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General Reading List
Note: Please do not jump to conclusions about me (or anyone) based on a list of books. Just because I read it does not mean I like, support, endorse, or recommend it, and many books I like, support, endorse, and recommend may not be present in this sample. I am always happy to have a constructive conversation about books I have read or am reading.
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel García Márquez
Muhammad, by Karen Armstrong
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, by Lesley Hazleton
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, by Daniel J. Siegel
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, by Bart D. Ehrman
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad, by Lesley Hazleton
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation; by J. Philip Newell
The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer, by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, by Karen Armstrong
Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, by Lesley Hazelton
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, by N. T. Wright
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, by Tim Crane
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, by Marcus J. Borg
Anthology of Living Religions, 3rd Ed, by Mary Pat Fisher and Lee W. Bailey
Living Religions, 10th ed., by Mary Pat Fisher and Robin Rinehart
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions, by Daniel Smith-Christopher
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction; by Christopher Butler
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, 3rd Ed, by John R. Lott
The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, by Bart D. Ehrman
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction,
by A. C. Grayling
Jesus: The Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus, by Leo Tolstoy
Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner, by Paul Johnston
The Righteous Mind
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today, by John Shelby Spong
Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America, by James W. Fraser
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel C. Dennett
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Learn to Read Greek in 5 Days Paperback, by Georgios Papadakis
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, by Paul Bloom
Educating the Right Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality, by Michael W. Apple
This America: The Case for the Nation, by Jill Lepore
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg
Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View? by Normal Malcolm
The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilard de Chardin
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, by Bart Ehrman
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It, by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Happiness: A Very Short Introduction, by Daniel M. Haybron
Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, by Philip Shields
