. 33.
    The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995
    by Martin Gardner

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    How We Know What Isn't So
    by Thomas Gilovich

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    Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age
    by A. C. Grayling

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    In Defense of Elitism
    by William A. Henry

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    Science and Anti-Science
    by Gerald Holton

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    The Possible and the Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)
    by Francois Jacob

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    Dogmatic Wisdom
    by Russell Jacoby

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    Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
    by Philip Kitcher

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  31. 52.
    Ufos: The Public Deceived
    by Philip J. Klass

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    What Is Atheism?: A Short Introduction
    by Douglas E. Krueger

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    The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism
    by Paul W. Kurtz

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    Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm
    by Paul Kurtz

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  36. 59.
    In Defense of Secular Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

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    The Courage to Become: The Virtues of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

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    Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism (16261)
    by Paul W. Kurtz

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  39. 62.
    Embracing the Power of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

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    The Fullness of Life
    by Paul Kurtz

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    Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy
    by Paul Kurtz

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  42. 66.
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
    by Charles MacKay

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  43. 67.
    Atheism: A Philosophical Justification
    by Michael Martin

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  44. 68.
    Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (Prometheus Lecture Series)
    by Michael Martin

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  45. 69.
    Case Against Christianity Pb
    by Michael Martin

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  46. 70.
    The Impossibility of God

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    The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul
    by Richard Morris

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    Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
    by Robert L. Park

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  49. 74.
    Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism
    by Robert T. Pennock

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    Unintelligent Design
    by Mark Perakh

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    The Enlightenment (Studies in European History)
    by Roy Porter

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  54. 83.
    Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
    by James Randi

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  55. 84.
    Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction
    by Hy Ruchlis

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    Religion and Science
    by Bertrand Russell

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    How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
    by Michael Shermer

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    The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
    by Michael Shermer

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  61. 96.
    Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf)
    by George H. Smith

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  62. 97.
    Why Atheism?
    by George H. Smith

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  63. 98.
    Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies
    by George H. Smith

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    The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
    by Arthur M. Schlesinger

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    Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
    by Christina Hoff-Sommers

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    Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
    by Bruce S. Thornton

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    Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
    by Stuart A. Vyse

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    Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
    by Steven Weinberg

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    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
    by Edward O. Wilson

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    The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism
    by Jon Paul Alston

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    Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
    by Barbara Forrest

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    Secular Humanist Declaration
    by Paul Kurtz

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  74. 116.
    Humanist Manifestos One and Two
    by P. Kurtz

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    The Social Record of Christianity
    by Joseph McCabe

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    The logic and virtue of atheism
    by Joseph McCabe

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    Does Atheism Rest Its Case on Logic?
    by Joseph McCabe

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    Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
    by Susan Jacoby

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    Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy
    by Arthur N. Strahler

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  85. 134.
    Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
    by Eugenie Scott

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  86. 136.
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    by Daniel C. Dennett

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  87. 137.
    Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    by Daniel C. Dennett

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  88. 141.
    Non-Existence of God
    by Nicholas Everitt

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  89. 142.
    The Improbability of God

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  90. 143.
    Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
    by Erik J. Wielenberg

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  93. 146.
    In Search of Nature
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  94. 147.
    On Human Nature
    by Edward O. Wilson

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    In the Beginning
    by Isaac Asimov

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  96. 150.
    Natural Atheism
    by David Eller

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  97. 151.
    In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are Wrong
    by Christopher McGowan

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  98. 152.
    Fallacies of Creationism
    by Willard Young

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  99. 153.
    The Counter-Creationism Handbook
    by Mark Isaak

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    Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind
    by Mortimer J. Adler

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