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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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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/AT4JXYYYFYGAY/ref=cm_lm_fullview_name/104-3957281-7859943">T. Fuller Dean’s Listmania</a>

  1. 1.
    The Roving Mind
    by Isaac Asimov

  2. 2.
    Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics
    by Dan Barker

  3. 3.
    Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers
    by Dan Barker

  4. 5.
    The Twilight of American Culture
    by Morris Berman

  5. 7.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

  6. 9.
    The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914
    by J. W. Burrow

  7. 10.
    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
    by Antonio Damasio

  8. 13.
    Climbing Mount Improbable
    by Richard Dawkins

  9. 15.

  10. 17.
    The Illusions of Postmodernism
    by Terry Eagleton

  11. 18.
    ?
    The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism
    by Niles Eldridge

  12. 19.
    The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism
    by Susan Pearson

  13. 21.
    Against Deconstruction
    by John Martin Ellis

  14. 23.
    Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law
    by Daniel A. Farber

  15. 24.
    Science Confronts the Paranormal

  16. 25.
    Paranormal Borderlands of Science

  17. 28.
    Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution
    by Douglas J. Futuyma

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

  19. 30.
    Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
    by Martin Gardner

  20. 31.
    The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

  21. 32.
    Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

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

  23. 36.
    Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age
    by A. C. Grayling

  24. 39.
    In Defense of Elitism
    by William A. Henry III

  25. 41.
    Science and Anti-Science
    by Gerald Holton

  26. 43.
    ?
    Possible and Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)
    by Francois Jacob

  27. 44.
    ?
    Dogmatic Wisdom
    by Russell Jacoby

  28. 45.

  29. 49.
    Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
    by Philip Kitcher

  30. 52.
    Ufos: The Public Deceived
    by Philip J. Klass

  31. 54.
    What Is Atheism?: A Short Introduction
    by Douglas E. Krueger

  32. 56.
    ?

  33. 57.
    The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism
    by Paul W. Kurtz

  34. 58.
    Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm
    by Paul Kurtz

  35. 59.
    In Defense of Secular Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  36. 60.
    The Courage to Become: The Virtues of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  37. 61.
    Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism
    by Paul W. Kurtz

  38. 62.
    Embracing the Power of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  39. 63.
    The Fullness of Life
    by Paul Kurtz

  40. 65.
    Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy
    by Paul Kurtz

  41. 66.
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
    by Charles MacKay

  42. 67.
    Atheism: A Philosophical Justification
    by Michael Martin

  43. 68.
    Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (Prometheus Lecture Series)
    by Michael Martin

  44. 69.
    The Case Against Christianity
    by Michael Martin

  45. 70.
    The Impossibility of God

  46. 71.
    Science and Creationism

  47. 72.
    The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul
    by Richard Morris

  48. 73.
    Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
    by Robert L. Park

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

  50. 77.
    Unintelligent Design
    by Mark Perakh

  51. 78.

  52. 79.

  53. 83.
    Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
    by James Randi

  54. 84.
    Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction
    by Hy Ruchlis

  55. 86.

  56. 89.
    Religion and Science
    by Bertrand Russell

  57. 90.

  58. 93.
    How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
    by Michael Shermer

  59. 94.
    The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
    by Michael Shermer

  60. 96.
    Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf)
    by George H. Smith

  61. 97.
    Why Atheism?
    by George H. Smith

  62. 98.
    Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies
    by George H. Smith

  63. 101.
    Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
    by Christina Hoff Sommers

  64. 102.
    Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
    by Bruce S. Thornton

  65. 104.
    Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
    by Stuart A. Vyse

  66. 106.
    Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
    by Steven Weinberg

  67. 108.
    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
    by Edward Osborne Wilson

  68. 110.
    The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism
    by Jon Alston

  69. 112.
    Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
    by Barbara Forrest

  70. 114.

  71. 115.
    Secular Humanist Declaration
    by Paul Kurtz

  72. 117.
    Humanist Manifesto 2000
    by Paul Kurtz

  73. 120.
    The Social Record of Christianity
    by Joseph McCabe

  74. 121.
    ?
    The logic and virtue of atheism
    by Joseph McCabe

  75. 122.
    ?
    Does Atheism Rest Its Case on Logic?
    by Joseph McCabe

  76. 124.

  77. 125.
    Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
    by Susan Jacoby

  78. 126.

  79. 129.

  80. 130.

  81. 133.
    Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy
    by Arthur N. Strahler

  82. 134.
    Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
    by Eugenie Scott

  83. 136.
    DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE
    by Daniel C. Dennett

  84. 137.
    Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    by Daniel C. Dennett

  85. 138.
    Religion Explained
    by Pascal Boyer

  86. 141.
    Non-Existence of God
    by Nicholas Everitt

  87. 142.
    The Improbability of God

  88. 143.
    Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
    by Erik J. Wielenberg

  89. 144.

  90. 145.

  91. 146.
    In Search of Nature
    by Edward O. Wilson

  92. 147.
    On Human Nature: Revised Edition
    by Edward O. Wilson

  93. 149.
    ?
    In the Beginning
    by Isaac Asimov

  94. 150.
    Natural Atheism
    by David Eller

  95. 151.
    In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are Wrong
    by Christopher McGowan

  96. 152.
    Fallacies of Creationism
    by Willard Young

  97. 153.
    The Counter-Creationism Handbook
    by Mark Isaak

  98. 155.
    Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
    by Prof. Elliott Sober

  99. 156.
    ?
    Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind
    by Mortimer J. Adler

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