The portable atheist: essential readings for the non-believer

1. From De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Book I / Lucretius

2. From Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Paraphrase from Several Literal / Omar Khayyam

3. Of Religion, from Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

4. Theological-Political Treatise / Benedict De Spinoza

5. Natural History of Religion / David Hume

6. Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq / James Boswell

7. Refutation of Deism / Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. Moral Influences in My Early Youth, From Autobiography / John Stuart Mill

9. Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right / Karl Marx

10. Evangelical Teaching / George Eliot

11. Autobiography / Charles Darwin

12. Agnostic's Apology / Leslie Stephen

13. Miracle / Anatole France

14. Thoughts of God, From Fables of Man / Mark Twain

15. Author's Note to The Shadow Line / Joseph Conrad

16. God's Funeral / Thomas Hardy

17. Philosophy of Atheism / Emma Goldman

18. Letter on Religion / H. P. Lovecraft

19. Why I Am An Unbeliever / Carl Van Doren

20. Memorial Service / H. L. Mencken

21. From The Future of an Illusion / Sigmund Freud

22. Selected Writings on Religion / Albert Einstein

23. From A Clergyman's Daughter / George Orwell

24. In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman

25. Monism and Religion / Chapman Cohen

26. Outline of Intellectual Rubbish / Bertrand Russell

27. Aubade / Philip Larkin

28. Wandering Jew and the Second Coming / Martin Gardner

29. Demon-Haunted World / Carl Sagan

30. From Roger's Version / John Updike

31. Conclusions and Implications, From The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God / J. L. Mackie

32. Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story / Michael Shermer

33. That Undiscovered Country / A. J. Ayer

34. Thank Goodness! / Daniel C. Dennett

35. From A Farewell to God, A Personal Word / Charles Templeton

36. Why There Almost Certainly Is No God / Richard Dawkins

37. From God: the Failed Hypothesis, Cosmic Evidence / Victor Stenger

38. Working Definition of Religion, From "Breaking Which Spell?" / Daniel C. Dennett

39. If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted? / Elizabeth Anderson

40. There Is No God / Penn Jillette

41. End of the World Blues / Ian McEwan

42. What About God? From Dreams of a Final Theory / Steven Weinberg

43. "Imagine There's No Heaven": A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen / Salman Rushdie

44. Koran / Ibn Warraq

45. In the Shadow of God, From The End of Faith / Sam Harris

46. Can an Athiest Be a Fundamentalist? From Against All Gods / A. C. Grayling

47. How (and Why) I Became an Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali.