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Christopher Hitchens Books
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,562 ratings — published 2007
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,205 ratings — published 2012
Hitch 22: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,331 ratings — published 2010
Arguably: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,871 ratings — published 2011
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,640 ratings — published 1995
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,709 ratings — published 2001
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,870 ratings — published 2007
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,858 ratings — published 2005
Why Orwell Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,142 ratings — published 2002
The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,517 ratings — published 2001
No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,848 ratings — published 1999
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by (shelved 14 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,897 ratings — published 2006
And Yet ... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,816 ratings — published 2013
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Nation Books)
by (shelved 9 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.74 — 420 ratings — published 1990
Hitchens vs. Blair: Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World (Munk Debates)
by (shelved 9 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.80 — 481 ratings — published 2011
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,956 ratings — published 2004
The Enemy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,174 ratings — published 2011
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.73 — 440 ratings — published 2003
Is Christianity Good for the World? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.84 — 885 ratings — published 2008
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,061 ratings — published 2011
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (Counterblasts #10)
by (shelved 7 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.86 — 988 ratings — published 1990
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.10 — 341 ratings — published 1993
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.90 — 246 ratings — published 1987
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.97 — 189 ratings — published 2008
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.98 — 213 ratings — published 1988
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.02 — 279 ratings — published 2000
Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.97 — 183 ratings — published 1984
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,831 ratings — published 1988
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.02 — 305,009 ratings — published 1947
Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.28 — 71 ratings — published 2011
When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.96 — 28 ratings — published 1994
Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.49 — 39 ratings — published 2002
Inequalities in Zimbabwe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 1981
Money (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.70 — 25,256 ratings — published 1984
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.11 — 318 ratings — published
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,631 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,041,931 ratings — published 1866
Animal Farm / 1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.30 — 212,795 ratings — published 1949
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,013 ratings — published 1941
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.04 — 255,089 ratings — published 1850
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,974 ratings — published 1919
How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,581 ratings — published 1939
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.93 — 415 ratings — published 2007
Lucky Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.75 — 31,682 ratings — published 1954
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,747 ratings — published 2002
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,639 ratings — published 1941
The Atheist Manifesto: A Declaration for Personal Liberty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 4.11 — 175 ratings — published 2016
The Best American Essays 2010 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.76 — 435 ratings — published 2010
George Orwell Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.80 — 597 ratings — published 2009
The Rachel Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as christopher-hitchens)
avg rating 3.57 — 11,248 ratings — published 1973
“Hitchens saw that the attack on the Satanic Verses was not an isolated occurrence, that across the Muslim world, writers and journalists and artists were being accused of the same crimes: blasphemy, heresy, apostasy, and their modern-day associates, 'insult' and 'offence'. And he intuited that beyond this intellectual assault lay the possibility of an attack on a broader front. He quoted Heine to me: 'Where they burn books, they will afterwards burn people.' hitchens referred to me as an 'uppity wog' before.”
― Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
― Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
“It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You suddenly realise that without having intended to think something, or while intending to think something, you can't quite do it anymore. It doesn't mean the same thing it used to. And you wonder why. And if you want to take an honest exploration of why that is, it may lead you in some alarming but fruitful directions.
That's actually why I called this book Hitch-22, because it's a minor-key echo of the great Joe Heller paradox; but in a lifetime that's had quite a lot of commitment in it, and allegiance, I've now reached a point where I'm mainly associated with a group of people who I suppose could be described as adamant for skepticism, or resolve for uncertainty. And this pits us against the people who are completely sure they have all the answers - or modern totalitarians. The ones who have all the information they need, and who indeed have the truth as it's been revealed to them - they're already qualified to tell us what to do. Opposition to that lot is the cause of my life, always has been, in a way, and opposition to all forms of totalitarianism, not just as a system of thought but in the mind.”
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That's actually why I called this book Hitch-22, because it's a minor-key echo of the great Joe Heller paradox; but in a lifetime that's had quite a lot of commitment in it, and allegiance, I've now reached a point where I'm mainly associated with a group of people who I suppose could be described as adamant for skepticism, or resolve for uncertainty. And this pits us against the people who are completely sure they have all the answers - or modern totalitarians. The ones who have all the information they need, and who indeed have the truth as it's been revealed to them - they're already qualified to tell us what to do. Opposition to that lot is the cause of my life, always has been, in a way, and opposition to all forms of totalitarianism, not just as a system of thought but in the mind.”
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