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Skepticism Books
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,659 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,002 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,713 ratings — published 2006
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,059 ratings — published 1982
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,125 ratings — published 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,711 ratings — published 2007
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,944 ratings — published 2018
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,671 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,790 ratings — published 2002
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,787 ratings — published 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,702 ratings — published 2004
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,595 ratings — published 2008
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,174 ratings — published 1952
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,516 ratings — published 1999
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,039 ratings — published 2010
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,576 ratings — published 1957
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,623 ratings — published 2000
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,221 ratings — published 2008
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,195 ratings — published 1991
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,985 ratings — published 2007
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,252 ratings — published 2009
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,782 ratings — published 2005
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 576 ratings — published 2003
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,326 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,102 ratings — published 1986
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,412 ratings — published 2009
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,789 ratings — published 2006
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 848 ratings — published 1987
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,099 ratings — published 2005
Doubt: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,327 ratings — published 2003
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,985 ratings — published 2006
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,805 ratings — published 2015
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,133 ratings — published 2013
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,589 ratings — published 2011
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,543 ratings — published 2000
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,425 ratings — published 2006
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,429 ratings — published 2020
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 632 ratings — published 1994
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 636 ratings — published 2001
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,373 ratings — published 2007
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,342 ratings — published 2007
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,591 ratings — published 2012
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 595 ratings — published 2011
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,832 ratings — published 1995
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,398 ratings — published 2012
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 603 ratings — published 1995
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,124 ratings — published 1841
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,612 ratings — published 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as skepticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,713 ratings — published 2004
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as skepticism)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,269 ratings — published 2018
“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
― Sceptical Essays
― Sceptical Essays
