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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Planet of Slums
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
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From Atheist to Bahá'í: A Journey Through Suffering
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters
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Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves
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Steven Hassan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
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3.73 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
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3.97 avg rating — 4,646 ratings
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
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Guy P. Harrison (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
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3.69 avg rating — 344 ratings
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THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY: SOLVED
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3.58 avg rating — 283 ratings
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A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
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3.99 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 27,212 ratings
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle
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Douglas J. Emlen (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 659 ratings
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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4.04 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
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Guy P. Harrison (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects
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4.14 avg rating — 387 ratings
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The Loch Ness mystery solved
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3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
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4.12 avg rating — 5,528 ratings
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The Transcendental Temptation
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4.33 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,136 ratings
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Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith
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3.78 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
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3.82 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
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Benjamin Radford (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Science Meets Alternative Medicine: What the Evidence Says About Unconventional Treatments
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Wallace Sampson (Editor)
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Rise of Christianity
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4.06 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
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Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry
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3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read
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Tim C. Leedom (Editor)
3.89 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence
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3.35 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 6,222 ratings
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Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
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3.86 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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Adam M. Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 140,411 ratings
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 2,247 ratings
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Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary
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Kenneth W. Daniels (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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4.26 avg rating — 5,893 ratings
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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
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3.78 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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4.01 avg rating — 22,189 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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4.36 avg rating — 199,340 ratings
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Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
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3.96 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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The Psychology of the Paranormal
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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3.91 avg rating — 14,853 ratings
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Cartas a un joven disidente
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4.13 avg rating — 12,732 ratings
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
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3.95 avg rating — 13,536 ratings
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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
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3.97 avg rating — 7,273 ratings
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The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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3.89 avg rating — 43,225 ratings
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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
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4.16 avg rating — 377 ratings
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How to be Reasonable: By Someone who Tried Everything Else
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
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3.98 avg rating — 13,746 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 32,053 ratings
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The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal
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Lynne Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
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3.90 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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Skeptoid: Critical Analysis Of Pop Phenomena
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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
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Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
3.70 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis Of Pop Phenomena
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4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Murmurs of Doubt: Twelve Skeptical Graphic Novellas
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Hocus Pocus #1: Mind Reading
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Hocus Pocus #2: Séance
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Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
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Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
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An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of His Philosophy
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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